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Product Code: 135
Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
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Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $24.99
Weight (lbs): 1.2 LB
Description: Average "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "The apparition walked backward from him: and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open. It beckoned Scrooge to approach, which he did. When they were within two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up its hand, warning him to come no nearer. Scrooge stopped.
Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory. "...continues
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Product Code: 123
Title: Anne of Green Gables
Author: L. M. Montgomery
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Size Range: medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5x5.5x1.25
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $24.99
Weight (lbs): 1.2 LB
Description: Average sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Anne of Green Gables has been translated into more than 60 languages and has been adapted as a play, a Broadway musical, three Hollywood films and several T.V. series. It was Lucy Maud Montgomery's first novel. Within a year of its publication in 1908 the book was reprinted six times in North America and five in England. Within five years the number of reprints had reached 32. For the rest of Montgomery's life and after her death in 1942, the book's popularity continued to grow."...continues
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Product Code: 615
Title: Anne of Windy Poplars
Author: L.M. Montgomery
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Size Range: Small
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 7.5 x 5.25 x 1"
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $32.00
Weight (lbs): 1 LB
Description: Published on 1936, this small sized book box was written by one of Canada's most beloved authors, Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Product Code: 403
Title: Antique - Extra Large
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Size Range: Xlarge
Dimensions (HxWxD)":
Product Line:antique
Price ($US): $44.00
Weight (lbs): 2 LB
Description: XLarge, 'textbook' sized box made from books published prior to 1960 or antique in appearance. The kind of book that has been sitting on someone's shelf for over forty years. Definitely used in appearance with obvious signs 'age' but never tattered. Inscriptions and notations are common. Subject matter ranges from popular fiction to obscure reference books (eg. Encyclopedias). There is tremendous variety in title and color. (May be a composite of two or three books glued together to create a 'stack'.)
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Product Code: 402
Title: Antique - Large
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Size Range: Large
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Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $35.50
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large 'novel' or small 'textbook' sized box made from books published prior to 1960 or antique in appearance. The kind of book that has been sitting on someone's shelf for over forty years. Definitely used in appearance with obvious signs 'age' but never tattered. Inscriptions and notations are common. Subject matter ranges from popular fiction to obscure reference books (eg. Encyclopedias). There is tremendous variety in title and color.
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Product Code: 401
Title: Antique - Medium
Author: varies
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Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)":
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $27.00
Weight (lbs): 1.2 LB
Description: Medium 'novel' sized book published prior to 1960 or antique in appearance. The kind of book that has been sitting on someone's shelf for over forty years. Definitely used in appearance with obvious signs 'age' but never tattered. Inscriptions and notations are common. Subject matter ranges from popular fiction to obscure reference books (eg. Encyclopedias). There is tremendous variety in title and color.
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Product Code: 400
Title: Antique - small
Author: N/A
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Size Range: small
Dimensions (HxWxD)":
Product Line:antique
Price ($US): $22.00
Weight (lbs): 1 LB
Description: Small book published prior to 1960 or antique in appearance. The kind of book that has been sitting on someone's shelf for over forty years. Definitely used in appearance with obvious signs 'age' but never tattered. Inscriptions and notations are common. Subject matter ranges from popular fiction to obscure reference books (eg. Encyclopedias). There is tremendous variety in title and color.
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Product Code: 541
Title: Beau Geste
Author: Percival Christopher Wren
ISBN: 0-89577-632-4
Size Range: medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 9.25 x 6.25 x 1"
Product Line:One of a Kind
Price ($US): $31.00
Weight (lbs): 1 LB
Description: Published by Reader's Digest this medium sized book has an art deco feel to it. Nice silver lettering on the cover and spine.
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Product Code: 141
Title: Black Beauty
Author: Anna Sewell
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Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $24.99
Weight (lbs): 1.2 LB
Description: Average "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Anna Sewell was born in England in 1820. The world knows her for a single work, Black Beauty - the life and times of a black horse with a single sock and a star, from a happy youth to pleasant retirement and all the events in between.
