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328 p. : green cover, embossed in black. Cover has small rectangular illustration of rural village across top.
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Inscribed in ink across front endpapers" "This book is the property of J. F. Ryan, Linton"; "J.F. Ryan, Linton".
192 p. : yellow cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front. Title and author's name printed on spine.
fiction
fiction, westerns, chester wills
192 p. : red cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front cover. Title and author's printed on spine.
fiction
fiction, westerns, william hopson
253 p. : green cover, original dust jacket removed. Title and author's name hand printed on spine.
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fiction, westerns, hal dunning
160 p. ; blue cover, title and author's name in gold on spine
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fiction, westerns, cherry wilson
251 p. :embossed red cover. Title and author's name in black on spine.
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Western
fiction, westerns, clarence e. mulford
382 p. : plain red cover, title and author's name embossed on front and spine in black.
fiction
Western romance fiction
fiction, westerns, zane grey
314 p. : grey-green cover, title and authors' names embossed in red.
fiction
Ten short stories set in the French Revolution.
fiction, french revolution, agnes castle, egerton castle
543 p. : ill. (col. plates)
fiction
Romance set against the background of the aftermath of the American Civil War.
fiction, romance, american civil war, ellen glasgow
315 p. : dark grey cover, embossed with gold, pattern of small stars (now very faded).
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Crime fiction.
fiction, s. s. van dine
254 p. : plain green cover
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Murder-mystery.
fiction, charles kingston, crime fiction
216 p. : plain red cover
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Murder-mystery.
fiction, marion mainwaring, crime fiction
308 p. : plain khaki/green cover
Sea stories.
short stories, fiction, w. clark russell
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.
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historical fiction, m. hartley
312 p. : includes preface with letters written by Charles Dickens. Plain green cover
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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.
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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.
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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.
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fiction, margaret peterson
191 p. : plain blue cover. Original dust jacket has been removed, title and author's name hand printed on spine.
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fiction, , anne hepple dickinson
270 p.
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fiction
382 p. : plain dark blue cover, title embossed in gold on spine.
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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.
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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.
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riichard gordon, fiction, humour
188 p. ; plain black cover.
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richard gordon, fiction, humour
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