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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.
Stephen Hawking's Universe
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New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1985. Book club
Softcover. 158 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Thomas Paine
A. J. Ayer
Thomas Paine
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New York: Atheneum, 1988. First US edition
Hardcover. 195 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD+
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Includes index.
It Could Have Been Worse
Peggy Holmes & Joy Roberts
It Could Have Been Worse
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Don Mills, ON: Collins, 1980
Hardcover. 190 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Surface damage to front endpaper, apparently from the removal of previous owner's bookplate. Dust jacket has a bit of light edgewear. Not price clipped.
Paul Nizan: Committed Literature in a Conspiratorial World
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972
Hardcover. 233 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Light offsetting and foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, with one tiny closed tear. Binding is square and tight. No writing/markings.
The Second Seduction
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Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition
Hardcover. 191 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / FINE
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
India Under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi
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Hillside, NJ: Enslow, 1989
Hardcover. 104 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Glossy pictorial boards show a small scuff to top edge of back panel. Binding is tight and square. No writing/markings. No dust jacket.
Includes bibliography, index.
Intended for Grades 4-8.
In Search of Butch Cassidy
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London: Constable, 1979
Hardcover. 294 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Boswell's Children: The Art of the Biographer
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Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1992
Hardcover. 268 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Top corner slightly bumped. Dust jacket has light foxing to reverse. Not price clipped. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
Gorbals Voices, Siren Songs
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London: Pan, 1991
Softcover. 209 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Light spine crease. Shelfwear. Pages are tanned. No writing/markings.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China
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New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1992
Softcover. 524 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Pages are slightly tanned at edges. Spine is not creased. No writing/markings.
Royal Web: The Story of Princess Victoria and Frederick of Prussia
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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982
Hardcover. 350 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Dust jacket is price clipped, foxed along inside top edge. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
Includes genealogy charts, references, bibliography, index.
What Is an Editor?  Saxe Commins at Work
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978
Hardcover. 243 pages. ENG

Condition: NEAR FINE / VERY GOOD
Faint foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket has a short tear to top edge. No writing/markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Saxe Commins was Senior Editor at Random House from 1933 until 1958. Includes extensive extracts from Commins notes, reports, letters etc. from his work with many major writers (Eugene O'Neill, William Faulkner, Wiliam Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, WH Auden, James Michener, Isak Dinesen, etc.)
Canadian Obituary Record: A Biographical Dictionary of Canadians Who Died in 1988
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Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1989. First edition
Hardcover. 213 pages. ENG

Condition: FINE / VERY GOOD
Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight.
Making of a Peacemonger: The Memoirs of George Ignatieff
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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985. First edition
Hardcover. 265 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / FINE
Old bookstore stamp on front free endpaper. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.
Covers his career at the United Nations and in arms control negotiations during the Cold War.
Lutiapik
Betty Lee
Lutiapik
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975. First edition
Hardcover. 237 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD / FAIR
Old bookstore stamp on front free endpaper. Lower spine bumped. Binding is sound, hinges tigh. No writing or highlighting to text. Dust jacket is partially worn through at front fold with a faint dampstain, top edge chipped at top of spine, edges worn.
Story of Dorothy Knight who spent a year as a nurse at Lake Harbour, 1957-58. Lake Harbour is the former name of Kimmirut, a small, traditional Inuit hamlet located on the southern coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada
Herbstmilch: Lebenserinnerungen einer Bauerin
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Munich: Piper Verlag GmbH, 1987
Softcover. 154 pages. DEU

Condition: NEAR FINE
Faint stress crease to back cover. Otherwise as new.
Memoir of a Bavarian farm woman's life of poverty and hard labour on the land in 20th-century Germany, published in German.
The End of Your Life Book Club
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Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2012
Hardcover. 352 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD / VERY GOOD
Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Dust jacket front flap has a corner creased.
Story of a son and his dying mother who form a book club that brings them together.
Report from the Beria Reserve: The Protest Writings of Valentyn Moroz, a Ukrainian Political Prisoner in the USSR
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Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1974
Softcover. 162 pages. ENG

Condition: GOOD
Pages are quite tanned. Covers are rubbed. Spine creased. Binding is sound. No writing/markings.
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys
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New York: William Morrow, 2005
Softcover. 352 pages. ENG

Condition: VERY GOOD
Very faint spine crease. No writing/markings.