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By: Becke, Louis
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1913
Seller ID: 93045
Condition: Good
[Third Impression]. Title page printed in green and black. Original fine-ribbed green cloth, vignette of palm tree on front board in gilt, lettered in gilt. Spine lettering dulled/oxidised, corners scuffed, John Bull award label tipped on to front endpapers, good. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1902
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02095
Condition: Good
Early C20th rebinding in red binder's cloth. Trace of label on front board, spine lightly sunned, foxing, good. Utilitarian binding: a good reading copy of a scarce title by this Australian novelist. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03593
Condition: Good
Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Some light speckling on cloth, paper faintly browned on page edges, foxing and Sunday School plate on front endpapers, otherwise good. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Sydney, Alexander Lindsay: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91005
Condition: Good
First Edition, Australander Library. Rebound with red cloth spine over blue marbled boards, title hand-written on paper label on spine. Boards edges rubbed, Sydney bookseller's stamp on title page, good. Becke's first novel, published in his native Australia. Scarce. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87141
Condition: Fair
Title page printed in red and black. Spine a little darkened, boards sunned on edges, small nicks to cloth on spine ends, signature (1908) on front free endpaper, fair/good only. A collection of stories mostly with South Sea settings. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1914
Seller ID: VN0449
Condition: Very Good
Nelson's Library (pocket edition). Undated (c1914). Frontispiece. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 91019
Condition: Good
By Reef and Palm (1894). First Edition, Pseudonym Library: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. With an Introduction by the Earl of Pembroke. Bound with: His Native Wife (1895) First English Edition, Century Library: T. Fisher Unwin, nd [1896]. Frontispiece and decorated title page. Two volumes bound as one in white parchment over red silk covered boards, gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Corners rubbed, boards a little marked, spine a trifle darkened, light foxing, initials and small newspapers cutting on title page of By Reef, good. Becke's first book (a collection of stories) and third book (a s... View more info
By: Becke, Louis & Walter Jeffery
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89144
Condition: Very Good
Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, tiny nick at foot of spine, faint foxing, very good. Australian and South Pacific tales. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1899
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86137
Condition: Very Good
Original pale green cloth, lettered in gilt with photograph of two small child paddling in water, inset on front board. Spine lightly sunned, a little foxing, otherwise very good. Stories and sketches include: Point Despair by H. B. MARRIOTT-WATSON, The Larrikin of Diamond Creek by E. W. HORNUNG, My Friends the Cannibals by Hume NISBET, Lenchen by IOTA, A Sexagenarian Idyll by Oliphant SMEATON, An Inside Station by Douglas SLADEN, The Old Scenes by Mrs Campbell PRAED, Last Cruise of John Maudesley by Louis BECKE. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 82071
Condition: Very Good
Contains: Tales of a Steam Hotel by C. J. Cutcliffe HYNE. 6 adventure/crime stories. The Romance of the Secret Service Fund by Fred M. WHITE. 6 spy stories. Short stories include: The Stolen Cigar Case by A. C---n D--le by Bret HARTE, The Haunted Inheritance by E. NESBIT, The Outlaw of Falkensteig & D'Aubeville's Enterprise by Rafael SABATINI, The Adventures of a Gladstone Bag & The Lost Piper by Robert BARR, A Bottle of Water by Edgar JEPSON, Susani by Louis BECKE, Under False Colours by Ernest G. HENHAM. Articles include: How Will the World End? by Herbert C. FYFE. Original grey-green cloth,... View more info
By: Various Authors: John Oxenham, Allen Upward, Louis Becke
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, W. & R. Chambers: 1906
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0614
Condition: Very Good
Contains: The Tweny-Second Karl by George Frederick Turner. Complete serialisation. A Stormy Morning by Eva Napier of Magdala. Complete serialisation. Numerous novelettes and short stories by minor writers. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine.A few light marks, front free endpaper removed, otherwise good. A large heavy book which will require additional postage. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91047
Condition: Very Good
Short stories include: Ben by M. P. SHIEL, Skittles by Richard MARSH, The Excellent Joys of Youth & Cares of a Curate by Mary E. MANN, 'Tis an Ill Flight Without Wings by John Oliver HOBBES, Apinoka of Apimama by Louis BECKE, The Missing Hero by Roy HORNIMAN. Articles include: The Literary Regimen & Of a Book Unwritten by H. G. WELLS, Some Confessions of an Illustrator by Harry FURNISS, The Commercial Future of Palestine by Israel ZANGWILL. Original pale green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green on boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly marked, a little foxing, very good. A heavy... View more info
By: Various Authors: Walter Besant, Louis Becke etc
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Leisure Hour: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04170
Condition: Good
Contains: The Alabaster Box by Walter BESANT. Complete serialisation. Illustrated. Tom Wallis: a Tale of the South Seas by Louis BECKE. Complete serialisation. Illustrated. Short stories include: A Flight by Tighe HOPKINS, A Real Treasure by Leslie KEITH. Numerous other short stories and articles by minor authors. Contemporary maroon leather over marbled boards, closed split on one hinge, otherwise good. The Leisure Hour -- for a long time a rather staid, old-fashioned journal -- revamped its format towards the end of the century, using a more modern typeface, adding regular articles on chess ... View more info
