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An Electric Shock and Other Stories (1897)

By: Gerard, E. [Emily Gerard]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 96039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth, lettered in black. Cloth nicked on spine ends, corners rubbed, later endpapers, no half-title, good. Not in Wolff. Six stories with European settings. The title piece concerns the use of electric shocks in the treatment of paralysis, and is original to this volume. The other stories, which had previously appeared in various magazines are: The Portrait of Conceta P---, A Drama in Blue, The Attaman A Tale of the Kosaks, My Wife's Christmas Supper & The Price of a Necklace.
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Bis (1890)

By: Gerard, Emily

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1890

Seller ID: 03264

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Early C20th library binding: wavy-grained brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine (including shelf-marks), occasional library stamps ("The Noble Library, Lambeth") throughout, smudgy marks in margins: a good reading copy, of a scarce title. A collection of short stories and novelettes by the less well-known and less successful of the Gerard sisters. The stories are: Elias of Blotatyn, Two Robbers: A Legend, Magda's Cow, Grey Fur & His Uncle and Her Grandmother. The stories are reprinted from various journals, with the epigraph "Be well advised, tell o'er the tale again" -- Shake...
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In Pastures Green and Other Stories (1880)

By: Gibbon, Charles

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dublin & London, Chatto & Windus: 1883

Seller ID: 92116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Undated, c1883. Late C19th black leather over blue marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Extremities rubbed, with small chips at head of spine, initials (1883) and name stamp on half-title, light foxing, good. Contains 6 short stories/novellas: In Pastures Green, All in a Green Willow, Cancelled Engagements, Daft Tam, Dominie Barclay & A Paction wi' the Deil, displaying 3 stories in each of two of Gibbon's popular styles: English rustic and Scottish dialect. Scarce.
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The Dark Places A Volume of Stories (1926)

By: Gibbon, Perceval

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1928

Seller ID: VN0750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Second and Cheaper Edition. Rebound in brown leather over brown cloth covered boards. Ex-library copy, with labels and pocket on front endpapers, stamps on prelims and final page of text etc. Small chip at head of spine. A reading copy of a scarce title. The stories are: The English Tutor, Saint Flossie, Proxy, Spotless, The Man of Science & The Dark Ride.
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Those Who Smiled and Other Stories (1920)

By: Gibbon, Perceval

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1920

Seller ID: VN3111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original blue cloth, lettered in black. Spine faintly sunned, board edges (front and back) damp marked -- see photo. Contents in good order.
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Wrecked at the Outset (1894)

By: Gift, Theo [ie Theodora Boulger]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Jarrold & Sons: 1894

Seller ID: 95113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint, c1894. Original brown cloth with blindstamped art-nouveau design on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Very faintly sunned, signature (1914) on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Three short novels: Left Outside, Mrs Houghton Disappears and A Young Person. A remainder issue of the first edition, in a later publisher's binding.
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Human Odds and Ends. Stories and Sketches (1898) [1897]

By: Gissing, George

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, George Bell: 1897

Seller ID: VN2087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Bell's Indian & Colonial Library Edition. Pre-dates the English trade edition of 1898, with 1897 on title page. Ex-library (from the South African Public Library, later Fulham & Hammersmith.) Traces/remains of labels on boards, but no shelf marks; South African library rules plate on front pastedown, trace of plates, stamps etc on front endpapers, accession stamps on verso of title page, small oval stamp on first page of text. Corners rubbed, foxing spots: only a fair but tight copy of this scarce issue.
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Charity (1912)

By: Graham, R. B. Cunninghame [Richard Bontine Cunninghame Graham]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Duckworth & Co.: 1912

Seller ID: 93096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise very good. A collection of stories with settings from around the world.
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The Ipan (1899)

By: Graham, R. B. Cunninghame [Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1899

Seller ID: 86111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"The Over-Seas Library". Original yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in red and green. Editor's introduction to the series on front endpapers. Spine a little dulled, some marks on corner of rear board, good. Graham's first collection of stories and sketches.
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The Constable of France and Other Military Historiettes

By: Grant, James

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Co.: 1880

Seller ID: 01698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1880. Late C19th binding tan leather over red marbled boards. gilt lettering a little dulled on spine, foxing and previous owner's impressed address stamp on front endpapers, good
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The Queen's Cadet and Other Stories (1874)

By: Grant, James

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1874

Seller ID: 97050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Late C19th rebinding in crimson leather over maroon marbled boards; raised bands and gilt rules on spine. Light scuffing, foxing on early/late pages, signature (1875) on title page, otherwise very good. A collection of short stories. The first three -- The Queen's Cadet, The Spectre Hand and The Bombardier's Story -- are ghost stories, and the following six are tales of military adventure. The last section of the book is entitled Apparitions and Wonders and consists of sketches on the marvellous and supernatural. A rebound yellowback. Topp [I, p. 290] only held a later reprint from 1877.
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The Better Yarn Being Some Chronicles of the Merrythought Club (1919)

