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By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1886
Seller ID: 02701
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. View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £15.00
Publisher: New York, Peter Fenllon Collier: 1900
Seller ID: VN0863
Volume 23 of Collier's Works of Wilkie Collins. Undated, c1900. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Paper faintly browned on page edges, indistinct signature on front free endpaper, otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy: very good. Collins's novel attacks the machinations of the Jesuits, although he counter-balances the villainous Father Benwell with the virtuous Arthur Penrose. View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, The Gresham Publishing Company: 1900
Seller ID: 81069
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 ... View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £12.00
Publisher: New York, Peter Fenelon Collier: 1900
Seller ID: VN1756
The Works of Wilkie Collins, Volume 17. Undated, c1900. Frontispiece. Original green cloth. Spine ends scuffed, a few marks on cloth, good. Collins's first published novel, written in imitation of Bulwer-Lytton: a tale of lecherous Roman senators, overly-devout fathers, innocent daughters and mad fanatical adherents of pagan religion: all set during Alaric's siege of Rome (408 - 10 AD) View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Blackie & Co.: 1934
Seller ID: VN1761
Undated Blackie edition, c1934. Illustrated. Original steel-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Gilt lettering a little dulled, otherwise a very crisp, bright, clean copy: near fine. Although some of the stories from the collection (such as A Terribly Strange Bed) have been much anthologised, Collins's original conception was to present a group of tales woven together with an interlinking narrative (Leaves from Leah's Diary) to form a single unified work. View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1894
Seller ID: 04114
New/Popular/Cheap Edition. Original green cloth on limp boards, decorated in black and lettered in gilt. Signature snipped out on title page, and replaced with near-matching piece of paper; otherwise a clean and tight copy, good. View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £10.00
Publisher: New York, Peter Fenelon Collier: 1900
Seller ID: VN1784
The Works of Wilkie Collins, Volume 30. Undated, c1900. Original dark green cloth. Cloth chipped at head of spine, otherwise good. Also contains two short stories: Miss Dulane and My Lord, Mr Policeman and the Cook. View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1873
Seller ID: VN1817
New Edition. Late C19th rebinding in red leather over marbled boards. Loss of leather on spine ends, corners rubbed, but ontents clean and tight. A good reading copy. View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1875
Seller ID: 88102
New Edition. Undated, c1875. Late C19th purple-black leather over purple cloth; tan leather title label on spine; cream endpapers. Top edges of boards faintly sunned, one corner piece scraped, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a clean, tight copy: good. Mrs or Mrs? is a short novel written as the Christmas Number for The Graphic. The additional stories are: Blow Up with the Brig!, The Fatal Cradle & A Mad Marriage. As this is a rebound yellowback, ... View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1886
Seller ID: VN2684
New Cheap Edition. Rebound in beaded purple binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine faintly sunned, a little scuffing, good++ View more info
By: Conway, Hugh [ie Frederick John Fargus]
Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Nash & Grayson: 1930
Seller ID: 03511
Undated reprint, c1930. Original pinky-red cloth. Spine lightly sunned, small label on front pastedown, good. Conway's first thriller was a huge success, but the author died very young without really fulfilling his potential. View more info
By: Conway, Hugh [ie Frederick John Fargus]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1886
Edition: Colonial Edition
Seller ID: 84065
Two volumes bound as one in late C19th maroon leather over maroon cloth; raised bands and gilt titles on spine. Light scuffing, foxing on prelims, otherwise very good. After making his name with a series of short "shilling shockers" Conway turned to writing of two substantial, full-length novels in the last year of his tragically short life. Living or Dead? and A Family Affair were both originally published as three-deckers -- but posthumously. View more info
By: Conway, Hugh [ie Frederick John Fargus]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, John & Robert Maxwell: 1885
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87057
Undated first edition [1885]. Late C20th rebinding in maroon cloth over red marbled boards; no title or lettering of any sort on binding. Clean, tight, very good. Conway shot to fame with the thriller Called Back in 1883. After his sudden and unexpected death from typhoid in May 1885 at the age of only 37, several posthumous works appeared including this scarce collection of shorter pieces: At What Cost, The Story of a Sculptor and Capital Wine. View more info
By: Conway, Hugh [ie Frederick John Fargus]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1885
Edition: Copyright Edition
Seller ID: 90026
Two volumes in late C19th turquoise cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; yellow endpapers, with labels for Anthony Newnham's Tauchnitz Collection on pastedowns. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, light foxing, very good. Todd [2357a/58]. First issues; series half-title bound in. The first of Conway's three full-length novels, originally issued as a three-decker. Much influenced by Wilkie Collins. View more info
By: Conway, Hugh [ie Frederick John Fargus]
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Britsol, J. W. Arrowsmith: 1885
Seller ID: VN2638
[Early reprint]. Bristol Library, Volume I. Original brown cloth, framed and lettered in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Rubbed on spine ends, lightly grazed on boards, good. First issued as a Christmas Annual in 1883, this short thriller became a runway bestseller. View more info
By: Conway, Hugh [ie Frederick John Fargus]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Britsol, J. W. Arrowsmith: 1886
Seller ID: VN2639
[Early reprint] Bristol Library, Volume I. Original brown cloth, framed and lettered in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, a little foxing, very good. First issued as a Christmas Annual in 1883, this short thriller became a runway bestseller. View more info
By: Courteney, Cecil
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Bevington & Co.: 1886
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 84038
Original light brown cloth on bevelled boards, with decorative bands in black head/foot of front board and spine, ruled and lettered in gilt; leaf-patterned endpapers. A little scuffed, boards slightly bowed, browning on endpapers, otherwise good. Scarce murder mystery: listed in Hubin. View more info
By: Cox, Sir Edmund C. [Sir Edmund Charles Cox]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Constable & Co.: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2542
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. View more info
By: Crawfurd, Oswald
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1896
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 84081
Chapman's Story Series. Frontispiece. Original navy blue cloth with art-nouveau flower design on front board, lettered in gilt; pale blue endpapers with poppy designs incorporating publisher's initials in brown. Extremities lightly rubbed, tiny chips to head of spine, foxing spots, otherwise good. Contains the novel The White Feather and two short stories: Sonia & Professor Hoffmann's "Folly". View more info
By: Cushing, Paul [ie Roland Alexander Wood-Seys]
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1890
Seller ID: VN0996
New Edition. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in red on front board, decorated in red and lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Trace of removed bookplate on rear board; bookplate of South African Public Library on front pastedown, their accession date stamp (31 August 1891) on title page with note in pen on verso, small stamp at head of first page of text. Cloth worn head/foot of spine, good reading copy. of a scarce title. A novel of village life in D... View more info
