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![Image for Michail or The Heart of a Russian. A Novel in Four Parts (1917) [Russkii barin, 1914]](/assets/images/product/91006.jpg "Michail or The Heart of a Russian. A Novel in Four Parts (1917) [Russkii barin, 1914]")
By: Lappo-Danileskaia, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna ["A Russian Lady"]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1917
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 91006
Original orange cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Some light soiling on boards, corners bumped, a little foxing, good. Lappo-Danilevskaia was a popular and successful novelist (and opera singer) in pre-revolutionary Russia, writing novels of life in high society. She survived the Revolution, endured periods of forced labour and internment in camps before escaping and settling in France. This was her most popular novel. View more info
![Image for The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane translated from the French by T[obias] Smollett (1749) [L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1715 - 35]](/assets/images/product/89125.jpg "The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane translated from the French by T[obias] Smollett (1749) [L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 1715 - 35]")
By: Le Sage, [Alain René]; Tobias Smollett
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Charles Daly: 1840
Seller ID: 89125
Frontispiece, vignette title and a further sixteen plates. Mid C19th black leather over blue marbled boards. Lightly scuffed. Boards a little darkened, undated signature on front pastedown, signature (1876) on vignette title, foxing on margins of plates, otherwise very good. View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1895
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 02547
Original maroon cloth, lettered in black and gilt, illustrated with figures (soldier and woman) on front board; blue-and-white patterned endpapers. Small inkspot on top edge of front board, light marking on leading edge, foxing on prelims, good. A lively melodrama set during the French Revolution. Based on a successful play by Victorien Sardou and Emile Moreau. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1849
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04254
The Wilmingtons (1850). Parlour Library, Volume 79: Simms & McIntyre, 1852.Bound with: Tales of the First French Revolution (1849). First Edition, Parlour Library Volume 31: Simms & McIntyre, 1849. Two volumes bound as one in mid C19th crimson leather over marbled boards; raised bands and black leather title label on spine. Boards sunned to brown and lightly grazed, foxing and undated signature on front free endpaper, good. The 4 stories in Tales of The First French Rev... View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Greening & Co: 1907
Seller ID: 03724
Lotus Library: Greening & Co., 1907. Frontispiece of author. Title page printed and decorated in black and red. Original blindstamped violet cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. Maupassant's first novel. The second translation: Vizetelly had published the first under the title A Woman's Life in 1888. View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Archibald Constable: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01904
"Sole Authorized Translation from the Russian". Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, with blindstamped Russian eagle on front board, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, gilt lettering dulled, inscriptions on front endpapers, good. The final volume of Merejkowski's historical trilogy. The preceding volumes are The Death of the Gods & The Forerunner. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Constable & Co.: 1902
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 03201
Original black cloth, lettered and decorated in red and gilt. A few light marks on cloth, light foxing, very good. Long historical novel, centred around the figure of Leonardo da Vinci, in an anonymous translation from the original Russian. . View more info
![Image for Christ and Anti-Christ (1) The Death of the Gods, translated by Herbert Trench (1901) [Smert bogov. Yulian-Otstupnik, 1895]](/assets/images/product/92095.jpg "Christ and Anti-Christ (1) The Death of the Gods, translated by Herbert Trench (1901) [Smert bogov. Yulian-Otstupnik, 1895]")
By: Merejkowski, Dmitri [Dmitry Merezhkovsky][translated from the Russian by Herbert Trench]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Archibald Constable: 1901
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 92095
Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in darker green and gilt. Lightly scuffed, foxing spots on fore-edges throughout, pencil note on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. The first symbolist novel in Russian: an historical religious novel and first part of a trilogy. Also known as Julian the Apostate, it deals with the fourth century Roman Emperor who tried to resist the rise of Christianity View more info
By: Muller, Christine [ie E. C. W. van WALRÉE]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1873
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 03456
Original red cloth, bordered in black, with tulip on front board, lettered in gilt on spine, brown endpapers. Lightly soiled, corners bumped, good. A novel of contemporary Dutch life. "She has been able to describe the characters and events of her narrative with the like qualities which we find in the paintings of the Dutch school, and give additional value to her tale." (Translator's Introduction) View more info
![Image for The Woman of Mystery (1903). Translated [from the French] by Fred. Rothwell, B. A. [Les Battailes de la Vie: La Ténébreuse, 1901]](/assets/images/product/86032.jpg "The Woman of Mystery (1903). Translated [from the French] by Fred. Rothwell, B. A. [Les Battailes de la Vie: La Ténébreuse, 1901]")
By: Ohnet, Georges [ie George Henot]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1903
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 86032
Title page printed in red and black. Original crimson cloth with woman's head filling front board, lettered in white and gilt. Scuffed and bumped, cloth speckled on rear board, inner joint papers cracked, signatures on front free endpapers, good. Crime novel. Listed in Hubin. One of the series of novels (The Battles of Life) which include Ohnet's best-known works, such as Dr Rameau and The Ironmaster. View more info
By: Rau, Heribert
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Jarrold: 1899
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00463
Undated first edition [1899]. Frontispiece portrait of Mozart. Original tan cloth on bevelled boards. Light scuffing, scattered light foxing, inscription (1902), very good. An earlier and different translation by E. R. Sill appeared in the USA in 1870. "An entrancing romance founded on the tragic and pathetic life of the great tone poet. The book has already attracted widespread enthusiasm in Germany, where it is looked on as absolutely unique." ("Jarrold & S... View more info
![Image for For a Pin (1865) [Pour une épingle, légende, 1856]](/assets/images/product/87009.jpg "For a Pin (1865) [Pour une épingle, légende, 1856]")
By: Saint Germain, J. T. de [ie Jules Romain Tardieu]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1867
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 87009
Mid C19th blue leather over red marbled boards; raised bands, gilt ruling and red leather title label on spine. Light edgewear, considerable foxing throughout, good. A legend or moral fable cast in the form of the autobiography of a clothes pin, as it passes through many hands in fashionable French society. View more info
By: Saintine, X. B.
