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The Strength of Straw (1900)

By: Stuart, Esmé [ie Amelie Claire Leroy]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, John Long: 1900

Seller ID: 92002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original deep pink cloth, lettered and decorated in orange and black. Spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned, very good. Stuart is best-remembered for her stories for younger readers, many put out by the SPCK; but she also wrote at least nine three-decker novels for adult readership. The Strength of Straw is an adult title: a scarce collection of 15 short stories.
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Told by the Taffrail (1901)

By: Sundowner [ie Henry Tichborne]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1901

Seller ID: 95077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original sage green cloth, illustrated and lettered in pale blue on front board, in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, rear board speckled and lightly sunned on edge, undated signature on front free endpaper, foxing (heavy on early/late pages), otherwise good. A collection of 51 short stories "thrown together during the course of an easy run through the Austral Colonies, Eastern and Pacific seas, and South and Central America.". Tichborne was the author of several books set in the southern Pacific, including Noqu Talanoa (1896), Snakes (1896), & Rambles in Polynesia (1897). Publisher's ca...
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Tales of the Open Hazard (1912)

By: Sutcliffe, Halliwell

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Mills & Boon: 1912

Seller ID: 03790

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine faintly sunned, inscription (1921) and small notes in red on front endpapers, light foxing, very good. A short novel -- The Three Who Met -- and 4 short stories: The Night Surprise, The Jolly Smugglers, The Angel Tavern & The Duellist.
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A Man, A Woman, and a Dog (1901)

By: Suthers, Robert B. [Robert Bentley Suthers]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Walter Scott/The Clarion Newspaper: 1901

Seller ID: VN2443

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated title page. Original blue cloth, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, owner's bookplate on front pastedown, very good. Humorous sketches told by an irascible narrator. Suthers was a friend and colleague of socialist writer Robert Blatchford, to whom the volume is dedicated.
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Stephen Glyn, and Other Stories (1902)

By: Swan, Annie S. [Annie Shepherd Swan]

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1904

Seller ID: VN3407

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original blindstamped crimson cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. A little rubbing on hinges, inscriptions on prelims, a little foxing, good. Four novelettes.
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The Coming of Sonia and Other Stories (1902)

By: Synge, Mrs Hamilton

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1902

Seller ID: VN2831

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original bright green cloth, lettered in gilt. A clean tight, bright copy APART FROM the rear board, which is discoloured (see photograph)
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Bluebeard's Keys and Other Stories (1874)

By: Thackeray, Miss [ie Anne Thackeray Ritchie]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1874

Seller ID: 90100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; green-black endpapers. Corners rubbed, spine relaid (a century ago), picture of keys pasted verso of half-title, good. Wolff [5880]
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Pictures in a Mirror (1861)

By: Thomas, W[illiam] Moy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons: 1883

Seller ID: 02408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original dark red cloth, decoratively blocked in black; cream endpapers. Cloth a little darkened and lightly marked, signature (1947) on front free endpaper, good. A collection of 13 stories (The Wandering Mason, The Golden Ram, A Night of Tortures etc) and essays (Milton's Golden Lane, Edgar Allen Poe, etc), a number of which had originally appeared in Dickens's journal Household Words.
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Romances of the Road (1901)

By: Thormanby [ie Wilmott Wilmott-Dixon]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, R. A. Everett: 1901

Seller ID: 80101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, yellowback issue. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Corners rubbed, tiny nicks/chips on spine ends, paper lightly browned throughout, very good. Ten stories of elopement, highwaymen, love and mystery.
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From the Book Beautiful Being Some Old Lights Relit (1908)

By: Thorne, Guy [ie Cyril Ranger Gull]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Greening & Co.: 1908

Seller ID: 91029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original black cloth, framed and lettered in red. A little light foxing, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. A collection of seven stories from the Bible, retold.
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The Little Widow and Other Episodes English, Irish, Welsh & Scotch (1894)

By: Tirebuck, William

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: MC222

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Short Stories by British Authors. Original blue cloth, with red shield and gilt ornament on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Cloth lightly but unevenly sunned, and marked on boards, a little faint foxing, good. Twelve short stories. Tirebuck is remembered mainly as an editor of poetry, and writer on art: his handful of fiction titles is very scarce. The series -- Short Stories by British Authors -- seems to have been short-lived. COPAC lists only two other titles: In a North Country Village (M. E Francis, 1893) & Six Common Things (E. F. Benson, 1893).
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Fellow Travellers (1896)

