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By: Herman, Henry
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Digby, Long & Co.: 1907
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 85022
Original fine-ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt. Some spots to cloth along spine edge of rear board, foxing, good. Posthumous collection of nine short stories, many with American settings, reflecting Herman's own time in the U. S. A. View more info
By: Hewlett, Maurice
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02640
Original blue cloth, with repeated pattern of blindstamped hearts. Minimal scuffing, otherwise a very bright, crisp copy, near fine. Contains 4 stories: The Heart's Key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte's Saga & The Love Chase. View more info
By: Hewlett, Maurice
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0621
Original blue cloth, with repeated pattern of blindstamped hearts. Minimal scuffing, otherwise very good. Contains 4 stories: The Heart's Key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte's Saga & The Love Chase. View more info
By: Hewson, J. James
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2569
Original fine-ribbed green cloth, lettered in black & gilt. A few faint marks, otherwise very good. A miscellaneous collection of stories, mainly humorous. Hewson was principally a man of the theatre, and wrote a number of plays and pantomimes in the decades spanning the turn of the twentieth century. View more info
By: Hichens, Robert
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01401
Original pale green cloth. Lightly sunned on spine, with faint water mark at head, a little light foxing, otherwise good. Scarce collection of stories: My Desert Friend, The Under-Man, The Surgeon's Story, Dreams Fade, Prescott-Smith's Victim & Little Marguerite. View more info
By: Hichens, Robert
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89134
Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine a little sunned, a few faint marks, some foxing spots, undated signature on front free endpaper, good+. Collection of 12 short stories, including 4 with supernatural themes: The Black Spaniel, The Desert Drum, The Princess and the Jewel Doctor, The Figure in the Mirage. The title piece concerns a man who tortures his pet spaniel and is (or may be) reincarnated in spaniel form. View more info
By: Hichens, Robert
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 90049
Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, light marking on boards, corners scuffed, a few foxing spots, good. Publisher's catalogue dated September 1897 bound in at end. A collection of short stories including two with supernatural/horror themes: The Charmer of Snakes & A Tribute of Souls (the latter being written in conjunction with Lord Frederic Hamilton). View more info
By: Hilarion [ie Campbell Mackellar]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Eden, Remington & Co.: 1892
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 90028
Original brown cloth decorated in black and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Knock (with small tear) to side of spine, a little rubbing on spine tips to cloth on spine, fair/good. McKellar was an Australian writer (born in Hamilton, Victoria in 1859) who appears to have settled in England. Gräfin Rinsky is a sensational short novel: the other stories are: That American Girl & The Green Hills Far Away. Listed in Hubin. Also issued in red cloth View more info
By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Grainger]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1897
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 85114
Original illustrated green cloth, lettered in red, black and gilt. Corners lightly scuffed, foxing spots on early pages, tear to edge of blank prelim, otherwise very good. Tales of the Kentish coast during the Napoleonic Wars. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2329
Four illustrations in colour. Variant binding: original red cloth lettered in white (other copies have white lines on front board and a gun in white on the spine). Spine sunned, some light foxing, very good. Three detective stories: the first set in London, the second two in America. Uncommon View more info
By: Hopkins, Tighe
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 83053
Title page printed in red and black. Original pale green cloth, illustrated (prison warder and door) in black, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, a little faint foxing, very good. Eleven stories of imprisonment, prisoners, criminals and their families. Scarce. View more info
By: Hornung, E. W. [Ernest William Hornung]
Price: £8.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1907
Seller ID: VN0483
Reprint. Original fine-ribbed crimson cloth. Chipped at head of spine. Spine sunned with lettering oxidised. A collection of short stories View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1905
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02545
Original green-brown cloth, blocked in gilt. Light scuffing, scattered foxing throughout, trace of removed label on front board, otherwise very good. 7 short stories: The Cloak of Friendship, Little Saint Michael, Damien the Worshipper, The House of Rimmon, The Troubling of the Waters, The Love-Child, The Staff of Life. View more info
By: Howard, Keble [ie John Keble Bell]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Skeffington & Son: 1919
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2336
Original pale blue cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Spine a little sunned, light stain on corner of front free endpaper and following blank page, endpapers browned, good+. A collection of mostly humorous short stories in three sections: For Married People, For Sentimental People & For Sleepy People. Scarce View more info
By: Howitt, Mary
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, James Hogg & Sons: 1861
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00848
First Edition, no date [1861]. Illustrated by Palmer and Coleman. Mid C19th black leather with blue and red marbled boards. Spine gummed to text-block: consequently creases upon opening. Edges rubbed and boards grazed; light spotting/foxing throughout; bookplate of Cooper's West End Circulating Library, Reading, on front pastedown, Cooper's Library at foot of spine, good. Contains 2 stories by Mary Howitt: The Lords of Wyven & The Little Peacemaker, and a further 12 stor... View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1914
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 03229
Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Cloth lightly soiled, foxing, owner's name stamp on front free endpaper and title page, otherwise good. A short novel (Firemen Hot), plus 5 short stories: Anchored, Delilah and the Seal Raid, The Cutter and the Queen, The Mahogany Concession & Gemini View more info
By: Ingelow, Jean
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Wells Gardner, Darnton & Co: 1889
Seller ID: 03843
First Thus. Frontispiece. Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated in gilt, blue and black; grey endpapers. Corners scuffed, spine faintly sunned, very good. A collection of novelettes. Originally published as a two-decker by Strahan in 1864. Wells Gardner reissued the book in 1889 and reprinted in again in 1902 View more info
By: Jacberns, Raymond [ie Georgina Ash]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN1974
Original fine-ribbed grey cloth, with illustration of fairy on toadstool in silver on front board, decorated in black on spine, lettered in silver; black endpapers. Scuffed, otherwise very good. Fairy stories set in Germany, Italy etc. Scarce View more info
By: Jackson, J. Dodd [James Dodd Jackson]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Arthur H. Stockwell: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86061
"Popular Stories No XVI". Frontispiece. Original blue cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Paper lightly tanned throughout, hand-typed prize plate on front free endpaper, good. Crime and other stories. View more info
By: Jacob, Violet
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1922
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86059
Original red cloth with decorative framing in black on front boards and spine, lettered in gilt on spine. Minimal scuffing, gilt oxidised on spine, moderate foxing/spotting on early pages, otherwise very good. Eleven short stories with Scottish settings. View more info
