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Pictures without Canvas (1905)

By: Stephens, Clark

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Henry Drane (Ye Old St Bride's Press): 1905

Seller ID: VN2454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1905]. Original illustrated beige cloth, with no lettering on spine. Some specks and spots on boards, light foxing, front free endpaper removed, good. A collection of short stories and sketches. Scarce.
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A Book of Vagrom Men and Vagrant Thoughts (1889)

By: Story, Alfred T. [Alfred Thomas Story]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Authors' Co-operative Publishing Co.: 1889

Seller ID: 80084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original cream boards, lettered and decorated in gilt. Boards a little soiled, spine a little darkened (especially at head/foot), otherwise good. Character sketches and short essays on such diverse topics as Gardens, Tramps, Strawberries, Dolls, The Street Musician, The Ballad Singer and The Grave-Digger.
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Elmslie's Drag-net Being Certain Notes Made By Him in the Fishing Village of Aberspendie

By: Strain, E. H. [Mrs Euphans H. Strain]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: VN3474

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, front free endpaper removed, otherwise good. A collection of 5 tales: Bell Dundas, A Sightless Seer, Half a Genius, Janet Nicholson, & God's Glow-Worm
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The Strength of Straw (1900)

By: Stuart, Esm [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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Cheerio! Some Soldier Yarns (1917)

By: Tilsley, J. Frederick

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, W. & R. Chambers: 1917

Seller ID: VN3424

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in red. Spine a trifle dulled, endpapers tanned with inscription (Xmas, 1917), very good. Stories of the First World Ward, some bitterly ironic
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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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Tales of All Countries

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1885

Seller ID: VN3527

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Select Library of Fiction. Undated, c1885. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in dark green, black and gilt; brown leaf-patterned endpapers. Split (3 cms) to head of upper hinge, lightly scuffed, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints holding), good
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