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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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White Wings, A Yachting Romance

By: Black, William

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 01586

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Inner joint papers lightly cracked, otherwise tight, very good. Romance and sailing in the seas around the Inner Hebrides.
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Green Pastures and Piccadilly

By: Black, William

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 01587

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Inner joint papers lightly cracked, otherwise tight, very good. Partly the story of an unhappy marriage, partly the story of a party of English travellers in late nineteenth century America (from new York out to Nebraska).
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A Daughter of Heth

By: Black, William

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 01590

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Photograph of author as frontispiece. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Inner joint papers lightly cracked, otherwise tight, very good. Black's most famous novel: the story of a Catholic girl brought to live with a Protestant family in south-west Scotland. When the girl seeks the friendship of a local nobleman, tragedy ensues.
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The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton

By: Black, William

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1883

Seller ID: 01596

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Sixteenth Thousand. Original blue cloth, with decorative bands in black and gilt; dark brown endpapers. Corners scuffed, some light foxing, good. A tour by open, horse-drawn carriage, through the towns of Midland and northern England towards the Scottish borders: scenic descriptions, romance and comedy with minimal plotting.
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The New Prince Fortunatus (1890)

By: Black, William

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 02116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New & Revised Edition. Uniform series binding in green cloth, with Black's signature blindstamped on front board. Light scuffing to corners, little foxing (especially on endpapers), otherwise very 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.
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The Maid of Killeena and Other Stories (1874)

By: Black, William

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1878

Seller ID: 02250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

[Reprint]. Original royal blue cloth, with decorative bands in black and gilt on front board and spine (blindstamped bands on rear board); brown endpapers. Small bump at head of rear board, light foxing on prelims, otherwise near fine. Contains the title piece and 4 linked stories which were omitted from the uniform collected edition of Black's works published by Sampson Low (from 1892): Queen Tita's Wager, A Fight for a Wife, The True Legend of a Billiard-Club & A Sequel to That.
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Lady Silverdale's Sweetheart and Other Tales (1876, with different contents, as Lady Silverdale's Sweetheart and Other Stories)

By: Black, William

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: 02626

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Corners scuffed, a few light marks on cloth, very good. The first edition (1876) contained three long stories Lady Silverdale's Sweetheart, The Marriage of Moira Fergus & The Man Who Was Like Shakespeare; 2 short shorter pieces The Strange Horse of Loch Suainabhal & The Highlands of the City; also a short article as addendum A Glance at the Isle of Lewis. In this "revised" edition The Marriage of Moira Fergus has been replaced by another long story, The Pupil of Aurelius, and the addendum dropped altogether....
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Sabina Zembra (1887)

By: Black, William

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 02627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Corners scuffed, a few light marks on cloth, very faint tanning to paper, good. One of Black's less common later novels. Sabina, the daughter of a well-to-do MP, shocks her family and friends by marrying Fred Foster, a down-at-heel sporting man -- and misery ensues.
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Stand Fast, Craig-Royston! (1890)

By: Black, William

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 02628

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Undated, c1894. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Corners scuffed, a few light marks on cloth, very good. One of Black's less common later novels. The novel questions the Victorians' romantic fascination with Scotland. Is George Bethune -- besotted with his Scottish heritage -- a visionary, a fool, or simply a scoundrel?
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Shandon Bells

By: Black, William

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1893

Seller ID: VN0801

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Spine tips scuffed, a few light marks, good. A novel which moves between Cork and London: the story of the growth of a writer from newspaper man to respected literary figure when the love of his life deserts him.
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The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton

By: Black, William

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1886

Seller ID: VN1450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Eighteenth Thousand. Original blue cloth, with decorative bands in black and gilt; dark brown endpapers. Corners scuffed, some light foxing, bookplate, good. A tour by open, horse-drawn carriage, through the towns of Midland and northern England towards the Scottish borders: scenic descriptions, romance and comedy with minimal plotting.
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White Heather

By: Black, William

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: VN1686

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New and Revised Edition. Undated, c1896. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. A little scuffed, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. A gamekeeper from a remote are of northern Scotland sets out to better himself in Glasgow and nearly comes to grief....
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In Far Lochaber (1889)

By: Black, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1889

Seller ID: 04111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New [ie First One-Volume] Edition. Original scarlet cloth, intricately blocked in black and gilt on front board and spine, lettered in gilt; grey-and-white leaf-patterned endpapers, Light scuffing, a few light marks on rear board, inscription (1890) on verso of front free endpaper, very good. Publisher's catalogue for October 1889 bound in at end. A romance provokes religious fanaticism (Free Church vs Roman Catholic). Settings: a Lanarkshire mill-town and Fort William.
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Highland Cousins (1894)

By: Black, William

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 84084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Fifth Thousand, [First One-Volume Edition]. Original navy-blue morocco grained cloth, lettered in gilt; publisher's own patterned blue-and-white endpapers. Minor scuffing, otherwise very good. Setting: Oban ("Duntroone"). The courtship of Highland cousins Allan and Jessie is disrupted by the arrival another cousin, the bewitching but amoral Barbara.
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Wolfenberg (1892)

By: Black, William

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co,: 1899

Seller ID: VN1968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1899. Original elaborately patterned red and black cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Spine a little dulled, good+. While light-hearted lovers flirt and bicker on a cruise to the Black Sea, a more tragic love story unfolds, half seen.
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Three Feathers. A Novel (1875)

By: Black, William

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1877

Seller ID: 04207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Fifth Edition. Original scarlet cloth on bevelled boards, elaborately blocked in black and gilt; brown endpapers. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Black's novel owes some debt to Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873): both in its setting (Cornwall) and some plot elements (for example: an aborted elopement). An attractive edition in the series sometimes referred to as Low's Standard Novels. Publisher's catalogue for 1883 bound in at end.
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