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After Dark (1856)

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, The Gresham Publishing Company: 1900

Seller ID: 81069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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 Strange Bed, A Stolen Letter, Sister Rose, The Lady of Glenwith Grange, Gabriel's Marriage & The Yellow Mask), with a linking...
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From the French. Ten Tales. Translated by Walter Learned

By: Coppee, Francois

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co: 1892

Seller ID: VN2239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original brown cloth, framed and decorated in silver, lettered in black. Spine ends split and chipped, undated signature on half title, fair/good.
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A True Boy and Other Stories

By: Corbett, Rev. Martin

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Dublin, Irish Messenger Office: 1913

Seller ID: VN2333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Fifteenth Thousand. Irish Messenger Series, Boys' Stories--No 1. Red beaded cloth, lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, good.
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The Love of Long Ago and Other Stories (1920)

By: Corelli, Marie

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1920

Seller ID: 91077a

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Three Bachelor Women and Other Stories (1899

By: Cosby, E. [Elizabeth Cosby]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.: 1899

Seller ID: VN2409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Only a Butterfly and Other Stories (1873)

By: Craik, Georgiana M. [Georgiana Marion Craik]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1874

Seller ID: 04436

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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?, Little Barbara.
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Faerylands Forlorn. African Tales (1910)

By: Cripps, Arthur Shearly

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Oxford, B. H. Blackwell: 1910

Seller ID: VN1971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine quite sunned, otherwise good. A collection of stories from Southern Africa.
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One Pretty Maid and Others (1904)

By: Crommelin, May [ie Maria de la Cherois-Crommelin]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, John Long: 1904

Seller ID: 95084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, a few light marks, light foxing, small nicks to head of spine,circular bookplate on front pastedown, good. The title follows the adventures (both serious and comic) of Alice Hughes, who becomes a housemaid to avoid an unwanted proposal of marriage. She deals with an alcoholic lodger, burglars, a house fire, being jilted and swindled and learns the important moral: "Trust no man, however old". Followed by six short stories.
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Daughters of Heaven (1920)

By: Cross Victoria [ie Annie (or Vivian) Cory]:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1920

Seller ID: 93162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1920]. Colour frontispiece portrait of author. Original blue cloth, lettered in black. Corners scuffed, a few light marks on boards, a little foxing, otherwise good. "Sons and Daughters of Heaven/What is your heritage here?/Pain and sorrow and sighing/Weeping and toil and care". A collection of nine short stories about women and their suffering.
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Life is a Dream (1914)

By: Curle, Richard

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 04435

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 Velvet Suit, Going Home, The Look-Out, A Memory, Consolation, The Emerald Seeker.
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In Tent and Bungalow (1894)

By: Cuthell, Edith E.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co: 1894

Seller ID: 86063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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".
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In the First Watch and Other Engine-Room Stories (1907)

By: Dalziel, James

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1907

Seller ID: VN0929

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Miss Armstrong's and Other Circumstances (1896)

By: Davidson, John

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 03822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

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 Perfervid (1890), and drowned himself at the age of 52, fearing that he had cancer. This is a collection of 10 short stories: ...
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The Exiles and Other Stories (1894)

By: Davis, Richard Harding

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co: 1894

Seller ID: 86101

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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Gallegher and Other Stories (1891)

By: Davis, Richard Harding

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: VN2711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"Red Letter Stories " series. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, some faint marks on boards, signatures (1897) on prelims, a little foxing, good. First British edition of short story collection originally published in New York in the same year.
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The Headquarter Recruit and Other Stories (1913)

By: Dehan, Richard [ie Clotilda Graves]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1913

Seller ID: VN0914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original greeny-yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, a little foxing, very good. Graves adopted her male persona/pseudonym for the highly successful Dop Doctor (1911) and continued to use it thereafter. The Headquarter Recruit is a collection of 18 short stories, concerning soldiers and their families -- a subject in keeping with Graves's new identity. The stories originally appeared in The World and other journals.
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The Last Galley. Impressions and Tales (1911)

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1911

Seller ID: 94095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Early C20th black leather over maroon marbled boards. Rubbed on spine ends, with 22mm loss at foot, good. Todd [4260a]. First issue; series half-title bound in. A collection of short stories.
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The Passing of the Flagship and Other Stories

By: Drury, Major W. P.

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1906

Seller ID: VN0276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Third Edition. original salmon pink cloth, lettered and illustrated in black. light scuffing, a some foxing (especially on prelims), good. 10 short stories: The Passing of the Flagship, The Dragon of Pyramid Hill, Aceldama, The Blank File, An Audience of Her Majesty, Casserbanker the Second, Concerning a Treaty with France, The Stranger within the Gates, The Rising of Joga & That Which Was Lost.
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A Baker's Dozen (1922)

By: Dudeney, Mrs Henry [ie Alice Dudeney]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London., William Heinemann: 1922

Seller ID: 83011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pale grey cloth, framed in black on boards and lettered in black on spine; bound without separate endpapers (ie first and last page of first and last gathering have become pastedowns). Spine a little darkened, otherwise good. Collection of thirteen short stories. The slightly odd binding up of this book suggests it may be a remainder issue.
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Men of Marlowe's (1900)

By: Dudeney, Mrs Henry [ie Alice Dudeney]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, John Long: 1900

Seller ID: 86089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original dark cream cloth, lettered and decorated in crimson on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine little darkened and lettering dulled, endpapers browned, good. A mixed collection of stories including some crime (the title is listed in Hubin): the connecting link being an imaginary Inn of Court called Marlowe's.
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