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At Random. Essays and Stories (1896)

By: Austin, L. F. [Louis Frederic Austin]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: VN2563

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original cream cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt. Decorated title page. Clean and bright, but cracked (and repaired) across bottom half of rear board, with crease to cloth on spine: thus only fair/good. A scarce collection.
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Cricket Heron

By: Bacheller, Irving

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1909

Seller ID: VN2098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original steel blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Small name stamp on front free endpaper, light foxing, small nick at head of spine, otherwise a bright, tight copy: very good+. Scarce.
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Cashiered and Other War Tales (1902)

By: Balfour, Andrew

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, James Nisbet: 1902

Seller ID: 91020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine ends bumps, a few light marks, light foxing on endpapers, very good. Eleven short stories of "the Great Boer War": The Assvogels, Cashiered, A Chaplain in the Forces, The Power of the Vrouw, A Tale of the Rails, The Merry Mauser, The Umkonto, Bellow Son of Brindle, Kaatan the Hunter, Katana the Scout.
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The Watchmaker's Daughter and Other Tales (1882)

By: Banks, Mrs G. Linnaeus [ie Isabella Banks]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Manchester & London, Abel Heywood/Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: VN1911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Late issue. Dated 1882, but clearly in a later binding style to the usual first edition, and with an undated catalogue bound in at end. Probably dates to around 1890. Illustrated. Original red cloth, blocked in black on front board, blocked in black and lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks on cloth, very good. Collection of thirteen stories.
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In a Quiet Village (1900)

By: Baring-Gould, S. [Sabine Baring-Gould]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Isbister & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: VN0962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original two-tone cloth: boards light green, spine cream, lettered in gilt; black endpapers; top edge gilt. Spine dulled, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), light foxing, undated signature on half-title, good. Not in Wolff. 20 character sketches and short stories, originally published in journals such as Good Words. A scarce title.
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Ribbon Stories (1872)

By: Barker, Lady [ie Mary Anne Barker]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1880

Seller ID: 80024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Undated [1880]. Illustrated. Original green cloth, ruled and lettered in black and gilt; brown endpapers. Corners lightly rubbed, a few light marks on boards, a little foxing, gift inscription (1882) on recto of frontispiece, good. A collection of stories, invented by a lonely little girl.
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Irish Idylls (1892)

By: Barlow, Jane

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1892

Seller ID: 03866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. Original green cloth on bevelled boards; dark green endpapers; top edge gilt. Corners scuffed, small slip snipped from top edge of half-title, good. Linked sketches of peasant life in Connemara.
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From the East unto the West (1896)

By: Barlow, Jane

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 04033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New and Cheaper Edition, Methuen's Shillings Novel. Original red cloth, with blindstamped framing on boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Two small chips to cloth at head of spine, spine lightly sunned, good. Uncommon collection of stories which move in location from the Arabian Desert (east) to Ireland (west). The fifteen stories are: The Evil Abeyoonahs, The Puzzle of Jarbeck, The Mockers of the Shallow Waters, At Krinori, A Caprice of Queen Pippa, An Advance Sheet, The Field of the Frightful Beasts, The Long Furrow, Moggy Goggin, Cocky, As Luck Would Have It, Her Bit of Money, Some Jokes of T...
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Mac's Adventures (1911)

By: Barlow, Jane

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 04113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Title page printed in brown and black. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A little scuffing, light foxing, light speckling on front board, otherwise very good. Uncommon late collection of humorous stories by this Irish writer: A Luncheon Party, A Formidable Rival, Mac's Way's and Means, Some Jokes of Timothy, A Wedding Gown, The Field of Frightful Beasts, The Aunt of the Savages, An Invincible Ignoramus.
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Lord Stranleigh, Philanthropist (1911)

By: Barr, Robert

Price: £24.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: VN2832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original black cloth with repeated impressed squares in gilt: illustration on glazed paper inset in centre of front board, lettered in gilt. A little rubbing oto top corners, frontispiece nicked on edges, a little light foxing, very good in bright tight binding.
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The "Wine-Drinker" and Other Stories (1911)

