Category: Miscellaneous

"Fifth Edition". Frontispiece. Original dark green cloth, elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt. Corners bumped, cancelled signature on front free endpaper, good++. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1894 bound in at end
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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

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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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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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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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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With Harp and Crown (1875)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1887

Seller ID: 04276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

"Library Edition". Late C19th deep maroon leather over maroon boards; raised bands and gilt titling on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Spine just faintly sunned, bookplate on verso of front free endpaper, a few foxing spots, near fine. "[T]he story of a woman's fidelity, patience, and unmerited misfortune". (Authors' Preface).
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Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1902

Seller ID: VN2117

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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A North Country Comedy (1891)

By: Betham-Edwards, M. [Matilda Betham Edwards]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, H. Henry & Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 96004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The Random Series. Original grey cloth, lettered and decorated in brown and blue; green patterned endpapers. Spine a little darkened, corners lightly rubbed, light foxing, good. The first edition appeared as part of The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour.
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Mad (1887)

By: Biddle-Cope, The Marquis [ie James Cyprian Camby Biddle-Cope]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ward & Downey: 1887

Seller ID: 85095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pale fawn cloth, illustrated with figure of woman in red and black, lettered in red and black; black endpapers. Corners bumped, rubbed at foot of spine, Grosvenor Gallery Library plate on front board, good. Biddle-Cope was Anglo-American; his support for the Catholic Church gained him a marquisate of the Holy See. The novel moves between England and America (with a grim finale in Italy); one of the characters descends into madness.
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Love or Lucre (1878)

By: Black, Robert

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1879

Seller ID: 95038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Late C19th navy-blue leather over maroon marbled boards; raised bands, gilt decorations and red leather title label on spine; maroon marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Spine faintly sunned, boards lightly grazed, extremities lightly rubbed, foxing on prelims, undated signature on verso of front free endpaper, very good.
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Sunrise. A Story of These Times

By: Black, William

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1902

Seller ID: VN0184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint, c1902. Uniform edition binding in brown cloth, lettered in gilt. A little foxing and undated signature on endpapers, very good. Novel of international political intrigue and secret societies.
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The New Prince Fortunatus (1890)

By: Black, William

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1890

Seller ID: 00941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Copyright Edition. Two volumes bound as one in late C19th dark red cloth. Spine a little darkened, some spots and marks on cloth, page edges lightly browned throughout, good. The hero is the star of a The Squire's Daughter "the comedy-opera that had taken all musical London by storm". A theatrical novel, with a Scottish interlude. Todd [2635/36]. First/only issues, series half-titles bound in.
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Category: Miscellaneous

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