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John Marchmont's Legacy (1863)

By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler: 1875

Seller ID: 98228

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Revised Edition. Undated, c1875. Late C19th rebinding in crimson leather over maroon marbled boards; raised bands and gilt rules on spine. Small scrape to paper at foot of front board, dark area to leather on top half of spine with obscuring of gilt title lettering, foxing on early/late pages, otherwise good.
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Aurora Floyd A Drama in Two Acts Adapted from Miss Braddon's Popular Work of the Same Name (1863)

By: Braddon, M. E.] Suter, William, adapted from the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Introductory material by Jennifer Carnell

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Hastings, Sensation Press: 2008

Seller ID: VN2881

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

One of a limited edition of 150 copies, signed by the editor. Staple bound paperback. Minimal signs of wear, very good.
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A Double Scoop (1924)

By: Cable, Boyd [ie Ernest Andrew Ewart]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 04116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1924]. Publisher's remainder binding: maroon cloth, with blindstamped borders on boards, and art-nouveau flower designs on spine, lettered in gilt. Lettering on spine oxidised, otherwise very good. Semi-humorous crime novel (listed in Hubin). Chuck Summers pursues clues to the disappearance of William Goodenough, through Australa and the Far East. Cable/Ewart wrote two crime novels and a collection of short stories (his best known works relate his experiences in the trenches during the First World War). Publisher's catalogue for Autumn 1924 bound in at end.
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Prisoners (Fast Bound in Misery and Iron) (1906)

By: Cholmondeley, Mary

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: VN1849

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated reprint in 7d Copyright series (c1910). Spine sunned and cloth marked; lacks front free endpaper, fair. A reading copy.
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I Say No (1884)

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1886

Seller ID: 02701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Late C19th brown beaded cloth, with (presumably) original leatherwork replaced at later date by brown fabric; pale brown card endpapers. Light browning on prelims, good.
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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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I Say No (1884)

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1886

Seller ID: VN2684

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Cheap Edition. Rebound in beaded purple binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine faintly sunned, a little scuffing, good++
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Miss or Mrs? (1873)

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1872

Seller ID: 94092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[First Book Issue]. Late C19th cream parchment over red and black mottled paper-covered boards; red leather title label on spine. Spine a little darkened, title label rubbed on edges, boards grazed and rubbed on edges, a little foxing; otherwise a tight copy, good. Todd [1233A]. First setting: precedes the London edition by 6 months.
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The New Magdalen (1873)

By: Collins, Wilkie

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Tauchnitz: 1873

Seller ID: 98241

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two volumes uniformly bound in late C19th dark green leather over green marbled boards; raised bands and gilt decorations on spines; light brown marbled endpapers; silk bookmarks. Spines darkened, chipping to paper on board edges, front inner joint on volume I reinforced, foxing on prelims, a little shaken, fair/good. Todd [1325a/26a]. First issues; series half-titles bound in.
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The Dead Secret.and Other Tales (1857)

By: Collins, Wilkie etc

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Tauchnitz: 1875

Seller ID: 98240

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dated 1857, but actually from around 1875. Two volumes uniformly bound in late C19th dark green leather over green marbled boards; raised bands and gilt decorations on spines; light brown marbled endpapers; silk bookmarks. Corners lightly rubbed, spines darkened, series half-title in second volume repaired, otherwise good. Todd [386b & 409b]. Series half-titles bound in. Originally issued by Tauchnitz as part of Novels and Tales Reprinted from Household Words (eleven volumes published at intervals 1856 - 7). This second issue (probably from around 1873 -5) was issued as a stand-alone title und...
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The Exploits of Kesho Naik, Dacoit (1912)

By: Cox, Sir Edmund C. [Sir Edmund Charles Cox]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Constable & Co.: 1912

