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Philip Van Artevelde. A Dramatic Romance in Two Parts

By: Taylor, Henry

Price: £18.00

Publisher: Cambridge & Boston, James Munroe: 1835

Seller ID: VN1009

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Two volumes uniformly bound in black leather, with gilt framing on boards, red leather titles and volume labels also gilt decoratiosn on spines. Title label missing on volume I. Leather worn at spine heads, partial crack to leather on lower hinge on volume II, general edgwear, first gathering proud on volume I, inscriptions (1835) on prelims. A fair set.
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A Book of Sibyls. Mrs Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Jane Austen. (1883)

By: Thackeray, Miss [ie Anne Thackeray Ritchie]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1883

Seller ID: VN1772

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original brown cloth on bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in black and gilt, black endpapers. Corners scuffed, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight); oval stamp on title page, foxing on prelims, good. Wolff [5881]. 4 short studies.
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Ballads

By: Thackeray, W. M. [William Makepeace Thackeray]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury & Evans: 1870

Seller ID: 01454

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated edition, c1870. Contemporary brown leather over dark lilac cloth-covered boards, marbled endpapers. Faintly sunned on top edges of boards, light rubbing on lower corner pieces, a little foxing on prelims, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, very good.
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Roundabout Papers Reprinted from The Cornhill (1863)

By: Thackeray, W. M. [William Makepeace Thackeray]

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1863

Seller ID: 84048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated by the author. Original blindstamped lavender cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; pale green endpapers. Minimal scuffing, spine very faintly sunned, a little light foxing, very good. Publisher's catalogue for November 1862 bound in at end.
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Pictures in a Mirror (1861)

By: Thomas, W[illiam] Moy

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons: 1883

Seller ID: 02408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original dark red cloth, decoratively blocked in black; cream endpapers. Cloth a little darkened and lightly marked, signature (1947) on front free endpaper, good. A collection of 13 stories (The Wandering Mason, The Golden Ram, A Night of Tortures etc) and essays (Milton's Golden Lane, Edgar Allen Poe, etc), a number of which had originally appeared in Dickens's journal Household Words.
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The Law's Lumber Room [First Series] (1895)

By: Watt, Francis

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London/Chicago, John Lane/McClurg: 1895

Seller ID: 03545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine sunned, a few light marks, bookplate on front pastedown, good. A collection of reflections on and anecdotes about aspects of English law (now obsolete), such as sanctuary, trail by ordeal, the press gang etc etc. Limited to 600 copies. The book was reprinted and a "second series" added a couple of years later.
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The Life of Paris (1900)

By: Whiteing, Richard

Price: £16.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1901

Seller ID: 02237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Late C19th binding in green cloth, leather title label on spine; patterned endpapers. Corners bumped, bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise very good. Todd [3481]. First/only issue. Half-title bound in. Non-fiction. A survey of contemporary Paris and Parisian life by the author The Yellow Van, The Island & Number 5 John Street.
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The Convalescent (1859)

By: Willis, N. Parker [Nathaniel Parker Willis]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Son & Co: 1859

Seller ID: VN1573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A series of letters, chronicling the thoughts and experiences, excursions and adventures of a convalescent invalid over a period of about two years and covering many diverse subjects (Catching a Snapping Turtle...Winter diseases...Dog Insanity...Pic-Nic in Dell Monell...). Mid-C19th green leather over marbled boards; rebacked with new green cloth spine and black title label, new endpapers; original leather corner pieces heavly worn, but book otherwise sold and contents clean and tight: good
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Our Social Bees or Pictures of Town and Country Life and Other Papers (1861)

By: Wynter, Andrew

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Robert Hardwicke: 1869

Seller ID: 98309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Tenth Edition. Late C19th rebinding in crimson leather over maroon marbled boards; raised bands and gilt rules on spine. Free corners a little rubbed, foxing on early/late pages, otherwise very good.
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Without Prejudice (1898)

By: Zangwill, I [Israel Zangwill]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1898

Seller ID: 03231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine bumped, a little light foxing, very good. Collects Zangwill's journalism, originally published as a column in the Pall Mall Magazine
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