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THE DAYS OF A LIFE.

By: "Norah" (Margaret Dixon McDougall)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Almonte, W. Templeman, Publisher: 1883

Seller ID: 000018550

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very good

Octavo, green cloth covers iwth gilt titles and decoration (harp, shamrocks, castle), 438 pages. Covers have some wear at corners and head and foot of spine, but still very nice. MacDougall was the daughter of an Irish Protestant family from Belfast, and a former school teacher and writer for the local press in her community of Pembroke, Ontario. She travelled around Ireland in 1882 and published her observations as "The Letters of 'Norah" in the Montreal paper "The Witness " As the author says in the preface to this book: "If the agitation in Ireland were not a living issu...
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LOW BRIDGE.

By: Abbott, Jane

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Company: 1935

Seller ID: 000015836

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very good

Color frontispiece plus 3 other illustrations by Walter Pyle. Octavo, light tan cloth with blue titles, 318 pages. Small spot at foot of spine. Dust jacket has chips missing, now protected in a mylar cover. "A mystery story for girls and boys with the scene laid on the Erie Canal during the days when that romantic artery teemed with the life blood of the nation."
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CITADEL IN SPRING. A Novel of Youth Spent At War

By: Agawa, Hiroyuki

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Tokyo, Kodansha International, c. 1990,: 1990

Seller ID: 11726

ISBN: 0870119605

Binding: Hardcover

Tokyo, Kodansha International, c. 1990,, 1990. Hardcover. Pages 254,octavo, hardcover. Translated by Lawrence Rogers. Maps on endpapers. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. World War II, Japan. 112706A ISBN: 0-87011-960-5
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UGETSU MONOGATARI. Tales of Moonlight and Rain

By: Akinari, Ueda

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (1974),: 1974

Seller ID: 12307

ISBN: 0048231169

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near fine

280 pages, octavo. Translated and edited by Leon Zolbrod. A complete English version of the eighteeenth-century Japanese collection of Tales of the Supernatural. Based on the first woodblock edition of 1776 with illustrations and introduction for western readers. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, endpapers a tad browned, else Fine. Dust jacket spine a bit sunned, Very Good. 020207A
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OUR GOLDEN IRONBURG. A Novel With Formulas

By: Aksyonov, Vassily

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, Ardis: (1989)

Seller ID: 000014989

ISBN: 0882335596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Ann Arbor: Ardis, (1989). Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Translated by Ronald E. Peterson. Octavo, 254 pages. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. "In this satire about events at a famous Soviet science institute, Aksyonov's verbal equivalent of jazz is at its most intense, as he disassembles and then re-combines the history and present of Ironburg, where physicists search for a mysterious particle..."
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JACK AND JILL: A Village Story.

By: Alcott,, Louisa May.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1917

Seller ID: 000017762

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very good

16mo (approx. 4 3/4" wide by 6 7/8" tall), brown cloth covers with black titles and decoration. 325 pages + 2 pages of ads for other Alcott books. A little light spotting on covers, still Very Good. 071202B
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RAILS UNDER MY BACK

By: Allen, Jeffery R

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2000),: 2000

Seller ID: 9304

ISBN: 0374246262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Pages 563, octavo, hardcover, first edition.111002A Book and dust jacket are in fine coondition.
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TEREZA BATISTA: Home From the Wars.

By: Amado, Jorge

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1975

Seller ID: 000015521

ISBN: 0394487524

Binding: hardover

Condition: Very Good+

Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Shelby. Stated first edition. Octavo, xiii [3], 3-551 [1]. Former owner inscription on front free endpaper. Unclippd dust jacket has printed price of $10.00. 112000A
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SHOW DOWN.

By: Amado, Jorge.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: (1988)

Seller ID: 000015714

ISBN: 0553051741

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Octavo, 422 pages. Translated by Gregory Rabassa. Former owner name and date on front free endpaper. Number line to "1". Dust jacket spine sunned. 040414B
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THE VIOLENT LAND.

By: Amado, Jorge.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1965

Seller ID: 000016326

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Near fine

Translated from the Portuguese (Terro do sem fim) by Samuel Putnam. Re-issed in 1965 with a new foreword by the author.Octavo, green cloth covers, viii [4] 336 pages plus colophon. Includes a short glossary of Brazilian terms. Former owner name, place and date on front free endpaper. Book is near Fine. Dust jacket has light wear at edges, Very Good. 092715A
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SHEPHERDS OF THE NIGHT.

