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Hard Cash (1863)

By: Reade, Charles

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1898

Seller ID: 84054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition. Printed in double columns. Bound by publisher in red cloth, lettered in gilt, retaining full original illustrated pink paper wrappers. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Chatto issued a series of titles in their pink wrappered sixpenny paperback series, and then reissued them (as here, retaining the original wrappers) in boards.
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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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In the Shires. A Sporting Novel (1887)

By: Roberts, Sir Randall H. [Sir Randall 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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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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Jacobi's Wife (1887)

By: Sergeant, Adeline

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1912

Seller ID: 04130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

7d Copyright Novels. Undated, c1912. Pocket edition in original green cloth, decorated in gilt on spine. Frontispiece and decorated title page. A little light foxing, otherwise very good. Sergeant's first novel: a sensational tale of shipwreck and revenge.
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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 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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The Web of an Old Weaver (1896)

By: Snowden, J. Keighley [James Keighley Snowden]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 04396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt Spine lightly sunned and rubbed on tips, inscription (1896) on front pastedown, a little foxing, otherwise good. A Yorkshire tale, written partly in dialogue, involving a murder (although this is not one of the three crime novels by Snowden listed in Hubin).
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Miriam Lemaire, Money Lender (1906)

By: Stanton, Coralie & Heath Hosken [ie Alice & Ernest Hosken]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1906

Seller ID: VN2392

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; patterned endpapers. Although not stated, this is the second edition or impression, the first having been issued in green cloth with an illustration pasted to the front board; the blue cloth being a standard reprint style used by Cassell at this period.
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The Muzzled Ox A Romance of Riches (1911)

By: Stanton, Coralie &Heath Hosken [ie Alice & Heath Hosken]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1911

Seller ID: 96094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

First Edition, late issue. Undated [1911]. Original red cloth, lettered in black. Board edges quite speckled and a little darkened, otherwise good. Romantic crime novel: a conventional young Englishman, called Mornington Pelham, and his fiancée -- Mary Campbell-- become involved with Queen Carlotta of Morania and some stolen jewellery. Listed in Hubin. Publisher's catalogue for January 1913 bound in at end.
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The Mysteries of Paris from the French of Eugene Sue (1844) [Les Mystères de Paris, 1842 - 3]

By: Sue, Eugene

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, S. Richardson: 1867

Seller ID: 81086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

"With illustrations by Gavarni etc etc. ". Original blindstamped green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Corners rubbed, later endpapers, spine gilt dulled, inscription (1867) on half-title good. 595 pages with very small font (with over 65 lines per page). Sue's novel started a fashion for stories of criminal low-life, set in large cities.
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A Legal Practitioner Being Certain of My Own Experiences (1907)

By: Tearle, Christian [ie Edward Tyrrell Jaques]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1907

Seller ID: VN2417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, light foxing, good+. Stories of crimes and inheritances, wills and water rights. Listed in Hubin. Scarce.
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The Vintage of Vice (1912 as The Drunkard)

By: Thorne, Guy [ie Cyril Ranger Gull]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Greening & Co.: 1913

Seller ID: 84040

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated [1913][. Original blindstamped mauve cloth. Inscription (1914) on front free endpaper, very good. The story (as the original title suggests) of a drunkard, based (the author claimed) on the papers of a deceased but brilliant man-of-letters. Perhaps the name was changed to make it more attractive (or more sensational): the text has the original wording as its running title.
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The Summer Number of the Argosy (1887)

By: Various Authors: E. Oe Somerville

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1887

Seller ID: MC237

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Short stories include: The Death-Card (anonymous), Philip Fanshawe's Wife (anonymous), The Clock on the Stairs (anonymous), Lost and Found by Helen Prothero Lewis, A Night in the Suburbs by E. Oe Somerville, The Banshhe (anonymous), The Widow's Adonis (anonymous). Modern card wrapper. Foxing, good. Somerville's chilling story predates her partnership with Martin Ross.
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Blindfolded

By: Walcott, Earle Ashley

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1906

Seller ID: VN0166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial boards. Lightly scuffed, pencilled name on front free endpaper, very good
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The Joker (1926)

By: Wallace, Edgar

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1926

Seller ID: 01997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated [1926]. Original blue cloth, lettered and illustrated (car) in black. A couple of small spots on bottom edge of front board, light foxing, especially on prelims, inscription (August, 1926) on front pastedown, good++
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A Vagrant Wife (1885)

By: Warden, Florence [ie Florence Price]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, William Stevens: 1890

Seller ID: 93134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The Family Story-Teller. Undated (c1890). Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Lightly scuffed, spine ends nicked, signature (1918) on front free endpaper, otherwise good. There is nothing in the book to indicate publication date.
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