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The Lodestar (1907)

By: Pemberton, Max

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 02352

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original black cloth, with repeated impressed pattern on tiny gold squares; illustration on glazed paper inset on front boards. Spine tips rubbed, corners bumped and rubbed, chip to bottom edge of illustration on front board, foxing throughout, W. H. Smith's bookplate on front pastedown, fair/good.
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Red Tape (1910)

By: Philips, Austin

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: VN2419

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pink cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, in black on front board. Corners bumped, light scuffing, some foxing/marking on endpapers, otherwise very good. A collection of short stories including some crime. Scarce.
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Young Mr Ainslie's Courtship (1889)

By: Philips, F. C. [Francis Charles Philips]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: VN2669A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt, black endpapers. Extremities scuffed, signature and disparaging remarks in pencil on prelims, a couple of underlinings (in pencil), good. The novel was reissued in 1911 under a new title: The Wicked Miss Keane.
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Sybil Ross's Marriage: The Romance of an Inexperienced Girl (1890)

By: Philips, F. C. [Francis Charles Philips] & C. J. Wills [Charles James Wills]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: VN2907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original light brown cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine; patterned gree endpapers. A few light marks, spine ends scuffed, , bookplate on front free endpaper, corner torn fronm half-title, good. F. C. Philips wrote numerous novels and short story collections by himself but also in collaboration with other novelists, including 4 with C. J. Wills.
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New Chronicles of Don Q (1906)

By: Prichard, K. [Kate] & Hesketh

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1906

Seller ID: VN3039

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth with illustration on glazed paper inset in centre of front board; lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Illustrated by Stanley L. Woods. Corners rubbed, boards grazed, spine ends rubbed and nicked with small repair at foot, foxing, undated signature on front endpapers, fair/good. The writers were mother and son. This is the second book of stories featuring Don Q, a fearsome Spanish Robin Hood figure. Scarce.
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It Is Never Too Late to Mend. A Matter-of-Fact Romance (1856)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1882

Seller ID: 03798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Undated on title page but with publisher's catalogue for 1882. Frontispiece and vignette title. Original red cloth blocked in black, gilt lettering on spine; purple-and-white flower-patterned endpapers. Corners a little rubbed, spine faintly sunned, light splash marks on lower corner of rear board, otherwise good. Reade's breakthrough success: a sprawling melodrama encompassing evil machinations in Berkshire, wild adventures in the goldfields of Australia and the disturbing cruelty and horror of life in B-- Gaol.
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Christie Johnstone (1853)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1886

Seller ID: 02716

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Undated on title page but with publisher's catalogue for 1886. Frontispiece and vignette title. Original red cloth blocked in black, gilt lettering on spine; green-and-white patterned endpapers. Spine darkened, large chip and split to cloth at head of spine, smaller chip at foot. Internally clean: a reading/rebinding copy. A romance of artists and fisherfolk on the Scottish coast near Edinburgh.
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Put Yourself in His Place (1870)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1894

Seller ID: VN1447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Rebound yellowback. C20th Blue marbled boards with navy blue cloth spine, maroon leather title label on spine; brown endpapers. light scufiing, light foxing, very good. The inventor-cum-manufacturer super-hero, Henry Little, endures Trades-Union outrages and treachery from his rival in love for the beautiful Grace Carden. The novels builds to a terrific climax with a disastrous dam-burst, based on the very real Sheffield flood of 1864.
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It Is Never Too Late to Mend. A Matter-of-Fact Romance (1856)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1895

Seller ID: VN1889

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"Library Edition". Original fine-ribbed green cloth, with repated dandelion design in white. Corners bumped, a little foxing, bookplate on front pastedown, good. Reade's breakthrough success: a sprawling melodrama encompassing evil machinations in Berkshire, wild adventures in the goldfields of Australia and the disturbing cruelty and horror of life in B-- Gaol.
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Hard Cash. A Matter-of-Fact Romance (1863)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Son & Marston: 1864

Seller ID: 96080

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

Three volumes uniformly bound in mid C19th brown leather over red marbled boards; raised bands and gilt lettering on spines. Spines gummed to text blocks with chipping at heads and longitudinal cracking. A few gatherings slightly proud, otherwise contents in good order. A working/rebinding set. A vigorously sensational novel, dealing with unjust imprisonment in a "lunatic asylum" -- from the point-of-view of the prisoner. A heavy three-volume set which will require additional postage
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Love Me Little, Love Me Long (1859)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1893

Seller ID: 97081

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition, Piccadilly Novels. Frontispiece and vignette title. Original scarlet cloth, elaborately decorated and lettered in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine; green-and-white flower-patterned endpapers. Leading edges of boards a little dulled, spine lightly sunned, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, good. Publisher's catalogue for April 1893 bound in at the end. The prequel to one of Reade's best known novels, Hard Cash.
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In the Shires. A Sporting Novel (1887)

