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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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Bolts and Bars (1905)

By: Vernon-Harcourt, F. C. [Frederick Claude Vernon-Harcourt]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Digby, Long & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 91030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original grey-brown cloth illustrated (with figure of chained convict) and lettered in yellow and black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Cloth a little loosened on boards, spine lightly sunned, W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plate and signature (1911) on front pastedown, good. Tales (a mixture, the author says, of fact and fiction) of crimes, criminals and prison life. The author himself was jailed (briefly) for killing a political opponent in a fight, but eventually acquitted and freed.
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Honey of Aloes and Other Stories (1894)

By: Vynne, Nora

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Bowden: 1894

Seller ID: VN2451

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original two tone cloth; spine green and lettered in gilt; boards pale brown and lettered/decorated in green; yellow endpapers. Extremities scuffed, undated signatures (in pencil) on front endpapers, good++. A collection of short stories.
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Her Great Idea and Other Stories (1888)

By: Walford, L. B. [Lucy Bethia Walford]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1888

Seller ID: 90123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, lettered and decoratively framed in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, a little light pink staining on edges of endpapers, light speckling on boards, good.
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Breakers of the Law (1911)

By: Walker, A. Stodart [Archibald Stodart Walker]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1911

Seller ID: 88078

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue-black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, blind on front board. Lettering oxidised/dulled, otherwise clean and tight, good. A collection of fourteen stories, previously unpublished. "The Law referred to is that which binds men and women together as husbands and wives..." (Author's Foreword).
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After the Revolution and Other Holiday Fantasies (1893)

By: Wallace, William

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Glasgow, William Hodge: 1893

Seller ID: 91041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original mauve cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt. Spine a little darkened with small loss of cloth at head, front board sunned along edges, otherwise clean and tight: good
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Flaunting Moll and Other Stories (1898)

By: Walling, R. A. J. [Robert Alfred John Walling]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Harper & Brothers: 1898

Seller ID: VN2421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth, illustrated with blossoming branches in black and white, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed and spine a trifle darkened, light foxing, very good. Walling became well-known as a writer of detective fiction in the 1920s & 30s. Flaunting Moll was his first book. the stories are: Flaunting Moll, A Ruined Foreground, The Real and the Ideal, The Return of Joe Burbury, The Disappearance of Prudence Jane, Monsieur Blois, Gaffer Gurdon, A Minuet of Corelli, The Silver Lamp of Sainte Croix, The Westward Mail, The Freight of Death, Dollie, The Red Saint-Malouin, The Cry at Passing.
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The Forbidden Boundary and Other Stories (1908)

By: Weale, B. L. Putnam [ie Bertram Lenox Simpson]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1908

Seller ID: VN2039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blindstamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing, very good. Stories, principally set in China and Japan. Weale wrote a number of (non-fiction) works on this part of the world.
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Tartan and Gold Tales of Sport and Play (1889)

By: Webber, Byron

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Ward & Downey: 1889

Seller ID: VN2407

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth, illustrated with racing scene in black, lettered in black and gilt, patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, spine a little darkened, otherwise near very good. A collection of sporting stories.
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The Curse of the Lion (1922)

By: Webster, F. A. M. [Frederick Annesley Michael Webster]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, United Press: 1922

Seller ID: 03796

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"The Modern Fiction Library". Undated first edition [1922]. Original light blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; title and series title blindstamped on front board. Spine lettering a little oxidised, corners bumped, browning on endpapers, good. Tall tales from Africa, including one of an "apeman", somewhat reminiscent of Burroughs's Tarzan.
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