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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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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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Nan: And Other Stories

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

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Griffith Farran & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: VN3516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[Reprint]. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Small loss at head of spine, lightly marked on front board, good. A collection of short stories.
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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: VN3405

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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Old Ebbie: Detective Up to Date (1923)

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

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: VN2598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Original light green cloth, lettered in black. Faint stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. the first collection of stories featuring detective Ebbie Entwhistle. [The first edition was published by Chapman & Hall in 1923]
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Laid Up in Lavender (1907)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 84115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original lavender cloth, lettered in black on front board and in gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, two tiny pin-holes on spine, light foxing, faint signature and bookplate on front endpapers, very good. A collection of 12 stories, which had been "laid up" since their original publication in The Cornhill Magazine (and elsewhere) in the late 1880s and early 1890s: Lady Betty's Indiscretion, The Surgeon's Guest, The Colonel's Boy, A Good Man's Dilemma, Bab, Gerald, Joanna's Bracelet, The Body-Birds of Court, The Vicar's Secret, The Other Englishman, King Pepin and Sweet Clive, & Family Port...
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From the Memoirs of a Minister of France (1895)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: LH005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue-black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's own grey patterned endpapers; top edge gilt. Corners scuffed, a few light spots and marks on boards, signature (1899, in pencil) on half-title, light foxing, otherwise very good. A collection of twelve stories set in France at the turn of the C16th/C17th centuries. Publisher's catalogue dated 7.95 bound in at end.
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Xingu and Other Stories (1916)

By: Wharton, Edith

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: VN0985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine tips scuffed, spine lettering dulled, a few marks on front board, small signature (1943) on front free endpaper, light crack to paper on front inner joint, a little foxing, some staining on rear endpapers, good. A collection of 8 short stories, 2 of which (Kerfol and The Triumph of the Night) were included in the 1937 collection of Wharton's supernatural fiction, Ghosts.
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The Adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights at Mess, and Other Tales (1836)

By: White, James

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1846

Seller ID: 04263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Reprint. Mid C19th fine-ribbed black cloth, with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Neatly rebacked (50 years ago), inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), undated signature on front pastedown, good. There is no indication of authorship nor any illustrations in this edition. The "other stories" are The Traveller in Spite of Himself, The Hour of Fortune & Crocodile Island.
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A Downland Corner (1912)

By: Whitechurch, Victor L. [Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1912

Seller ID: 94024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blindstamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing, foxing spots on early pages and fore-edges, otherwise very good. Whitechurch is best remembered for his crime fiction. However, A Downland Corner is a collection of fifteen stories of country life, and was followed (at wide intervals) with two further collections: Downland Echoes (1924) and Mute Witnesses: Being Certain Annals of a Downland Village (1933).
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The Channings (1862)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1883

Seller ID: VN1526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Twenty-Second edition. Bentley's Favourite Novels. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. Original black cloth, blindstamped on boards, decorated in gilt on spine, dark brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good.
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Johnny Ludlow, Second Series

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1896

Seller ID: VN3506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Thirty-fifth Thousand. Original green cloth, lettered in black (front board) and gilt (spine). Light scuffing, light foxing, tiny chips on spine ends, good. Second of six collections of Johnny Ludlow stories
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