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158 p. : green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, 'blurb' pasted inside front cover. Title and author's names printed in white on spine.
fiction
Illegible stamps indicate book was previously in another collection.
Western fiction
267 p. : plain brown cover, title and author's name in gold on spine.
fiction
American frontier stories.
fiction, historical fiction, dorothy m. johnson
159 p. : green cover, section of original dust jacket pasted to front, title and author's name in gold on spine.
fiction
Western genre.
fiction, westerns, john dodge
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.
fiction
fiction, westerns, hal dunning
160 p. ; blue cover, title and author's name in gold on spine
fiction
fiction, westerns, cherry wilson
251 p. :embossed red cover. Title and author's name in black on spine.
fiction
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
![Book - Short stories, Castle, Agnes et al, Romances in red, [n.d.] [1921?]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/67009653ae64745fc621a72e/item-media/67036e921101c8ea00b98db6/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
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
![Book - Novel, Riley, W, Windyridge, [n.d.] [1928?]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/670083d8ae64745fc6205628/item-media/670370151101c8ea00b9a9a6/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
328 p. : green cover, embossed in black. Cover has small rectangular illustration of rural village across top.
fiction
fiction, w. riley
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).
fiction
Crime fiction.
fiction, s. s. van dine
254 p. : plain green cover
fiction
Murder-mystery.
fiction, charles kingston, crime fiction
216 p. : plain red cover
fiction
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.
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
![Book - Novel, Roe, Rev. E. P, An original Belle, [n.d.] [First published in USA in 1885]](/media/collectors/641920217f0478323d8a47a8/items/66f893db4b37972efee4ed0f/item-media/67036fb41101c8ea00b9a304/item-fit-380x285.jpg)
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
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