By: Travers, Graham [ie Dr Margaret Todd]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1896

Seller ID: 04418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth, dark green endpapers. Corners scuffed, signature (1899) on half-title, foxing, very good. 5 short novels/long stories: After Many Days, The Examiner's Conscience, A Great Gulf, The Knight and the Lady & The Story of a Friendship: A Study in Sober Tints. Margaret Todd qualified and practised as a doctor in Edinburgh.
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Fellow Travellers (1896)

By: Travers, Graham [ie Margaret Todd]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood: 1896

Seller ID: 94107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original green cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine; dark green endpapers. Near fine. Margaret Todd qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh, and medicine and its practitioners feature widely in her fiction. Her first novel was Mona Maclean, Medical Student (1892). Fellow Travellers was her second title, a collection of 5 long stories, also with some medical themes. The stories are: After Many Days, The Examiner's Conscience, A Great Gulf, The Knight and the Lady & The Story of a Friendship: A Study in Sober Tints.
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Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories (1867)

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co..: 1886

Seller ID: 02933

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1882 or 1886 (the code date 82 and 86 both appear at the foot of the last page). Probably a rebound yellowback edition: late C19th green binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Undated signature on front free endpaper, a little foxing, good. A collection of 9 short stories. One of Trollope's more uncommon titles.
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Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories (1867)

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Strahan & Co/Chapman & Hall: 1870

Seller ID: 89062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[Second Edition]. Original grass green cloth, decoratively blocked in black and gilt on front board and spine, in blind on rear board; lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers with Chapman & Hall booklists. Corner scuffed, small tear to inner edge of half-title, light foxing, otherwise very good. Strahan published this collection of stories in 1867 and produced a second edition in 1870. Chapman & Hall acquired the copyright and issued the book in their Standard Library of Fiction, also in 1870. This copy is in an anomalous "in between" state: being the Strahan printing with a binding...
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Legal T Leaves (1903)

By: Turner, Edward F.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: VN2846

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original crimson cloth, lettered and illustrated in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. A few light marks on boards, endpapers browned, front free endpaper removed and W. H. Smith's label on front pastedown, good. Short stories of crime and litigation, as experienced by a member of the legal profession.
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Meg of Elibank and Other Tales (1860)

By: Tytler, Sarah [ie Henrietta Keddie]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, John W. Parker: 1860

Seller ID: 92120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original blindstamped royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Loss of cloth (1 cm) to head and foot of spine, a trifle shaken, otherwise a good reading copy. Six long stories, mostly with Scottish settings: Meg of Elibank, The Laird's Seam, A Wooing and Wedding of 17--, Lady Strathmore's Daughter, Squire Bolton's Transgression, Hector Garrett of Otter. Tytler/Keddie had a long career: her first novel, The Kinnears, appeared in 1852; her last seems to have been A Banished Lady (1909). Meg of Elibank appeared anonymously as "by the author of The Nut-Brown Maids."
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Stories and Reminiscences (1900)

By: Uncle William, A Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired)

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Liverpool, Edward Howell: 1900

Seller ID: VN2104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Errata slip tipped in before front page. A collection of short stories by an unknown soldier, addressed to his nephews by "Uncle William". The stories range in location across the globe. Very scarce.
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Secrets of the Courts of Europe (1897)

By: Upward, Allen

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Bristol, J. W. Arrowsmith: 1897

Seller ID: 85084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1897]. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine very faintly sunned, undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwise clean, bright tight copy: very good. Twelve stories of ambassadorial confidences; political and royal secrets; and other intrigues. Originally published in two series of six in Pearson's Magazine.
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Golden Stories

By: Various Authors

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, 1905

Seller ID: VN2405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated volume containing issues of the weekly novelette journal, Golden Stories. Dates sometime between 1898 and 1913. Each issue is a contains a complete short novel and runs to around 40 pages. Bound up in blue-green binder's cloth. Paper lightly tanned and spotted, good. The stories included here are: Those Summer Days by Florence Hodgkinson, Horace Drayton's Temptation by Westwood Brown, His Irish Wife by Hilda Grey, Vengeance is Mine by C. E. C. Weigall, The Repayment by C. E. C. Weigall, The Apple of His Eye by M. B. Manwell, Married for her Money by Alan Adair, The Fate of Ruby by Elt...
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