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Take One at Night (1919)

By: Howard, Keble [ie John Keble Bell]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Skeffington & Son: 1919

Seller ID: VN2336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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
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A Treasury of New Favourite Tales for Young People (1861)

By: Howitt, Mary

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, James Hogg & Sons: 1861

Seller ID: 00848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 stories by Harry Gringo, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Oliver Optic etc.
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Studies for Stories from Girls' Lives (1864)

By: Ingelow, Jean

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Wells Gardner, Darnton & Co: 1889

Seller ID: 03843

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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
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"£50,000 and Other Stories" (1902)

By: Jackson, J. Dodd [James Dodd Jackson]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Arthur H. Stockwell: 1902

Seller ID: 86061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"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.
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Night Watches (1914)

By: Jacobs, W. W. [William Wymark Jacobs]

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1916

Seller ID: VN0525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1916. Original illustrated pale blue cloth. Lightly bumped, a few foxing spots, good.
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The Roll of Drums (1880)

By: Jephson, R. Mounteney [Richard Mounteney Jephson]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1890

Seller ID: 03458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint, c1890. Frontispiece. Original two-tone cloth: navy-blue spine lettered in gilt, with maroon boards; monogrammed endpapers. Light sunning, light scuffing, otherwise very good. "These stories are essentially military" (Author's Preface). 6 short stories: The Roll of the Drum, A Race for a Life, A Rough Cruise in Smooth Waters, The Adjutant's Story, Taming a Tiger & Our Travellers' Bungalow.
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The Popular Tales

By: Jerrold, Douglas

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Glasgow/London, Thomas D. Morrison/Simpkin, Marshall & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 01638

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Third Edition, no date (c1900). Frontispiece. Original royal blue cloth, blocked in gilt on spine. Paper browned on edges, minor scuffing, otherwise very good. Contains: Joe Pippins; The Manager's Pig; The Mayor of Hole-Cum-Corner; The Tapestry Weaver of Beauvais; The Metaphysician and the Maid; Jack Runnymede; The Romance of the Keyhole; Adam Buff; The Preacher Parrot; Matthew Clear; Kind Cousin Tom; John Applejohn; My Husband's Winnings; The Lives of Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson; Barnaby Palms; The Genteel Pigeons; The Old House in the City; Baron von Boots; Christopher Snub; Patty Larks...
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Cakes and Ale (1842)

By: Jerrold, Douglas

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury & Evans: 1852

Seller ID: 02513

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume 4 in the Collected Works of Douglas Jerrold. C19th red leather over red marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; red marbled endpapers. Paper rubbed on board edges, a little light foxing, very good.
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The Brownrigg Papers (1860)

By: Jerrold, Douglas

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, John Camden Hotten: 1860

Seller ID: 02641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edited by Blanchard Jerrold. Coloured frontispiece. Original blindstamped lilac cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; green endpapers. Spine and board edges sunned, traces of removed bookplate on front pastedown, paper chipped on inner joints, a little foxing, good. A posthumous collection of short stories and articles, edited by the author's son
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Cakes and Ale (1842)

By: Jerrold, Douglas

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1888

Seller ID: VN1489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated edition, but with publisher's catalogue dated 7.88 bound in at end. original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; flower-patterned endpapers. corners scuffed, light foxing throughout, good. A collection short stories.
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Cakes and Ale (1842)

By: Jerrold, Douglas

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury & Evans: 1852

Seller ID: VN1871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Volume 4 in the Collected Works of Douglas Jerrold.Original black cloth, letterfed in gilt on spine. Spine ends chipped, otherwise good.
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In Love with the Czarina and Other Tales (1894)

By: Jokai, Morus [Mor Jokai]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 04334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Translated from the original Hungarian with the author's special permission by Louis Felbermann. "Special Authorized Edition" (ie First Edition). Undated first [1894]. Frontispiece portrait of author. Late C19th circulating library rebinding in maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Corners and spine ends scuffed, good. A scarce set of short stories (collected for this edition): In Love with the Czarina, Tamerlan the Tartar, Valdivia, Bizeban, The Moonlight Somnabulist.
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The Last Recruit of Clare's. Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon, Chevalier of St. Louis, and Late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France (1897)

By: Keightley, S. R. [Sir Samuel Robert Keightley]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 93102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1897]. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, with small nicks head/foot, a little foxing, good. Six linked stories of various lengths -- the first a brief eight pages, the last almost one hundred.
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Slavery: Pictures from the Depths (1905)

By: Kennedy, Bart

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Anthony Treherne: 1905

Seller ID: 95037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Light rubbing, signature on title page, otherwise very good. Sketches and tales of the toiling proletariat. Radical working-class writing.
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Visions (1905)

By: Kernahan, [John] Coulson

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1905

Seller ID: MC217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Decorated title page printed in red and black. Original orange cloth, with art-nouveau decorations and lettering in gilt. Edges scuffed, spine lightly sunned and nicked at head, moderate foxing throughout, inscription (Xmas, 1905) on front free endpaper, good. A collection of short works, imaginative and religious: four had previously been published as pamphlets, three come from A Book of Strange Sins, and three are entirely new pieces.
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Tales of Old Travel Re-Narrated by Henry Kingsley (1869)

By: Kingsley, Henry

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1869

Seller ID: 03608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8 plates & vignette title page. Original green cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Brown endpapers. Rubbed on corners, with chips to cloth at foot of spine; paper on inner joints cracked (but joints tight), bookplate of front pastedown, fair. All plates present but the location of two is different to that given in the List of Plates.
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Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides (1923)

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1926

Seller ID: VN0123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth over blue and black mottled paper-covered boards. A little light scuffing, small Italian bookseller's stamp on front pastedown, very good. Todd [4746a] First issue; series half-title bound in.
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The Day's Work (1898)

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 04047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth, with decorative band and lettering in gilt. Minimal scuffing, a little faint foxing, otherwise very good.
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Higgledy-Piggledy or Stories for Everybody and Everybody's Children (1875)

By: Knatchbull-Hugessen, Rt. Hon. E[dward] H[ugessen]:

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1875

Seller ID: 01840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated. Contemporary red leather over pink cloth. Corners scuffed, a few marks, light foxing: lacks one plate, chip/split to leather at head of upper hinge, leather rubbed on edges: fair to good copy of this scarce title.
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The Romance of a Hill Station and Other Stories (1901)

By: Laverton, Mrs H. S. [aka "Valete"]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1901

Seller ID: VN2910

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated. Original illustrated grey-green cloth, lettered in red and gilt. Spine a little sunned, with 3 cm tear to head of lower hinge, otherwise fair/good. Short stories set in a Hill Station -- a cool upland retreat of administrators and their families in India under the British Empire.
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