By: Roberts, Sir Randal H. [Sir Randal Howland Roberts]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1887

Seller ID: 04359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1887]. Original green cloth, illustrated with horseman and fox's head in black, lettered in gilt on spine, flower-patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, inscription (1888) on front free endpaper, good. Sport, romance and criminality. Not in Wolff, who had several of Roberts's novels. The first edition was not dated on the title page, whereas later editions were (ie third edition, dated 1888).
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Footprints in the Snow (1877)

By: Russell, Dora

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, R. E. King: 1900

Seller ID: SP010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Undated reprint (c1900). Illustrated. Original scarlet cloth, lettered and illustrated in black (policeman looking at suspects on the front cover; hand holding a revolver on the spine). A few specks and spots on boards, front free endpaper removed, signature in pencil, otherwise good.
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Footprints in the Snow (1877)

By: Russell, Dora

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, R. E. King: 1900

Seller ID: 97086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1900. Original horizontally ribbed maroon cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt. Paper lightly tanned, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), signature (1914) on front free endpaper, good. Crime/mystery novel. Dora Russell was seen by her contemporaries as the natural successor to M. E. Braddon.
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On Golden Hinges (1885)

By: Russell, Dora

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London., Griffith Farran & Co.: 1890

Seller ID: VN3464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

"Griffith Farran's Standard Library" edition. Undated, c1890. Original crimson cloth, decoratively framed in black and lettered in gilt; brown endpapers. Title on binding rendered as "The Golden Hinges", but correct title on title page. Spine sunned with loss of cloth on spine ends (see photograph). Front inner joint paper lightly cracked, rear has ancient repair. Text block in good shape, but binding is fair only. A reading/working/binding copy.
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Partners of the Night (1916)

By: Scott, Leroy

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1917

Seller ID: VN2461

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First UK edition of this American collection of crime fiction. Original mauve cloth with framing and lettering in blue. Spine sunned, paper tanned throughout, good. Uncommon outside the USA.
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Aurelius Smith Detective (1927)

By: Scott, R. T. M. [Reginald Thomas Maitland Scott]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1928

Seller ID: VN2872

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, lettered in black. Some light marks, specks and spots on boards, spine lightly sunned, a several signatures on prelims, good. Crime stories, first published in the USA in 1927.
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The Shadow of the Czar; Lady Barbarity; By Snare of Love; For Love or Crown

By: Several Authors: John R. Carling, J. C. Snaith, Arthur W. Marchmont

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Various: 1904

Seller ID: 89119

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

CARLING, John R.: The Shadow of the Czar. A Polish Romance (1902). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Bound with: SNAITH, J[ohn] C[ollis]: Lady Barbarity. A Romantic Comedy (1899). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Bound with: MARCHMONT, Arthur W[illiams]: By Snare of Love (1904). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Bound with: MARCHMONT, Arthur, W[illiams]: For Love or Crown (1901). Paperback: Hutchinson & Co., nd. Four Edwardian paperbacks bound as one (without original wrappers) in black binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Stamp for Lynn Briggs Temperance Hotel, Louth, on front free endpap...
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The Lady Lisle (1862) & Florence Templar (1856)

By: Several Authors: M. E. Braddon [Mary Elizabeth Braddon] & Mrs Vidal [ie Mary Theresa Vidal]

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Ward & Lock/Smith, Elder & Co: 1862

Seller ID: 98227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Lady Lisle. First Edition, [Second Impression?], [Shilling Volume Library, No 4]: Ward and Lock, 1862. Bound with: Florence Templar (1856). New Edition: Smith, Elder & Co., 1862. Two volumes bound as one in mid C19th tan leather over brown cloth covered boards, raised bands, gilt ruling and dark brown title label on spine, green endpapers. A little scuffing to spine, boards lightly sunned, very good. The Lady Lisle. Sadleir [303 & 3711], who notes that the Shilling Volume Library series is " most elusive and most obscure of all the Fiction Series of the period" Not in Wolff, who only held...
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The Dead Lock; A Story in Eleven Chapters. Also Tales of Adventure &c (1863)

By: Smith, Charles Manby

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Virtue Brothers: 1863

Seller ID: 04342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece. Original blindstamped maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; cream endpapers. Cloth a little darkened on boards, with a few light marks; faint signature (1871) on front free endpaper; some foxing, good. The title novel (177 pp) is a sub-Dickensian story of low and high life, owing something of its plot (a lost child working with criminals) to Oliver Twist. The volume also contains 4 linked stories (In Prison Under Robespierre, Burgomaster Law in Prussia, In the South Seas & Down the Danube) relating a life of adventure; a poem - The Ballad of the Magic Viol; and 7 other miscell...
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