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By: Austin, L. F. [Louis Frederic Austin]
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1896
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2563
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. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2098
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. View more info
By: Banks, Mrs G. Linnaeus [ie Isabella Banks]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Manchester & London, Abel Heywood/Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1890
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN1911
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. View more info
By: Baring-Gould, S. [Sabine Baring-Gould]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Isbister & Co.: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0962
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. View more info
By: Barker, Lady [ie Mary Anne Barker]
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1880
Seller ID: 80024
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. View more info
By: Barlow, Jane
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1892
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03866
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. View more info
By: Barlow, Jane
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1905
Seller ID: 04033
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 ... View more info
By: Barlow, Jane
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1911
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 04113
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. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87141
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. View more info
By: Becke, Louis & Walter Jeffery
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89144
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. View more info
By: Bennett, Arnold
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86016
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". View more info
By: Bennett, Arnold
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson: 1917
Seller ID: VN2704
Undated reprint (1911, or more probably 1917). Original blue cloth, framed and lettered in darker blue. Corners scuffed, page edges lightly tanned, portion of original dustwrapper tipped on to front pastedown good. View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1891
Seller ID: 04185A
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 o... View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890
Seller ID: VN2172
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". View more info
By: Besant, Walter
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898
Seller ID: 89061
[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 Fri... View more info
By: Besant, Walter & James Rice
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1895
Seller ID: VN2046
Late-style Piccadilly novels binding: dark blue cloth elaborately blindtsamped, with lettering in gilt. Corners scuffed, front free endpaper excised, good. One of the least common of Besant & Rice's titles. 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 Farewell); & III From Fact (On the Goodwin, Edelwei... View more info
By: Bierce, Ambrose
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1915
Seller ID: VN0315
Undated pocket edition reprint, c1915. Original blue cloth. Board edges and spine sunned; grey war-time paper. A reading copy. View more info
By: Black, William
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1893
Seller ID: 01588
New and Revised Edition. Original uniform edition binding in dark green cloth. Crisp, bright, tight, very good. Three stories for boys set in the Outer Hebrides: tales of fishing, illicit whisky stills and an exotic French visitor. View more info
By: Blackmore, R. D. [Richard Doddridge Blackmore]
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1905
Seller ID: VN1338
The Globe Edition. Undated, c1905. Original fine-ribbed red cloth. Board edges lightly sunned, gilt decorations dulled/oxidised on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, good. Contains 4 stories: Slain by the Doones, Frida; or, The Lover's Leap, George Bowring & Crocker's Hole. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, The Clarion Newspaper Co.: 1901
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01456
Original pale green cloth, with dramatic cover illustration by Chesworth of a frightened man sitting up in bed. Spine lettering dulled, otherwise a good copy. A collection of tall stories, as might be told after dark in the barracks. View more info
