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Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: VN1912
Yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1900]. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to edges, spine darkened, endpapers, tanned, good. Todd [II, p.368] lists second edition of 1897 and notes "also 1900". A detective novel in which the criminal is apparently the eponymous Irish terrorist. Setting: Canvey Island in Essex. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1913
Seller ID: VN1230
Reprint. Original blue cloth with impressed design (radiating rays) on front board, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, a little foxing, lacks rear free endpaper, good reading copy View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 80068
Frontispiece. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Small chip at foot of spine, and corner at head of spine, light foxing, good. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1896
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: VN1618
Frontispiece. Original dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black (gilt lettering on spine); black endpapers. Front board damp-marked along right side with some roughness along edge; some evidence of old damp damage to edges of front endpaper; similar but much less marked on lower corner of rear board. Frontispiece orn on edges. Text clean and in good order. Fair only: a reading copy. "English readers...will doubtless recognise a few of the following c... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04240
Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned with small chips to cloth head and foot; endpapers tipped in, lacks half-title; undated signature on front pastedown: thus fair only. A reading copy of a scarce Le Queux title: "I hereby tender an apology to the reader for being compelled, in these curious chronicles of an adventurous motorist and his actions towards certain of his female acquaintances, to omit real names, and to substitute assumed ones. Wit... View more info
By: Leblanc, Maurice & Edgar Jepson
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Mills & Boon: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87047
Thrilling Adventure Library. Oval portrait of George Du Maurier (who played the character on stage) inset on front board. Original blue-black cloth, lettered in red on front board, in gilt on spine. Occasional foxing spots, otherwise near fine. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1906
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86006A
Original light brown cloth, framed and decorated in black, lettered in gilt. Extremities scuffed, a little dulled, good. Crime novel by one of the authors of Convict 99. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1919
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 90131
First Edition "For Sale Abroad". Frontispiece. Original light blue glazed cloth, framed and lettered in black. Oval impressed stamp ("For Sale Abroad") at bottom on rear board. Spine sunned (slightly streaked) with short closed split at head, scuffed, undated signatures on prelims, otherwise good. Very scarce crime novel, featuring a female detective. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1907
Seller ID: VN2582
Unstated, but second edition, in Cassell's standard second edition binding of fine-ribbed navy blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Illustrated. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, otherwise very good. A crime/mystery novel View more info
By: Leroux, Gaston
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01498
Undated first [1923]. Original red cloth, blocked in black. Corners rubbed, foxing spots throughout, good. View more info
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By: Leroux, Gaston
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1914
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 88096
Original deep purple cloth, framed and lettered in red. Spine sunned, and spine portion of rear board speckled/discoloured, good. The adventures of Leroux's amateur detective, Joseph Rouletabille, in Russia. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86058
"Heinemann's Shorter Novels Series". Original patterned green cloth, with gilt decorative panel on front board and on spine. Minimal scuffing, light foxing, very good. A married woman and her lover elope: on their train journey death unexpectedly intervenes. View more info
By: Lytton, Lord [Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton]
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1895
Seller ID: VN1097
[Florin Novels]. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; publisher's own monogrammed endpapers. Lightly scuffed, foxing, inscriptions and bookplates on prelims, good. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2612
First Edition. Original blindstamped royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Boards a little darkened, a some marks on board edges, trace of removed label on front board, spine ends scuffed, front inner joint lightly cracked, foxing on early pages, good. Crime novel View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1897
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2558
Original fine-ribbed blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Front endpapers replaced (50 years ago or more, with two repairs to prelims, a little foxing and tanning, a few light marks on boards, good. The hero is a successful man who has committed a crime -- and his past eventually catches up with him. Magnay's first novel and a scarce title. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Lewis's [ie R. E. King]: 1900
Seller ID: 86028
Undated reprint, c1900. Early C20th brown cloth over yellow marbled boards; green leather title label on spine. Label rubbed on right edge, inner joint papers cracked with some gum residue, paper faintly tanned throughout, good. View more info
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1890
Seller ID: 87025
New Edition. Undated, c1890. Original deep red cloth with raised design of chrysanthemums on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, extremities scuffed, small stamp on endpapers, inner joint papers lightly cracked, good. Marryat's first novel, written while she was nursing her sick children. View more info
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1890
Seller ID: 87029
New Edition. Undated, c1890. Original deep red cloth with raised design of chrysanthemums on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, prize plate (1907) on front free endpaper; otherwise crisp, bright, very good. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1890
Seller ID: VN2549
Hutchinson reprint edition, from around 1890. Lacks all prelims before contents leaf. Original maroon cloth, with raised pattern of chrysanthemums. Corners and spine ends rubbed and worn. With all faults - strictly a reading copy only of an uncommon book. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, R. E. King: 1900
Seller ID: VN2696
Undated reprint, c1900. Original maroon cloth on bevelled boards, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt; brown endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, with 3mm loss on cloth head and foot; contents clean and tight, good. View more info
