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Fifty Years Ago (1888)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1888

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 00986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original crimson cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in black and gilt; black endpapers. 137 plates and woodcuts. Lightly marked on cloth, small chip to top corner of spine, a little foxing, good ++. Heavy item which will require some additional postage. A survey of life and society at the start of Queen Victoria's reign, amply illustrated.
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The Changeling (1898)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1899

Seller ID: 02768A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Later Piccadilly Novels style binding: original navy blue cloth, with repeated stylised flower design blindstamped on boards, lettered in gilt. Spine ends nicked, light scuffing, good. One of only a handful of Besant's later novels not be originally published by Chatto & Windus (the first edition was by Chapman and Hall in 1898). Chatto obtained the copyright in 1899.
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The Rise of Empire (1897)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Horace Marshall: 1897

Edition: 2nd Edition

Seller ID: VN1422

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The Story of Empire Series. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, a little faint foxing, faint browning on endpapers, good.
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For Faith and Freedom (1889)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1889

Seller ID: VN1485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New (ie First One-Volume) Edition. Original blue-grey cloth, blocked in black, green-and-white patterned endpapers. Light mark on front board, bookplate on front pastedown, very good.
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Armorel of Lyonesse. A Romance of To-day (1890)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1901

Seller ID: VN1498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two volumes bound as one in blue binder's cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Small split to cloth at head of lower hinge, lightly scuffed, undated signatures, bookplate on front pastedown, good. Todd [2702a/03] First issues; series half-titles bound in. A novel partly set in the Scilly Isles.
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To Call Her Mine Etc (1889)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1891

Seller ID: 04185A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Original grey-blue cloth, blocked in black; brown-and-white patterned endpapers. 1 cm nick at head of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, gilt a little rubbed on spine, otherwise good. Contains three "Christmas Books": To Call Her Mine, Katherine Regina & Self or Bearer. Katherine Regina originally appeared as a volume in Arrowsmith's Bristol Library: it is the story of a "type-writer girl" -- a new phenomenon at the end of the C19th as young, middle-class girls started to earn their own livings.
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Herr Paulus, His Rise, His Greatness, His Fall (1888)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890

Seller ID: VN2172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Late C19th rebinding in blue leather over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Extremities scuffed, otherwise good. The story of the unmasking of a fraudulent "medium".
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The Fourth Generation (1900)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1900

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 86079

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original light blue cloth, framed in darker blue and decorated with stylised lilies in paler blue; lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, inscription (1901) on front free endpaper, a little foxing, good. A late Besant novel on the themes of the corrupting influence of money, and of the actions of individuals on their descendants. Publisher's catalogue dated June 1900 bound in at end.
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Dorothy Forster (1884)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1928

Seller ID: VN2992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original scarlet glazed boards, lettered in black on spine. Some wear at foot of spine, otherwise good.
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To Call Her Mine Etc (1889)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1891

Seller ID: 95105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Late C19th white parchment over marbled boards, green leather title label on spine. A few light marks, light grazing, very good. Contains three "Christmas Books": To Call Her Mine, Katherine Regina & Self or Bearer. Katherine Regina originally appeared as a volume in Arrowsmith's Bristol Library: it is the story of a "type-writer girl" -- a new phenomenon at the end of the C19th as young, middle-class girls started to earn their own livings.
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In Deacon's Orders Etc (1895)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898

Seller ID: 89505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original light brown cloth on limp/light boards, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Light crease to front board, otherwise good+. A collection of some of Besant's sharpest stories: In Deacon's Orders, Peer and Heiress, The Equal Woman, The Shrinking Shoe, Quarantine Island, In Three Weeks, One and Two, A Night with Tantalus, The Solid Gold Reef Company Limited, To the Third and Fourth Generation & King David's Friend. Publisher's catalogue dated March 1898 bound in at end.
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Herr Paulus. His Rise, His Greatness, and His Fall (1888)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £195.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1888

Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes

Seller ID: 97013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Three volumes in original brown cloth; front boards blocked in blue, with raised designs in brown, lettered in gilt on spines; grey-and-white endpapers. A little scuffing, light foxing, a very good set. Sadleir [189]. The story of a fraudulent spiritualist. A heavy 3-volume set which will require additional postage.
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The Revolt of Man (1882)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1883

Seller ID: VN3465

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Seventh Edition. Original red cloth, illustrated in black on front board and lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Spine heavily sunned, areas on rear board lightly sunned, , small loss of cloth at head of spine, inner joint paper lightly cracked; fair only. A misogynistic fantasy in which men seize power in a world run by women.
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The Golden Butterfly (1876)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898

Seller ID: 01583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition. Later Piccadilly novels style: original blindstamped blue cloth. Corners scuffed, inscription (1899) on front free endpaper, very good. The comedy and adventures of a wealthy American in Europe.
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The Golden Butterfly (1876)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1893

Seller ID: 01916

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Original grey-blue cloth, decoratively blocked in black, lettered in gilt on spine; green-and-white flower-patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, a few faint marks, inscription (1894) on title page, endpapers faded, otherwise very good. The adventures of a wealthy American in Europe.
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With Harp and Crown (1875)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1915

Seller ID: 02016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Khaki Library Edition. Original khaki (brown) cloth, lettered in black. Corners bumped and lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. Produced during the First World War. Besant and Rice's third novel -- "the story of a woman's fidelity, patience and unmerited misfortune".
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The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1884

Seller ID: 03744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

New Edition. Late C19th maroon leather over crimson cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. A couple of tiny marks on cloth, light foxing on prelims, otherwise very good/near fine.
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With Harp and Crown (1875)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1887

Seller ID: VN1443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"Library Edition". Original blue cloth, decorated in red on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; black endpapers. Extremities scuffed, a little light marking on boards, bookplate on front pastedown, good. "[T]he story of a woman's fidelity, patience, and unmerited misfortune". (Authors' Preface).
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The Golden Butterfly (1876)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1895

Seller ID: VN1491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated edition, c1895. Rebound yellowback. Dark green beaded binder's cloth. Light scuffing, good.
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The Golden Butterfly (1876)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1889

Seller ID: VN1859

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Original grey-blue cloth, decoratively blocked in black, lettered in gilt on spine; green-and-white flower-patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, corners rubbed, spine lightly sunned, a few faint marks, foxing pots, bookplate on front pastedown, good. The adventures of a wealthy American in Europe.
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