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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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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

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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Ashley and Other Stories (1897)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1919

Seller ID: VN0666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Ninety-Seventh Thousand. Smaller format in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, otherwise very good.
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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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A Pretty Radical and Other Stories (1890)

By: Wotton, Mabel E. [Mabel Elizabeth Wotton]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, David Stott: 1890

Seller ID: 90129

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original fine-ribbed light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black; blue-green endpapers. Corners rubbed, light crease to front board, front free endpaper (and possibly half-title) removed, fair/good. Uncommon collection of short stories.
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Life is Life and Other Tales and Episodes (1898)

By: Zack [ie Gwendolen Keats]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood: 1898

Seller ID: VN2544

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original orange-tan cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Small ink spot on front board, spine a trifle darkened, light foxing, very good.A collection of twelve short stories.
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Tales of Dunstable Weir (1901)

By: Zack [ie Gwendoline Keats]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 93013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece. Original blue black cloth over red boards, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed on extremities, a little faint foxing, very good. Keats's penultimate book: a collection of seven short stories set in the Devonshire village of Dunstable Weir.
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