In Sewell's time, England was "hell for horses". As a young girl, she and her mother often saw horses suffering in the towns and cities. Many horses were old, underfed, lame or sore. Often they were pulling overloaded carts in the hot sun or freezing rain and snow. Few people cared for the welfare of overworked horses. Most of them died from exhaustion while still in their harnesses. " ...continues
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Product Code: 1004
Title: Campfire and Battlefield - An Illustrated History of the Great Civil War - deluxe edition
Author: Rossiter Johnson
ISBN: 188877702
Size Range: xxlarge
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 13.5 x 11 x 2.2 inches
Product Line:Regular
Price ($US): $49.00
Weight (lbs): 4 LB
Description: This is a huge, beautiful book. Deluxe edition - blue fabric cover with gold embossed title and Civil War soldier on the front cover. Cover fabric is embossed with subtle decorative patterns. Reprinted from the 1894 original. An impressive coffee table centre in any home.
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Product Code: 634
Title: Charles Dickens As I Knew Him
Author: George Dolby
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Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 7.75 x 5.5 x 1.4"
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $48.00
Weight (lbs): 1.4 LB
Description: Very old volume nicely accented with black detail and gold lettering on the spine. This medium sized book box still has the library card and envelope inside.
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Product Code: 137
Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
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Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Bram Stoker, (1847 - 1912) was born in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from Trinity College in Pure Mathematics, he worked as a civil servant, a drama critic and, later, as business manager to actor Henry Irving. Stoker wrote many stories and novels but his best remembered is Dracula, written in 1897 and inspired by Vlad III. Dracula was a bestseller immediately. Many film versions of the story and contemporary novels about Vampires have followed." ...continues
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Product Code: 561
Title: From Here To Eternity
Author: James Joyce
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Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.75 x 1.9"
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $43.00
Weight (lbs): 1 LB
Description: Simply bound in green with gold lettering on the spine, this book was published in1951.
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Product Code: 124
Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN:
Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "CHARLES DICKENS was the most popular novelist of the 18th century. He was also one of the greatest humorists that England has produced. Charles was born at Landport in Portsea on Friday, the seventh of February, 1812. His father, John Dickens, a clerk in the navy-pay office, was stationed in the Portsmouth dockyard. The lady, Elizabeth Barrow, became his wife, and bore eight children, of whom two died in infancy. The eldest, Fanny (born 1810), was followed by Charles and then Alfred, (who died in childhood); Letitia, Harriet, (who died also in childhood); Frederick; Alfred Lamert; and Augustus."...continues
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Product Code: 114
Title: Holy Bible
Author: Cabalas Bible Association
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Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 9.25 x 6.25x 1.75"
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Back cover:
Gerard David; The Nativity with Donors and Sts. Jerome and Vincent 1515. Front: Detail-Christ Bearing the Cross; Resurrection, 1500 "
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Product Code: 515
Title: Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature
Author: Margaret Martignoni, Editor
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Size Range: XLarge
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 10.25 x 7.75 x 1.3"
Product Line:One of a Kind
Price ($US): $49.00
Weight (lbs): 1.8 LB
Description: Attractive Xlarge book with gold print and accents on the spine. Published in 1955, has some minor wrinkling on the back page.
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Product Code: 637
Title: International Library of Famous Literature, The
Author: Dr. Richard Garnett, Editor
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Size Range: xlarge
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 9.5 x 7 x 1.75"
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $99.00
Weight (lbs): 1.8 LB
Description: Published in 1900, this Xlarge antique book box is one of 20 volumes available. With leather on the spine and corners, this is a beautiful book that is well aged. The inside cover has the same attractive pattern as on the outer cover, and each book has a colour plate adjoining the title page. Click the "view back" button for a photo of the spine.
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Product Code: 121
Title: The Joy of Sex
Author: Christine Robinson
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Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Man?s greatest pleasures and disappointments are derived from sex. How is it then that the average person spends so little time actually studying the subject? The so called ?sexual revolution? of the 60?s came and went with relatively little enlighten- ment. If there is to be a sexual renaissance, it will need a guidebook. C.H. Robinson?s Joy of Sex is that guide. A visual tour of the sensual pleasures with detailed descriptions that both fulfill and delight. Who can be without such a thorough treatise on the art of love? Whether old or young, experienced or naive, this thought provoking review of the history of sexual activity will thrill and delight. Never before has so much been said about so much. Continued back flap"...continues
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Product Code: 136
Title: Kama Sutra
Author: Indra Ghandi
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Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $24.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Average "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Written in about the third century, by the mysterious sage Vatsyayana, Kama Sutra is the world?s classic study of the arts of love.
