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A hardcover in fine condition. The black boards are clean and unmarked, with gilt lettering to the spine. The dust jacket is clean and free of marks. The pages are clean and bright throughout. The copy comes from a private library. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit, published by Random House, New York, in 2010. The book tells the true story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic distance runner who served with the 307th Heavy Bombardment Group, survived a plane crash in the Pacific, and endured years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. 473 pages with maps and illustrations. This copy is a later printing, with the number line beginning at 4.

Softcover in fine condition. The covers are clean, with no creasing to the spine and light shelf wear around the edges. Pages are clean and appear unread. A tidy copy. Modern Man in Search of a Soul. C. G. Jung. Translated by W. S. Dell and Cary F. Baynes. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harvest paperback. First published 1933. 244 pages. Eleven essays on analytical psychology by the Swiss psychiatrist, most first given as lectures, including Archaic Man, The Stages of Life, Freud and Jung-Contrasts, and The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man.

First edition, first printing softcover in new condition. The covers are crisp and unmarked, with no creasing to the spine or edges. Pages are clean and free of marks throughout. Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Jenna Butler. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2018. Wayfarer series. Printed and bound in Canada. Butler’s sea voyage connects the endangered Canadian boreal forest with the Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, blending travelogue with a poetic meditation on place. She writes of travelling through the fertile height of the Arctic summer. Winner of the AUPresses Book, Jacket & Journal Show (Poetry and Literature). Jenna Butler is a professor, poet and essayist who lives on an organic farm in northern Alberta.

A beautiful hardcover in very good condition. The red cloth boards are clean and very well preserved, with an elaborate blind-stamped panel to the front board that remains crisp and well defined, including the motto Diev et mon droit and the initials H R. Gilt titling to the spine are bright and fully legible. The binding is firm and tight. Pages are clean, free of marks, and retain their deckle edges. The frontispiece reproduces R. Caxton Woodville's painting The Charge of the British at Quebec and is protected by a tissue guard printed with a vignette of the Wolfe and Montcalm monument. A clean, tight book of an attractive binding. The Great Events by Famous Historians is an ambitious multivolume set presenting world history through the original narratives of noted historians, arranged chronologically. Edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., with associate editors Charles F. Horne, Ph.D., and John Rudd, LL.D., and published by The National Alumni, New York, 1905. This volume covers 1716 to 1775, with accounts of Wolfe's victory at Quebec, the exile of the Acadian Neutrals, the usurpation of Catherine II in Russia, and the intellectual revolt of Germany, in which Goethe's Werther aroused Romanticism. Each volume in the set carries a facsimile binding of a historically significant original. The binding of this volume reproduces that of the copy of Assertio Septem Sacramentorum presented by Henry VIII to Pope Leo X.

UK softcover edition in fine condition. Covers are clean and unmarked, and the pages are free of marks throughout. A fine, clean copy. Part of the Scottish Histories series, which follows the events behind Scotland's history from early times to the union with England. Published by Waverley Books (Geddes & Grosset), New Lanark, Scotland. A concise biography of Mary Queen of Scots in ten chapters, covering her early reign, her marriages, her imprisonment at Loch Leven, and her final years.

A beautiful hardcover in fine condition. The navy blue cloth boards are clean and square, with an elaborate blind-stamped decorative panel to the front board that remains crisp and well-defined. Gilt titling and ornamental devices to the spine are bright and fully legible. The binding is firm and tight with no looseness at the joints. Pages are bright throughout, free of marks, stamps, or annotations, with only light toning consistent with age. Several signatures remain unopened, their folded page edges never separated by letter opener or paper knife, meaning those sections have never been read. We have left them intact. The Great Events by Famous Historians is an ambitious 20-volume set presenting world history through the original narratives of noted historians, arranged chronologically. Edited by Rossiter Johnson, LL.D., with associate editors Charles F. Horne, Ph.D., and John Rudd, LL.D., and published by The National Alumni, New York. This volume covers the period 1661 to 1715. Each volume in the set carries a facsimile binding of a historically significant original; the binding of this volume reproduces a celebrated Grolier binding held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, executed in the shop of Aldus Manutius, the Scholar Printer of Venice. The Grolier motto "Io Grolierii et Amicorum" ("For Grolier and his Friends") is reproduced just as it appears on the original.