By: Batchelder, W. J.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 91062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece. Original red cloth, ruled and lettered in black. A few light marks, paper faintly tanned, very good. Nautical stories "based upon either 'longshore' fact or tradition." Batchelder also wrote several books about Baden Powell and the Scouting movement.
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Under Tropic Skies (1905)

By: Becke, Louis

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1905

Seller ID: 87141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Title page printed in red and black. Spine a little darkened, boards sunned on edges, small nicks to cloth on spine ends, signature (1908) on front free endpaper, fair/good only. A collection of stories mostly with South Sea settings.
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The Tapu of Banderah (1901)

By: Becke, Louis & Walter Jeffery

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1901

Seller ID: 89144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, tiny nick at foot of spine, faint foxing, very good. Australian and South Pacific tales.
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Tales of the Five Towns (1905)

By: Bennett, Arnold

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1905

Seller ID: 92142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original light blue and white flecked cloth, with rose tree design and lettering in dark blue on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned/dulled, front free end paper removed, name stamp on prelims, foxing spots, good only. A scarce early title. Thirteen short stories, "At Home" and "Abroad".
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To Call Her Mine Etc (1889)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1891

Seller ID: 04185A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Original grey-blue cloth, blocked in black; brown-and-white patterned endpapers. 1 cm nick at head of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, gilt a little rubbed on spine, otherwise good. Contains three "Christmas Books": To Call Her Mine, Katherine Regina & Self or Bearer. Katherine Regina originally appeared as a volume in Arrowsmith's Bristol Library: it is the story of a "type-writer girl" -- a new phenomenon at the end of the C19th as young, middle-class girls started to earn their own livings.
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Herr Paulus, His Rise, His Greatness, His Fall (1888)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890

Seller ID: VN2172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Late C19th rebinding in blue leather over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Extremities scuffed, otherwise good. The story of the unmasking of a fraudulent "medium".
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In Deacon's Orders Etc (1895)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898

Seller ID: 89061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[Cheap Edition]. Original light brown cloth on limp/light boards, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Light crease to front board, otherwise good. A collection of some of Besant's sharpest stories: In Deacon's Orders, Peer and Heiress, The Equal Woman, The Shrinking Shoe, Quarantine Island, In Three Weeks, One and Two, A Night with Tantalus, The Solid Gold Reef Company Limited, To the Third and Fourth Generation & King David's Friend. Publisher's catalogue dated March 1898 bound in at end.
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To Call Her Mine Etc (1889)

By: Besant, Walter

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1891

Seller ID: 95105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Late C19th white parchment over marbled boards, green leather title label on spine. A few light marks, light grazing, very good. Contains three "Christmas Books": To Call Her Mine, Katherine Regina & Self or Bearer. Katherine Regina originally appeared as a volume in Arrowsmith's Bristol Library: it is the story of a "type-writer girl" -- a new phenomenon at the end of the C19th as young, middle-class girls started to earn their own livings.
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The Case of Mr Lucraft; and Other Tales (1877)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1877

Seller ID: 95039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Early edition, probably a rebound yellowback. Late C19th navy-blue leather over maroon marbled boards; raised bands, gilt decorations and red leather title label on spine; maroon marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Boards lightly grazed, extremities lightly rubbed, foxing on prelims, undated signature on verso of front free endpaper, very good. A collection of short stories. The book is divided into three sections: I From the Supernatural (The Case of Mr Lucraft, The Mystery of Joe Morgan, An Old Old Story, Lady Kitty, The Old Four-Poster, My Own Experience); II From Fairyland (Titania's Far...
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The Ten Years' Tenant and Other Stories (1881)

By: Besant, Walter & James Rice

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1887

Seller ID: MC269

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Late C19th deep maroon leather over maroon marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Extremities lightly rubbed, small nick at head of spine, otherwise tight copy, good. Contains three long stories: The Ten Years' Tenant, Sweet Nelly My Heart's Delight & Over the Sea with a Sailor. The first story is a fantasy, concerning a man who learned the secret of near endless life from a necromancer: he claims to be over 260 years old and to have had 17 wives.....
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