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308 p. : plain khaki/green cover
"Linton Free Library" inscribed in ink across inside of front cover. Book plate indicating that book was previously in another collection, pasted to front cover" 'Mullen's Library, 29 & 31 Collins Street East, Melbourne'.
Sea stories.
360 p. : embossed blue-green cover with pattern of leaves/tree turnks.
fiction
maud diver, fiction
405 p. : brown cover, Heinemann logo imprinted on front and on spine. Image of ship on spine.
fiction
historical fiction, m. hartley
312 p. : includes preface with letters written by Charles Dickens. Plain green cover
fiction
Volume I contains three stories: 'A wife's story' ; My first and last novel ; 'Annie and her master'
fiction, emily jolly, short stories
384 p. : decorative front cover, embossed with gold and silver, images of flowers and leaves.
fiction
Novel set against the background of the American Civil War.
mrs mary ann goodfellow [linton librarian], fiction, american civil war
296 p.
fiction
Volume contains two stories: 'Daisy's Trials' and 'I do not love you'.
fiction, emily jolly, short stories
301 p. : green cover embossed with pattern of leaves. Cloth on spine missing, title hand written along spine.
fiction
fiction, captain p. c. wren (percival christopher wren)
240 p. : frontispiece illustration - map of central Africa. Green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, with images of butterflies clustering around a bright light.
fiction
Detective fiction set in Tanganyika.
fiction, kenneth austin dobson, africa - fiction
302 p.
fiction
The story of Takao Ono, "a picaresque and enterprising rascal'.
fiction, john paris, japanese culture
222 p. : brown cover. Section of original dust jacket pasted to front cover, image of a woman in ballet dress, with a man behind her playing a grand piano.
fiction
Romance fiction.
fiction, ann deering
457 p. (1 vol., plays divided into parts 1 & 2). Decorative brown cover embosssed with black, cover title 'Sheridan Knowles Dramatic Works'.
fiction
Volume contains sixteen plays by the Irish dramatist James Sheridan Knowles (1784-1862).
literature, dramatic works, plays, james sheridan knowles
253 p. : embossed red cover.
fiction
fiction, margaret peterson
191 p. : plain blue cover. Original dust jacket has been removed, title and author's name hand printed on spine.
fiction
fiction, , anne hepple dickinson
270 p.
fiction
fiction
382 p. : plain dark blue cover, title embossed in gold on spine.
fiction
Fictional account of the life of Haitian resistance leader, and later Governor General, Pierre Dominique Toussaint L'Oeuverture (c.1746-1803).
harriet martineau, toussaint l'oeuverture, biographical fiction
319 p. : dark blue/green cover, embossed with floral design. Title and author's name embossed in gold on cover and spine.
fiction
fiction, adam badeau
282 p. : dark green/black cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front. Title and author's name hand printed on spine.
fiction
fiction, jean barre, eda kathleen bridgman
190 p. : plain black cover, title and author's name embossed in gold on spine. Cartoon-like images of a doctor in white on spine.
fiction
riichard gordon, fiction, humour
188 p. ; plain black cover.
fiction
richard gordon, fiction, humour
318 p. : red cover. Title and author's name embossed in black on front cover.
fiction
fiction, winifred graham
312 p. : plain red cover, title and author's name embossed in gold on spine.
fiction
fiction, william gerhardi
312 p.: green cover, embossed with image of man in top hat being pursued by a gorilla.
fiction
fiction, bertram gayton
444 p. : plain red cover, title embossed in black.
fiction
fiction, ellen glasgow
255 p. : plain black cover
fiction
peter greave, fiction
288 p.
fiction
james grant, fiction
![Book - Novella, Grant, James, The Royal regiment : and other novelettes, [n.d.] [1879?]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/668cddfe68577e8bf7508b94/item-media/668dca1c4d1cc58ad9ca29e2/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
305 p.
Includes 'The Royal regiment', 'The secret marriage', 'The student's story', 'Clare Thorne's temptation', 'The great sea serpent' and 'Military folk lore'.
james grant, fiction
256 p. : plain red cover
fiction
izak goller, fiction
172 p. : plain green cover
fiction
richard gibson, fiction
306 p. : red cover
fiction
george griffith, fiction
![Book - Short stories, Grant, James, The Queen's cadet : and other tales, 1875 [This reprint 1890s]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/668b696d79518f8e24a9872d/item-media/668dc59e4d1cc58ad9c9ac41/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
320 p. : Bound in calico which is printed with product advertisements
james grant, fiction, t. craig [bookbinder], short stories
217 p. : red cover, with image of man and woman in evening dress, man smoking a cigar.
fiction
nathaniel gubbins, fiction
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