By: Amado, Jorge.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1967

Seller ID: 000017062

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very good

Translated from the Portuguese by Harriet De Onis. Octavo, red-orange cloth covers, xii + 364 pages. Dust jacket has printed price of $5.95 on front flap, light browning at edges. 020117A
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AND ETERNITY

By: Anthony, Piers

Price: $8.00

Publisher: NY, William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1990): 1990

Seller ID: 9406

ISBN: 0688086888

Binding: Soft cover

NY, William Morrow and Co., Inc., (1990), 1990. Soft cover. advance reading copy, uncorrected bound galleys. Pages 457, softcover, advance reading copy, uncorrected bound galleys. Marker date on front cover, else Very Good. 112002A ISBN: 0-688-08688-8
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SANINE. A Russian Love Novel.

By: Artzibashev, Michael

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Three Sirens Press: (c. 1932)

Seller ID: 000018915

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Very good

With illustrations by Cameron Wright. Translated into English by Percy Pinkerton. Octavo, green cloth spine over textured tan color.. No. 854 of 1500 copies. Spine a bit dulled, some light wear at cover edges. Former owner name on front free endpaper. 328 pages. No dust jacket. 040414B
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MOSZKVA: regeny

By: Asch, Schalom (Sholom, Solem)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Budapest, Kaldor Konyvkiadovallalat: (1932)

Seller ID: 000016321

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Good +

Translated into Hungarian by Gergeley Janka. Octavo, boards with black spine; spine stamped in gilt; ribbon marker bound in. 361 pages, plus 1 page of contents. No. 29 of a limited edition, signed by Asch. Rear joint cracked, wear at head of spine and cover corners. The third novel of the trilogy of the Three Cities. 092715A
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FIRE IN BEULAH.

By: Askew, Rilla.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: (2001)

Seller ID: 000016643

ISBN: 0670888435

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine

Octavo, 376 pages. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. "A story that...unfolds against a volatile backdrop of oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings that climax in the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, during which whites burned the city's prosperous black section to the ground." 100104A
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THE PLAINS OF PASSAGE

By: Auel, Jean M

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Crown Publishers, Inc. (c. 1990),: 1990

Seller ID: 8970

ISBN: 0517580497

Binding: Hardcover

NY, Crown Publishers, Inc. (c. 1990),, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first printing. Pages 760,8vo, hardcover, first printing. Book is in Fine condition; dust jacket spine lightly sunned, Very Good. 4th novel in Earth's Children series. 070702A ISBN: 0-517-58049-7
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A MASQUE OF EXILE

By: Bacon, Martha

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Clarkson Potter, (1962),: 1962

Seller ID: 12277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

203 pages, octavo. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. "Set against the grey and chilly background of a depressed New England textile town just before the outbreak of WWII, the novel centers around the aristocratic but decaying Temple family, past and present." 061507A
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"NATIONAL VELVET" Golden Anniversary Edition

By: Bagnold, Enid.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc.: (1985)

Seller ID: 000017644

ISBN: 0688057888

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Fine

Illustrated by Ted Lewin. Octavo, 258 pages. Originally published in 1935. "A fourteen year old English girl wins a horse in a raffle, trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase." 021210D
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THE LAND WAS OURS. A Novel of the Great Plains

By: Bailey, Charles W

Price: $12.00

Publisher: (NY), HarperCollins, (1991),: 1991

Seller ID: 9278

ISBN: 0060391286

Binding: Hardcover

(NY), HarperCollins, (1991),, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first printing. Pages 386,octavo, hardcover, first printing. Book and dust jacket are in Very Good condition, VG/VG. Publicity sheet laid in. 101602A ISBN: 0-06-039128-6
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THE SECRET NAMES OF WOMEN

By: Barrett, Lynne

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press, 1999,: 1999

Seller ID: 11424

ISBN: 0887482872

Binding: Soft cover

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press, 1999,, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. first printing. Pages 152,trade paperback. first printing. Part of price sticker removed on rear cover, else Fine. 081006A ISBN: 0-88748-287-2
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Category: Fiction