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For a Pin (1865) [Pour une pingle, lgende, 1856]

By: Saint Germain, J. T. de [ie Jules Romain Tardieu]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1867

Seller ID: 87009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Picciola; or, The Prison Flower

By: Saintine, X. B.

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 01945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Image for The Serf's Daughter A Tale of Domestic Life, translated from the Swedish of Uncle Adam by Frederica Rowan (1854); Walks Abroad and Evenings at Home

The Serf's Daughter A Tale of Domestic Life, translated from the Swedish of Uncle Adam by Frederica Rowan (1854); Walks Abroad and Evenings at Home

By: Several Authors: Adam, Onkel or Uncle [ie Carl Anton Wetterbergh] & other anonymous Writers

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Wm S. Orr: 1854

Seller ID: 02965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 dulling to cloth on front board, good.
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Hania translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin (1897)

By: Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, J. M. Dent & Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 04044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905 and is principally remembered for his epic Roman novel Quo Vadis (1895).
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Love's Inferno (1916) translated by C. Thieme. [Inferno, 1916]

By: Stilgebauer, Edward

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1916

Seller ID: 04129

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Woodland Tales [translated from the German by Ellis Wright] (1887) [Waldnovellen, 1881]

By: Stinde, Julius

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1887

Seller ID: 90096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Liza or, A Noble Nest translated from the Russian by W. R. S. Ralston (1869)

By: Turgenieff, Ivan [Ivan Turgenev]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1884

Seller ID: 03192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[Reprint]. Undated c1884. Original blue cloth with blue marbled paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Paper rubbed on leading edges, with small chip on front board, spine tips nicked, several signatures and small name stamp on front free endpaper, a little faint browning on page edges, good.
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A Nest of Hereditary Legislators done into English from the edition of Turguenieff's works published by MR GLAZOONOFF, St Petersburg, 1913 [translated from the Russian by "Frantz Davidovich Davis"]

By: Turguenieff, Ivan [Ivan Turgenev]

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: VN1360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Trade Edition. Undated [1914]. Original grey cloth on bevelled boards; white paper title label on spine. No dustwrapper. Spine label rubbed, light scuffing, signature (1924) on front free endpaper, good. Also privately published in Tunbridge Wells by Francis Middleton Davis (almost certainly the real name of the translator).
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Under a Charm, [translated] from the German by Christina Tyrell (1877) [Vineta, 1877]

By: Werner, E [ie Elizabeth Burstenbinder]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1878

Seller ID: 04219

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Favourite Novels. Favourite Novels binding: blindstamped green cloth, decorated in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Corners rubbed, endpapers replaced, good. A German junker and Polish countess fall in love, but have to deal with the long-standing antagonism between their nations. Scarce.
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Truth (French title: Vrit, 1903). Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

By: Zola, Emile

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1925

Seller ID: VN1470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Reprint. Preface by the translator. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lettering dulled, final few leaves have crease on lower corner, good. The third in a planned quartet of books, and Zola's last completed novel, published posthumously.
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