Search Results: Literature from Bytown Bookery

London, England: Edward Arnold. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. Orange cloth covers, with black writing, corners and spin ends bumped. Splash stain on cover and fore-edge. Spine sunned with small stain on back paste down. Clean interior, tightly bound. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 330 pages .

McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited. Very Good+. 1990. Paperback. 0075497921 . A Trade Paperback with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked text. A small stain to the title page and cover edgewear, light rubbing. ; 8.90 X 6 X 0.90 inches .

Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1963. Hardcover. Green Hardcovers, yellow titles to the cover and spine. Very Good+ one name and a high school stamp to the front end paper & 2 pages with marks, otherwise an unmarked text. Tightly bound pages. Frontispiece and black & white illustrations. "Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 244 pages .

London, United Kingdom: MACMILLAN. Very Good+. 1960. Hardcover. Bright red Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. Very Good+, a sound binding, bright & unmarked pages. A crease to the introduction page. Sharp corners. The DJ is clipped and in Very Good condition. Cover rubbing and edgewear. "In the eighth in the Strangers and Brothers series Donald Howard, a young science Fellow is charged with scientific fraud and dismissed from his college. This novel, which became a successful West End play, describes a miscarriage of justice in the same Cambridge college which served as a setting for The Masters." ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 376 pages .

Maxi-Livres Profrance. Fine+. 1998. Paperback. 2743411376 . Mass Market in Fine condition. A sound binding, clean, unmarked pages with some age tanning. Un uncreased spine. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 320 pages .

Fides. Very Good. 1958. Paperback. A Very Good Paperback with a sound binding. There are five pages at the beginning of the book with underlining, the balance of the book is unmarked. Spine browning with cover edgewear. ; Collection Classiques Canadiens; Vol. 13; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 95 pages .

Gallimard. Very Good+. 1971. Paperback. French. Trade Paperback in Very Good++ condition. The binding is tight, pages are unmarked with ge tanning. Light cover wear with an uncreased spine, small sticker scar on the front cover. ; Folio # 1041; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 248 pages .

St. Martins. Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. 0029766605 . Black Hardcovers, bold gilt title to the spine. In Very Good+ condition, the binding is tight and the pages are unmarked. Sharp corners, with some spine end bumping and spotting to the top edges. "All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to Herriot's first collection, All Creatures Great and Small, and picks up as Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants---both two- and four-legged. "; 8.2 X 5.7 X 1.5 inches; 378 pages .

London, England: Jonathan Cape. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Light green Hardcovers, gilt titles to the spine. A Very Good++ book with a solid binding, bright, unmarked pages. The DJ is Very Good+ with light cover rubbing and edge wear. Light bumping to the bottom spine end, sharp corners. "It is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second requiem) is about to be sung to lay him to rest. In the choir is our hero, Hubert Anvil, an extremely ordinary ten-year-old boy with a faultless voice." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages .

W.W. Norton & Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1994. Trade Paperback. 0393963144 . Very good Trade Paperback, glossy covers, tightly bound with some highlighting through the book. In nice condition. "Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs. Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, the comtesse de Vionnet." ; 1.02 x 8.27 x 5.12 Inches; 543 pages .

Columbia University. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0231035047 . Bright pink linen covers with silver titles to the spine. In Near Fine condition, tightly bound with a bright, unmarked text. First Edition. The DJ is in Very Good conditon with some cover scuffing and edgewear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 280 pages .

Pocket Books, # 550238. Very Good. 1967. Mass Market Paperback. A Very Good Mass Market. Tightly bound, a name on front free end paper, otherwise a clean & unmarked copy. There is cover edgewear and rubbing. "Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husband’s devotion, Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves." ; 6.9 X 4.1 X 0.7 inches; 250 pages .

Bantam. Very Good. 1980. Mass_Market. 0553148508 . A Very Good Mass Market. Tightly bound, clean & unmarked pages with age tanning. Cover edgewear and rubbing. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 244 pages .

Random House UK. Fine+. 1982. Hardcover. 0370309162 . A Fine pictorial Hardcover. Tight, bright & unmarked. Fully illustrated. "A traveler visiting England, Scotland, and Wales encounters beautiful scenery, charming villages, and friendly citizens, including fictional and historical figures." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 48 pages .

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Thistledown Press. As New. 2001. Trade Paperback. 1894345304 . Trade paperback with French Flaps. As New condition. "Ariadne's Dream, Tess Fragoulis's first novel, is a lush, extravagant, and squalid tale of love, drugs, myths, sex, and death in Athens and the Greek Islands. Ariadne is a young Montreal Greek who, bored with her Canadian life, travels to Athens in search of change. After months of isolation, she finds it in the form of Yannis Vissinos, a musician and junkie who quickly dominates her heart, bank account, and life." ; 8.54 X 5.62 X 0.98 inches; 368 pages .

Faber and Faber Ltd. Very Good. 1988. Hardcover. 0802100112 . Tan / red Hardcovers in Very Good condition. Tight & bright with light fading to the top and bottom cover edges. The DJ is unclipped and in Very Good+ condition. "The classic of literary criticism from one of the world's greatest novelists. In seven independent, but closely related chapters, Milan Kundera presents his personal conception of the European novel, which he describes as 'an art born of the laughter of God." ; 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.8 inches; 165 pages .

Canada: New Canadian Library / McClleland & Stewart. Very Good+. 1992. Mass_Market. 0771098820 . A Very Good+ Mass Market. A tight binding with bright & unmarked pages. Very light spine hinge wear. "The superbly crafted stories collected in Alistair MacLeod’s As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories depict men and women acting out their “own peculiar mortality” against the haunting landscape of Cape Breton Island." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 176 pages .

Thames & Hudson Ltd. Very Good. 1979. Paperback. 050052002X . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition. This is a tightly bound copy with underlining to about 8 pages, otherwise unmarked. Glossy covers with light edgewear. ; 7.80 X 5.12 X 0.63 inches; 160 pages .

Toronto: Canada: Deneau Publishers, 1988. Very Good. 1988. Paperback. 0888791283 . Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition. Tightly bound with bright, unmarked pages. Some cover edgewear and rubbing. "Hail a cab in New York with Hugh MacLennan; wander through Casablanca with A. M. Klein; explore the heart of Paris with Morley Callaghan; join Gwendolyn MacEwan on the trail of Odysseus in Greece; see London as only Stephen Leacock could show it; and enjoy other fascinating journeys with Norman Levine, Charles Ritchie, Ethel Wilson, Mordecai Richler, George Woodcock, Malcolm Lowry and many more." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages .

Paris, France: Rombaldi. Very Good+. 1964. Hardcover. White faux leather covering with a Picasso sketch on the cover and gilt titles to the spine. In Fine condition with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked text. Spine sunning. Produced by Les Presses du Compagnonnage. The Guild Of Bibliophiles. Beautiful color sketches by Paulette. Humbert. Portrait of the author by Michel Cauvet. Published under the patronage of The Acamemie Suedoise and The Nobel Foundation. ; La Collection Des Prix Nobel De Litterature; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 217 pages .