By: Greening, Arthur

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Jarrolds: 1919

Seller ID: VN2184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1919]. Original beige cloth, lettered in red and illustrated in black. A few light marks, small hand-written name and address on slip of paper attached to front free endpaper, pages lightly tanned on edges, otherwise very good. A miscellany of stories and sketches.
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Talis Qualis; or, Tales of the Jury Room (1842)

By: Griffin, Gerald

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Dublin, James Duffy: 1874

Seller ID: 04220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Recently rebound in full royal blue leather, lettered in gilt on spine. A little foxing, very good. A collection of stories told by a group of jurors, obliged to spend the night together, locked in a jury-room, while deciding a verdict. The format (of stories told by a group of people in one location) was later much used for Christmas numbers of journals such as Household Words, Chambers's etc.
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The Christian Physiologist and Other Tales (1830 as The Christian Physiologist, Tales Illustrative of the Five Senses)

By: Griffin, Gerald

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Dublin, James Duffy: 1860

Seller ID: 88108

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint [1860]. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. Original blindstamped green cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt on spine. Rubbed on spine ends, inner joint papers lightly cracked, bookplate on front pastedown, good. The "other Tales" are: A Night at Sea & Touch My Honour, Touch My Life.
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Tales for the Marines (1855)

By: Gringo, Harry [ie Lieutenant Henry Augustus Wise]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Ward and Lock: 1855

Seller ID: 00847

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First British Edition. Mid C19th black leather and grey marbled boards. Boards grazed, extremities rubbed, some soiling and brown spotting throughout; bookplate of Cooper's West End Circulating Library, Reading, on front pastedown and Cooper's Library in gilt at foot of spine, good. Tales of naval derring-do told by a Lieutenant to his young nephew. First published in Boston, Mass. in 1855. This edition was issued as a yellowback : see Sadleir [3639].
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Tales from the Terrace, Being a Westminster Week's Entertainment by An Old Parliamentary Hand (1896)

By: Guinee, W. B.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Downey & Co: 1898

Seller ID: VN2489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated "New Edition", c1898. Original wavy-grained mustard cloth, lettered in gilt. Front board speckled, rear board more marked with line across middle; internally clean and tight, good. The author's name appears only on the binding, not on the title page. Guinee had written a three-decker novel -- Talbot's Folly, 1882 -- and this appears to be his only other identifiable work of fiction. Short stories -- largely humorous -- dealings with the workings of the British parliament, and parliamentarians.
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The Canny Folks o'Coal-Vale (1910)

By: Guthrie, Ramsey

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, W. A. Hammond: 1910

Seller ID: VN3412

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece portrait of author. Illustrated. Original blue cloth, with art-nouveau decorations in pale blue and green, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Lightly scuffed, gift inscription (1918) on front free endpaper, very good. Tales of miner's and mining in County Durham.
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Alice Stanley and Other Stories (1868)

By: Hall, Mrs S. C. [ie Anna Maria Hall]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson: 1868

Seller ID: 04247

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"With Fine Steel Engravings". Original lilac cloth on bevelled boards with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Spine sunned with ancient repair to tips, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), gift inscription (1869) on front free endpaper, good. Nine stories: Alice Stanley, The Fisherman, The Soldier's Wife, Seven and Seventeen, The Rose of Fennock Dale, The Anxious Wife, We'll See About It, The Story of Edwin the Exile of Deira.
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The Mountain Daisy and Other Stories (1866)

By: Hall, Mrs S. C. [ie Anna Maria Hall]

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson: 1866

Seller ID: 89047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Unspecified but probably second issue. Illustrated. Original dark green cloth, with blindstamped framing and gilt decorations on front board, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine, cream endpapers. Gift inscription (1866) on front free endpaper, minimal foxing, near fine. A collection of ten short stories, which had originally appeared in periodicals: The Mountain Daisy, The Fisherman, The Rose of Fennock Dale, The Soldier's Wife, The Story of Elwin, Annie Leslie, We'll See About It, The Anxious Wife, Alice Stanley & Seven and Seventeen.The title was apparently originally used for a miscella...
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Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1840)

By: Hall, Mrs S. C. [ie Anna Maria Hall]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers: 1850

Seller ID: 89128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Mid C19th rebinding in tan leather over green beaded cloth; maroon title label on spine. A little rubbed on spine ends and corner pieces, tiny chip at head of spine, undated signature on front free endpaper, light foxing, good.
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