Introduced into the English world only in the nineteenth century, Kama Sutra has become synonymous with the craft of love making. But the original text was not restricted to the pursuit of physical pleasure. Instead the seven books attempt to define the entire relationship between a man and a woman. Of course in this illustrated version the emphasis is pleasure." ...continues
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Product Code: 654
Title: Kipling - A Selection of His Stories and Poems
Author: John Beecroft
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Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.75 x 1.25"
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $39.00
Weight (lbs): 1 LB
Description: This medium sized book box was published in 1956, and still has the original colourful dustjacket!
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Product Code: 150
Title: Moby Dick
Author: Herman Melville
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Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Biographical: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) "Some zealous lovers of the general literature of the age, as well as declared devotees to his own great genius, frequently petitioned him for the materials wherewith to frame his biography. They assured him, that life of all things was most insecure. He might feel many years in him yet; time might go lightly by him; but in any sudden and fatal sickness, how would his last hours be embittered by the thought, that he was about to depart forever, leaving the world utterly unprovided with the knowledge of what were the precise texture and hue of the first trowsers he wore. These representations did certainly touch him in a very tender spot, not previously unknown to the schoolmaster." --Pierre, Book XVII"...continues
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Product Code: 125
Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN:
Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 9.25 x 6.25 x 1.75"
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Likely the most influential writer in all of English literature and certainly the most important playwright of the English Renaissance, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The son of a successful middle-class glove-maker, Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582, he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. Around 1590, he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical acclaim quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England and part owner of the Globe Theater."...continues
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Product Code: 106
Title: Shakespeare - The Complete Works
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN:
Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Ben Jonson wrote of Shakespeare, ?He was not of an age, but for all time,? The finest of English poets, William Shakespeare
is the keenest observer of human frailty and potential. His works define the human spirit. The plays are traditionally divided into histories, comedies and tragedies. In this volume we have instead divided Shakespeare?s output into earlier and later periods. The early period, from
1590 to 1599 is characterized by the chronicle histories which reflect the " ...continues
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Product Code: 100
Title: The Lord of The Rings
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
ISBN:
Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads "John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973). J. R. R. Tolkien was born on 3rd January 1892 in the Orange Free State. At the age of four his family moved to England for "home leave". After his father's death from rheumatic fever, the family (mother; Mary Suffield and younger brother Hilary) settled in Sarehole, south of Birmingham." ...Continues
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Product Code: 119
Title: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN:
Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, ""We can enter in a minute," he gasped, darting out again. "Where is the candle? I doubt if we could strike a match in that atmosphere. Hold the light at the door and we shall get them out, Mycroft. Now!" With a rush we got the poisoned men and dragged them out onto the landing. Both of them were blue lipped and insensible, with swollen, congested faces and protruding eyes."...continues
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Product Code: 598
Title: A. P. Herbert
Author: The Water Gipsies
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Size Range: small
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 7.5 x 5.25 x 1.4"
Product Line:Antique
Price ($US): $29.00
Weight (lbs): 1 LB
Description: Small sized bookbox published in 1930.
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Product Code: 130
Title: Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN:
Size Range: Medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $24.99
Weight (lbs): 1.2 LB
Description: Average "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "NOTICE: PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR. EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. "...continues
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Product Code: 122
Title: Treasure Island
Author: Robert Lewis Stevenson
ISBN:
Size Range: medium
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.25
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $24.99
Weight (lbs): 1.2 LB
Description: Average size book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "A treasure map, buried gold and mutiny on the high seas - these are the ingredients of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story that has stirred the imagination of generations of readers. When the mysterious "Captain" bellows his pirate songs at the Admiral Benbow and Old Pew, a soft spoken but grotesque creature, comes tapping with his stick, young Jim Hawkins knows something odd, something dangerous and something secret is stirring."...continues
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Product Code: 111
Title: War and Peace
Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN:
Size Range: Large
Dimensions (HxWxD)": 8.8 x 5.5 x 2
Product Line:Premium
Price ($US): $29.99
Weight (lbs): 1.7 LB
Description: Large, thick "novel" sized book with colorful graphics inside and out. Fly leaf reads, "Translations from Russian to English is difficult at any time, but it is particularly difficult for the Rostof family that Tolstoy portrays with such intimacy in his classic WAR AND PEACE. It has been necessary to simplify Tolstoy?s use of Russian Vernacular. For each character I have chosen only one form of any given name, rather than the seven to twelve diminutives that Tolstoy refers to in the original. Similarly, terms of endearment, so common in Russian speech, must be translated as to their intent rather than with regard to their literal meaning." ...continues
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