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1898
Seller ID: 01945
Undated but c1898 (prize plate on fron pastedown dated 1898). Volume in Warne's Star Series. Original decorated red cloth; monogrammed brown endpapers. Light scuffing, light foxing, very good. View more info
By: Sand, George [ie Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, "Baronne" Dudevant]
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1923
Seller ID: VN0057
Masterpieces of French Romance. Edited by Edmund Gosse. [Reprint]. Translated from the French by Stanley Young. With a critical introduction by John Oliver Hobbes. Original dark blue cloth, blocked in yellow. Corners bumped, otherwise very good. View more info
By: Several Authors: Adam, Onkel or Uncle [ie Carl Anton Wetterbergh] & other anonymous Writers
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Wm S. Orr: 1854
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 02965
Bound with: Walks Abroad and Evenings at Home Volume I. J. Bennett & Co., nd, c1852. Frontispiece and numerous woodcuts. Articles and serial stories, including The Adventures of Prince Pretty in the World of Insect Wonders by the Editor (complete) and Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by D[ay] K[ellogg] LEE (start of serialisation). Mid C19th purple leather over purple cloth; gilt decorations on spine. Small scrape to leather on rear board, light rubbing, one small area of ... View more info
By: Several Authors: George Sand, Mme Charles Reybauld
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1847
Seller ID: 81038
Sand, George [ie Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin, "Baronne" Dudevant]: Consuelo (1842). [Parlour Library, Volumes 4 & 5]: Simms & McIntyre, 1847, 1847. Bound with: Reybaud, Mme Charles: The Old Convents of Paris & Sand, George: The Haunted Marsh (1846). [Parlour Library, Volume 8]: Simms & McIntyre, 1847. Three volumes bound as one in mid C19th dark green leather over marbled boards; raised bands and red leather title label on spine; marbled endpapers. Light edgewea... View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Co.: 1897
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 04044
Frontispiece photograph of author with his daughter. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine faintly sunned, some wear on spine ends, front free endpaper excised, otherwise good. Hania is a short novel: the volume is completed with nine short stories: Tartar Captivity, Let Us Follow Him, Be Thou Blessed, At the Source, Charcoal Sketches, The Organist of Ponikla, Lux in Tenebris Lucet, On the Bright Shore & That Third Woman. Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nob... View more info
![Image for The Exploits of Juve Being the Further Pursuit of Fantomas the Mysterious (1916) [Juve Contre Fantomas, 1910]](/assets/images/product/03989.jpg "The Exploits of Juve Being the Further Pursuit of Fantomas the Mysterious (1916) [Juve Contre Fantomas, 1910]")
By: Souvestre, Pierre & Marcel Allain
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Stanley Paul & Co.: 1926
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Seller ID: 03989
Fifth Edition. Original light grey-brown cloth, lettered in dark brown on spine. Cloth a little darkened, good. The Fantomas Detective Novels were hugely popular crime stories, published in France in the early C20th. Fantomas is a vicious master-criminal (a thief, but also a killer), pursued by his nemesis, Inspector Juve, through some 32 novels by the Souvestre and Allain (and a further 11 by Allain alone, after his collaborator's death). English editions are uncommon. ... View more info
![Image for Love's Inferno (1916) translated by C. Thieme. [Inferno, 1916]](/assets/images/product/04129.jpg "Love's Inferno (1916) translated by C. Thieme. [Inferno, 1916]")
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1916
Edition: 4th Edition
Seller ID: 04129
Original black cloth, lettered in white, with illustration (iron gauntlet against red background) on front board. In box on spine below title; "Forbidden in Germany". Lightly scuffed, front free endpaper tipped in good. An anti-war novel written by a pacifist German novelist living in exile in Switzerland. Stilgebauer's novels (and opinions) were equally unpopular with the German government during the Third Reich. Publisher's catalogue for 1915 bound in at end. View more info
![Image for Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]](/assets/images/product/90096.jpg "Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]")
By: Stinde, Julius
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1887
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 90096
Original red cloth, ruled and lettered in black; yellow endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks on boards, a little scattered foxing on early pages, very good. By the author of The Buchholz Family. View more info
