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By: Besant, Walter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1901
Seller ID: VN1498
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1883
Seller ID: 93044
Condition: Good
Sixth Edition. Original scarlet cloth, illustrated in black on both boards, lettered in gilt on spine, black endpapers. A little rubbing at head of spine, front inner joint paper cracking (but joint tight), bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise good. A reactionary satire: in an imagined future, women have gained political and financial control of society. Originally published anonymously. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £135.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1887
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 91014
Condition: Good
Illustrated, including portrait of Besant as frontispiece in Volume I. Three volumes in original grey-green cloth, with decorative scarf design on front boards in red, black and brown, lettered in gilt on spines; grey-and-white patterned endpapers. Small cloth inserts at heads of spines on Volumes I & II, full spine strengthened on Volume III. Corners scuffed, faint traces of removed labels on front boards, bookplate of Arthur Digby Besant on each front pastedown: a good, tight set. Historical novel. Arthur Digby Besant was the author's nephew, son of Walter's brother Frank and the noted theos... View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1889
Seller ID: VN1485
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898
Seller ID: 89061
Condition: Good
[Cheap Edition]. 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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1891
Seller ID: 04185A
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1907
Seller ID: 00840
Condition: Very Good
New Impression. Original brown cloth on limp boards, blocked in black, title on gilt block on spine. Corners lightly scuffed, some marks on rear board, very good. Issued in the smaller format originally known as the "Popular Two Shilling Novels". View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1888
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00986
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Horace Marshall: 1897
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: VN1422
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1899
Seller ID: 02768A
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £250.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1888
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 91007
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 three volume set which will require additional postage for weight/signed for postage. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890
Seller ID: VN2172
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". View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86079
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1889
Seller ID: VN1859
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1884
Seller ID: 03744
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898
Seller ID: 01583
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1893
Seller ID: 01916
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. View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1915
Seller ID: 02016
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". View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1895
Seller ID: VN1491
Condition: Good
Undated edition, c1895. Rebound yellowback. Dark green beaded binder's cloth. Light scuffing, good. View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1902
Seller ID: VN2117
Condition: Good
New Edition. Frontispiece. Original light brown cloth with shiled in gilt on front board. Faint pink flush to rear board, spine faintly sunned, a few light marks on cloth, foxing spots, gift inscription (1907) on front free endpaper, good. A biography, not a novel. View more info