Seller ID: VN2542

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red buckram, blindstamped on front board, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, spine lettering oxidised to brown/black, a little foxing, good. The third of Cox's Indian crime books. Krishna, a minor character in John Carruthers Indian Policeman (1905) and The Achievements of John Carruthers (1911), here takes on the role of narrator, telling the story of an audacious bandit. NB. A variant binding: also issued in blue cloth.
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The Story Behind the Verdict (1915)

By: Danby, Frank [ie Julia Frankau]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: VN3558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Coloured frontispiece. Original blue-grey cloth, lettered in gilt. Light creasing and warping to boards, spine lettered dulled/oxidised, contents in order, fair. Nine linked crime stories. Listed in Hubin. Scarce. "Everybody both in and out of London...knew of the Keightley Wilburs. To begin with, their relationship was peculiar. To continue, so were they. Plutocrats...mother and son, yet lovers and intimate companions living together in a rare and perfect sympathy. Keightley wrote plays, poems, essays, professed Socialism and practised the occult...Accident led him into his adventure into cri...
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The History of Godfrey Kinge (1896)

By: Dawe, W. Carlton [William Carlton Dawe]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: 02898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated reprint, c1901. Original red cloth, with blindstamped designs on front board/spine: lettered in gilt. Small label for South African Public Library on rear board and their list of rules on front pastedown. Front free endpaper excised, acquisition stamp (June 1901) and handwritten note on verso of title page. A little foxing. No library markings on binding. An adventure novel by an Australian novelist: this story set principally in Devon and London. A decent reading copy of a scarce title.
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Tinsley's Magazine Christmas Numbers for 1880 & 1881. High-Water Mark & My Darling's Ransom

By: Dowling, Richard

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Tinsley Brothers: 1881

Seller ID: 94067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two Christmas numbers bound (without original wrappers) in late C19th grey-green cloth, lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. A few light marks, good. Two short crime/mystery novels. Scarce.
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The Convict Colonel

By: Du Boisgobey, Fortun

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul & Co.: 1920

Seller ID: 01697

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint: The International Library, no date (c1920). Frontispiece. Original blindstamped navy blue cloth, decorated in gilt on spine. A crisp, bright copy, very good.
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The Chronicles of Cardewe Manor (1891)

By: Farmer, Lucy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: VN2692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Idle Hour Series. Undated, c1891. Frontispiece. Dark grey cloth spine lettered in gilt, with blue title label; dark green and gilt boards with blindstamped designs; grey and white patterned endpapers. Extremities scuffed, edges of spine label chipped, child's doodling (with spirograph) on 3 prelims. Doodles apart, a good copy of this collection of twelve crime/mystery stories originally published in Cassell's Family Magazine. The narrator/heroine is (at least initially) a lady's maid in service to Mrs Cardewe of Cardewe Manor.
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The Wolves and the Lamb (1914)

By: Fletcher, J. S. [Joseph Smith Fletcher]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 95052

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original blindstamped green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Minimal scuffing, foxing, otherwise very good.
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The Champdoce Mystery. A Sequel to "Caught in the Net".

By: Gaboriau, Emile

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 03518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated English edition (c1910), printed in the U. S. A. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A few light marks on cloth, corners bumped, light foxing, very good.
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The Mystery of Orcival

By: Gaboriau, Emile

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Richard Butterworth: 1900

Seller ID: VN3450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1900. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Paper tanned throughout, armorial bookplate of Henry Newall [of] Litteborough on front pastedown, good.
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Ombra the Mystery (1904)

By: Graves, Frederick

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, George A. Morton: 1904

Seller ID: VN2272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pink cloth, lettered in dark red (gilt on spine); dark red endpapers. Spine rubbed on tipped and sunned to brown, some sunning and marking on boards, corners lightly rubbed, undated inscription on verso of front free endpaper, good. Scarce and obscure novel with elements of crime and mystery. The narrator hero rescues the mysterious Ombra from a suicide attempt: she influences his life as the action moves to Edinburgh and later Venice and an unexpected end....
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