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Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Daldy, Isbister & Co.: 1878
Seller ID: 03447
Fifth Edition. Illustrated. Original crimson cloth, framed, decorated and lettered in black and gilt, brown endpapers. Lightly sunned on spine, corners bumped, very good. First issued as a three-decker by Strahan in 1873. Issued anonymously as "by the author of The Schönberg-Cotta Family". View more info
By: Clowes, Sir W. Laird, Kt [William Laird Clowes]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Anthony Trehern: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91085
Original beige cloth lettered and illustrated on front board in black and grey, lettered in gilt on spine.A little soiled, corners scuffed, undated inscription in pencil on front pastedown, good only. Clowes wrote on naval matters, but is probably best known for his future war novel, The Captain of the Mary Rose, A Tale of Tomorrow (1892). The stories in this collection are in a lighter vein: "They are stories without any purpose. They do not touch on problems of the... View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, The Gresham Publishing Company: 1900
Seller ID: 81069
Undated edition, c1900 - 1905. Introduction by W. A. Brockington. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. Original steel-blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; grey endpapers. Scuffed on spine ends, with small nick at foot, very good. Gresham published this title in at least three different bindings: maroon leather with green boards, a decorated navy blue cloth with designs by Talwyn Morris, and this simpler blue cloth. After Dark consists of six stories (A Terribly ... View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Blackie & Co.: 1934
Seller ID: VN1761
Undated Blackie edition, c1934. Illustrated. Original steel-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Gilt lettering a little dulled, otherwise a very crisp, bright, clean copy: near fine. Although some of the stories from the collection (such as A Terribly Strange Bed) have been much anthologised, Collins's original conception was to present a group of tales woven together with an interlinking narrative (Leaves from Leah's Diary) to form a single unified work. View more info
By: Coppee, Francois
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co: 1892
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: VN2239
Original brown cloth, framed and decorated in silver, lettered in black. Spine ends split and chipped, undated signature on half title, fair/good. View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Dublin, Irish Messenger Office: 1913
Seller ID: VN2333
New Edition, Fifteenth Thousand. Irish Messenger Series, Boys' Stories--No 1. Red beaded cloth, lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, good. View more info
By: Corelli, Marie
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co: 1896
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03335
Undated first [1896]. Frontispiece and decorated title page. Original green cloth, with cameo (in white on brown) embossed on front board; green endpapers; top edge gilt. Corners scuffed, light wear to cameo, very good. 15 short stories: God's Light on the Mountains, The Hired Baby, Nehemiah P. Hoskins Artist, The Silence of the Maharajah, Three Wide Men of Gotham, The Lady with the Carnations, An Old Bundle, Mademoiselle Zéphyr, One of the World's Wonders, Angel's Wick... View more info
By: Corelli, Marie
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1920
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91076
Original light blue cloth, lettered in white on spine. Spine just faintly sunned, some foxing, otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy: very good. One of the four Corelli titles not in Wolff. A collection of fifteen short stories. This copy is in a variant binding -- other copies have a decorative framing on the boards and spine. View more info
By: Corelli, Marie
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1920
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91077a
Original light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in pale blue-green. Spine ends scuffed, boards lightly marked, some foxing, good. Publisher's catalogue (undated) bound in at end. One of the four Corelli titles not in Wolff. A collection of fifteen short stories. View more info
By: Cosby, E. [Elizabeth Cosby]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.: 1899
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2409
Original deep pink moire cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Boards edges and spine darkened, a little scuffing, name stamp etc on front free endpaper and on first of text, good. a collection of short stories, including a parody of Iota's A Yellow Aster. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1893
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88104
Original light brown cloth with peacock feather design on boards and spine, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine ends rubbed, wrinkle to cloth on front board, a few small marks on rear board, inner joint papers lightly cracked, undated signature on front pastedown, good. Publisher's catalogue for October 1892 bound in at end. A collection of short stories by one of the contributors to The Yellow Book. View more info
By: Craik, Georgiana M. [Georgiana Marion Craik]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1874
Edition: Copyright Edition
Seller ID: 04436
Mid C19th brown leather over mottled black, white and green boards; raised bands and black leather title label on spine; green marbled endpapers. Small chip to leather at head of spine, rubbing to foot of spine, some edgewear, foxing spots, a couple of small ink-spots on margins of pages 18-19, good. Todd [1435a]. First issue; series half-title bound in. A collection of six stories: Only a Butterfly, Elspeth Grant, Lost at Sea, The Old Lifeboat, Was Elizabeth Right?, Lit... View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Oxford, B. H. Blackwell: 1910
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN1971
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine quite sunned, otherwise good. A collection of stories from Southern Africa. View more info
By: Crommelin, May [ie Maria de la Cherois-Crommelin]
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2648
Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine ends nicked, some light marks on boards, traces of removed bookplate on front pastedown, good. Collection of seven short stories: One Pretty Maid, How Wilkins Went in Search of his Family Tree, A Sad Day's Eve, The Boy That Followed the Drum, A Jubilee Quartette, A Pretty Pair, The Holiday Governess. View more info
By: Crommelin, May [ie Maria de la Cherois-Crommelin]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04375
Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, a few light marks, light foxing, good. Collection of seven short stories: One Pretty Maid, How Wilkins Went in Search of his Family Tree, A Sad Day's Eve, The Boy That Followed the Drum, A Jubilee Quartette, A Pretty Pair, The Holiday Governess. View more info
By: Curle, Richard
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.: 1914
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04435
Original green cloth with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt. Front free endpaper tipped in, light foxing, otherwise a bright, tight copy: good. Curle corresponded with, and was assistant and eventually literary executor to, Joseph Conrad -- who, in turn, dedicated The Arrow of Gold to him. But Curle was also a short-story writer in his own right. Life is a Dream was his second collection, containing nine stories: Old Hoskyns, A Remittance Man, Blanca Palillos, The V... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1894
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86063
Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in silver on spine. Extremities scuffed, small nicks on spine ends, a number of marks on boards, occasional foxing spots and pencil marks in margins, undated signature on front free endpaper, good. Indian stories. Published anonymously as "by the author of Indian Idylls". View more info
By: Dalziel, James
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0929
Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, a little foxing and browning, stamp (Joint Fiction Reserve) on verso of title page, good. 14 tales set in and around the engine-rooms and engineers in steam ships. The stories include the Kiplingesque Voice of the Machine which anthropomorphises piston valves and connecting rods. View more info
By: Davidson, John
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1896
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03822
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Ex-library with trace of plates on front endpapers, stamps on title page (recto/verso) and first/last pages of text. Loss of cloth to head and foot of spine, but contents (library stamps apart) in good order. A working/reading copy only of a scarce title. Publisher's catalogue for March 1896 bound in at end. Remaindered copies were later issued in blue cloth. Davidson was a contributor to The Yellow Book, author of the extravaganza P... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co: 1894
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 86101
Original fine-ribbed olive green cloth with decorative border in red, black and yellow head and foot of front board and spine, lettered in black. Minimal scuffing, minimal foxing, near fine. Seven stories. The binding has Harpers name rather than Osgood's at the foot of the spine (Osgood had been Harpers' London agent): but the binding is completely different from that of the American first. View more info
