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The Missing Delora (1910)

By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1924

Seller ID: 04202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Twelfth Edition. Original deep turquoise boards, framed and lettered in black: corners scuffed, good. Original illustrated white dustwrapper, lettered in blue: worn on edges and corners, lightly soiled, fair/good. "A sensational and thrilling story", according to the blurb on the dustwrapper.
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Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat (1920)

By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1920

Seller ID: VN2836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1920]. Original red cloth with blindstamped decoration, lettered in black on spine. Corners a little rubbed, lightly marked on boards, page edges lightly tanned, one page has untrimmed edges, otherwise good. List of Oppenheim's contains only books published up to 1920
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General Besserley's Puzzle Box. Stories (1935)

By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935

Seller ID: VN2993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pale blue cloth, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed, undated signature on front pastedown, very good
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Ask Miss Mott. A Series of Stories (1936)

By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1936

Seller ID: VN3001

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pale blue cloth, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed, undated signature on half-title, some foxing, otherwise very good
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The Adventures of Mr Joseph Cray (1925)

By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1925

Seller ID: VN3162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated, c1925 Original blue cloth, lettered and illustrated in black. Light splash marking on front board, foxing, otherwise good. Crime.
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The Yellow Crayon (1903)

By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1913

Seller ID: VN3181

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Frontispiece. Original blindstamped red cloth, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed, foxing, otherwise very good.
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The Adventures of Antoine (1919)

By: Owen, H. Collinson [Harry Collinson Owen]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1919

Seller ID: 91022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1919]. Original pale blue cloth with blindstamped designs on boards and spine, lettered in gilt. Corners bumped, a little foxing, very good. Seven crime adventures featuring Antoine Poiret, general business manager of La Lumière, a Parisian newspaper. Listed in Hubin.
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The Problem Club (1919)

By: Pain, Barry

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, W. Collins & Co.: 1921

Seller ID: VN2636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Third Impression. This edition is not illustrated. Original red cloth. framed and lettered in black. A few light marks, good. Collection of 12 "puzzle" stories: mysteries without crime.
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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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That Wicked Miss Keane (1889 as Young Mr Ainslie's Courtship)

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

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 04172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth, with oval illustration on glazed paper inset within gilt frame on front board. Light grazing, light foxing, small undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. There is no indication why this novel was re-issued with a new title (indeed there is no indication that this is other than an entirely new novel)
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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: £25.00

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

Seller ID: 80113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Yellowback. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Usual rubbing to paper on extremities and spine ends, otherwise a tight solid copy: 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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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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The Sinews of War. A Romance of London and the Sea (1906)

By: Phillpotts, Eden & Arnold Bennett

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1906

Seller ID: 93086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1906]. Title page printed in green and black. Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners lightly scuffed, a few faint marks, impressed stamps n front free endpaper, bookplate of J. T. Kyffin on front pastedown, very good. A sensational thriller.
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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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The Adventures of Mortimer Dixon (1913)

By: Ramsey, Alicia

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1913

Seller ID: 91090

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and boards edges a little sunned, undated signatures on front free endpaper and half-title; endpapers a little browned, a few foxing spots, good. "Mortimer Dixon is a young journalist who is sent by his "chief" in a pursuit which takes him into startling adventures in the Chinese Quarter of the East End." (Publisher's blurb). Listed in Hubin's Crime Fiction II.
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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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