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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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A Wise and a Foolish Virgin (1904)

By: Warden, Gertrude [ie Gertrude Price]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: 92100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt with blindstamped art-nouveau design on front board. Corners lightly scuffed, a little foxing, a few marks on edges of endpapers, otherwise very good. Love, marriage, divorce -- and suicide. Gertrude Warden (born Gertrude Price) was the younger sister of Florence Warden (born Florence Price).
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Louise Reignier: The Communion of Crime and Criminal. A True Story (1895)

By: Watson, Robert

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Ainslie & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 03707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1895]. Illustrated. Original pink cloth, lettered and illustrated in dark blue (gilt on spine); patterned endpapers. Some light marks on cloth, foxing spots, very good. Watson states in his introduction that "it is a novel founded upon absolute and reliable facts", and that he had regular access to Wormwood Shrubbs to gather material.
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Old Ebbie: Detective Up to Date (1923)

By: Webster, F. A. M. [Frederick Annesley Michael Webster]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1930

Seller ID: VN2598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Original light green cloth, lettered in black. Faint stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. the first collection of stories featuring detective Ebbie Entwhistle. [The first edition was published by Chapman & Hall in 1923]
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Paul Quentin (1915)

By: White, Fred M. [ie Frederick Merrick White]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: 02505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Colour frontispiece. Original dark red cloth, blocked in blind with small gilt decorations and black lettering. Cloth a little darkened, corners scuffed, good. Crime novel: listed in Hubin. White wrote more than 80 crime novels and short story collections between the 1890s to the 1920s.
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Last Year's Wife (1932)

By: Williamson, Mrs C. N. [ie Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn: 1932

Seller ID: VN0301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Ninepenny Novels, Leaders of Modern Fiction. Original grey card, decorated in blue. A little rubbed head/foot of spine, otherwise very good. Alice Williamson found her greatest fame writing motoring romances (for example The Lightening Conductor, 1902) with her husband Charles during the Edwardian era. After his death she continued to write (using her late husband's initials, rather than her own), until she committed suicide in 1933.
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For a Woman's Honour. A Mystery of Mount Street (1911)

By: Wilson, Christopher

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1911

Seller ID: 87006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Original scarlet cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. A few faint marks, a few foxing spots, very good. Medical crime novel, listed in Hubin. Murder is committed using "the serum of death" which activates dangerous bacteria in the victim's body.
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Strange Partners (1905)

By: Wintle, Gilbert

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 87068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece. Original blindstamped black cloth with border in green, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, a little foxing, very good. Crime novel.
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Nights with an Old Lag (1911)

By: Wintle, W. J. [William James Wintle]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, John Ouseley: 1911

Seller ID: 85064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Frontispiece. Original black cloth, framed and lettered in red on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners bumped, light foxing, signature (1915) on front pastedown, very good. Confessions of "one of the most daring and expert burglars and safe-breakers in Great Britain". Wintle claims the material is "true", but the book is listed in Hubin's Crime Fiction.
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Mildred Arkell (1865)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: VN0662

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundred and Fifty-Fifth Thousand. Smaller format blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Small note on top edge of front free endpaper, otherwise very good
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Ashley and Other Stories (1897)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1919

Seller ID: VN0666

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Ninety-Seventh Thousand. Smaller format in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, otherwise very good.
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The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: VN1510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundredth Thousand. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt.Lightly scuffed, faint foxing, light stamp on front free endpaper, very good.
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Johnny Ludlow Third Series (1885)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: VN1517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Thirtieth Thousand. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, bookplate on front pastedown, inscription (1935) on front free endpaper, light foxing, very good. Contains 19 linked short stories. The third of six collections of Johnny Ludlow Stories.
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The House of Halliwell (1890)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: VN1518

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundred and Twenty-Third Thousand. Original light blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, very good.
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The Channings (1862)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1883

Seller ID: VN1526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Twenty-Second edition. Bentley's Favourite Novels. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. Original black cloth, blindstamped on boards, decorated in gilt on spine, dark brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good.
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George Canterbury's Will (1870)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1899

Seller ID: VN1610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Eighty Third Thousand. Original green cloth, lettered in black and gilt. Spine ends scuffed, front inner joint paper lightly cracked, inscription on front free endpaper (1904), good.
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Within the Maze (1872)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1939

Seller ID: VN1637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

219th Thousand. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Light scuffing, light foxing on endpapers, very good.
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Oswald Cray (1864)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1896

Seller ID: VN1813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Fifty-second Thousand. Original green cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Boards lightly marked, good.
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Oswald Cray (1864)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: VN2118

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One Hundred and Twentieth Thousand. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise very good
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Dene Hollow (1871)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1893

Seller ID: VN2313

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Thirty-fifth Thousand. Original red cloth with gilt decoration and motto on front board, brown endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, inner joint papers lightly cracked, but joints tight, good.
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