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Little Rivers
Henry Van Dyke
Little Rivers
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Toronto: Copp Clark, 1912
Hardcover. 348 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Dark blue cloth. Gilt titles with green, white, and gilt decorations are all bright. Previous owner's stamp on front pastedown. Binding is square. Hinges tight. A very pretty copy.
A History of the War of 1812 Between Great Britain and the United States of America
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Toronto: Morang & Co., 1905. First edition
Hardcover. 372 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Brown leather with gilt titles and rules. Ex-library markings on title page only.
Early historical account of the War of 1812 by New Brunswick historian James Hannay, originally published 1905.
The History of the Sigma Chi Fraternity 1955 to 1980
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Sigma Chi Fraternity, 1990
Hardcover. 554 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Glossy blue boards with gilt titles, rules, and decorations. All edges gilt. Signed and inscribed by the author.
The Norman Shield: A Lifelong Commitment to Sigma Chi 1995-97 (Reference Manual of the Sigma Chi Fraternity)
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Sigma Chi Fraternity, 1995. Thirty-fifth edition
Hardcover. 176 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Dark blue leather boards with gilt titles, rules, and decorations.
The History of the Sigma Chi Fraternity 1955 to 1980
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Sigma Chi Fraternity, 1990
Hardcover. 554 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE
Glossy blue boards with gilt titles, rules, and decorations. All edges gilt. Signed and inscribed by the author. Small scratch to gilt on top edge of text block.
Travels of a Victorian Photographer: The Photographs of Francis Frith
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London: The Folio Society, 2003. 3rd printing
Hardcover. 298 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Book is FINE in a VERY GOOD slipcase, with a few light scuffs and a shallow dent.
Collection of Francis Frith's pioneering Victorian photographs of Egypt, the Holy Land, and rural Britain, with historical commentary.
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War (2 volume set)
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London: The Folio Society, 2008
Hardcover. 1030 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Grey cloth with silver gilt titles and red, silver, black decorations. Both volumes are in Fine condition. Slipcase is in Very Good condition with a bit of scuffing to bottom edge.
Comprehensive history of Allied deception operations in the Second World War, from double agents to the elaborate cover plans for D-Day.
Pax Britannica (3 volume set)
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London: The Folio Society, 1992
Hardcover. ENG

Condition: FINE
All three volumes are in Fine condition. Slipcase is Very Good, with a small spot of sticker removal damage.
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
Noble E. Cunningham Jr. (Foreword by Larry K. Menna, illustrated by Chris Calle)
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992
Hardcover. 414 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Full navy blue leather with gilt titles and decorations. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Yellow silk bookmark sewn in. Yellow silk moire endpapers. Publisher's note laid in. Gilt on lower edge of text block is a bit scuffed.
Found on the Hills
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London: The Religious Tract Society
Hardcover. 127 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Blue cloth with gilt titles, and brightly coloured decorations. Undated but Sunday school inscription dated 1892 on reverse of frontispiece. Binding is quite loose, with gatherings still attached but a bit displaced. Hinges are sound.
The Life of Major-General William H. Harrison, Ninth President of the United States
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston
Hardcover. 465 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Undated, but ca. 1905. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, red cover titles, red rules and decorations, blindstamped decorations, and a pastedown illustration to front cover. Pastedown has a small scrape. Binding is square, hinges are tight. Pages slightly tanned. Elegant calligraphic owner's signature dated 1908 to front free endpaper.
The Haunted Bookshop
Christopher Morley
The Haunted Bookshop
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925
Hardcover. 289 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD+
Red calf leather with gilt titles and decorations. Leather is worn at tips and folds of spine. Spine is slanted. Previous owner's name on half-title. Binding is a bit loose, but hinges are sound.
Brooklyn bookseller Roger Mifflin discovers that a missing book is at the center of a sinister wartime plot, in the sequel to Parnassus on Wheels.
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 1920
Hardcover. 687 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Limp leather binding (flexible green suede) with gilt titles and black decorations. Frontispiece (portrait of author) + 6 b&w plates. Suede is browning along edges and spine. Pages are slightly tanned, with a bit of scattered faint foxing. Binding is sound and tight. No tears to leather or to pages. No writing/markings. No date, but probably ca. 1920s.
A young Exmoor farmer falls for the beautiful Lorna Doone, held captive by a family of outlaws, in Blackmore's classic Victorian romance of the moors.
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron (Landscape Edition of the Poets)
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London / Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1885
Hardcover. 576 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Red morocco leather. Embossed black and gilt ruled borders and decoration repeated in blind on back cover. Raised bands. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Undated but ca. 1880s. Illustrated with landscape borders on all text pages, 3 steel engraved plates. Slight rubbing to gilt titles on front cover. Previous owner's name on first blank page dated 1888. Pages are slightly tanned with scattered foxing, and a dime-sized brown stain to the middle of p. 214/215 which has stained through several additional pages.
The British Neptune, or a History of The Royal Navy From The Earliest Periods to The Present Time
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London: Richard Phillips, 1807
Hardcover. 490 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Brown leather with red leather spine label and faded gilt title. Frontis + plates + foldout map are all complete. Some sections slightly displaced but still tight. Spotting to edges of text block, stains to endpapers and first few pages. 490 pages + foldout map + 6 pages of publisher ads at back.
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott (edited by Robert Ford)
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
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London: Collins' Clear-Type Press
Hardcover. 928 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Burgundy padded leather with gilt titles. Gilt inner dentelles and page edges. Cloth-jointed endpapers. Frontis b&w portrait of Scott + 26 plates. Spot of water damage and several shallow dents to front cover. Light shelfwear. Previous owner's name on first blank page.
Proverbial Philosophy: in Four Series, Now First Complete Including the Fiftieth Edition of the First Two Series (Moxon's Popular Poets series)
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London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1880
Hardcover. 456 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Red cloth with gilt titles, elaborate black and gold decorations, bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Undated, but circa 1880. Previous owner's name in small ink stamp on front free endpaper. Spine has a bit of wear to corners and one short tear to top edge.
Aims and Objects of the Toronto Humane Society
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Toronto: William Briggs, 1888. Facsimile edition
Hardcover. 231 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Undated modern facsimile reprint of the 1888 edition. Rust brown cloth with black decorations and gilt titles. Front board has a scratch. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
A Texas Cow Boy or, Fifteen Years on the Deck of a Spanish Pony. Taken from Real Life
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Time-Life Books, 1980. Facsimile reprint
Hardcover. 316 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Classic first-person memoir of cowboy life in the American West, originally published in 1885 by a working Texas cowhand.
The Horse in Ireland
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Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1991. First edition
Hardcover. 336 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Includes references, bibliography, index. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is #20. Signed by the author. Quarter bound in dark blue leather with water-silk sides, gilt top, head and tail bands, gold blocked spine. In matching buckram bound slipcase.
History of the horse in Ireland, beginning with early Celtic mythology, right through to modern day breeding and racing.