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By: Betham-Edwards, M [Matilda Betham Edwards]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0995
Condition: Very Good
8 portraits of French authors. Original royal blue cloth, framed and lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, spine a little dulled, a few foxing spots, very good. Essays by the francophile English novelist, largely on less well-known French writers. Heavy: may require additional postage outside UK. View more info
By: Burney, Fanny [later Madame D'Arblay]
Price: £65.00
Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1854
Seller ID: 93151
Condition: Good
New Edition in Seven Volumes: Henry Colburn , 1854. Frontispiece in each volume. Seven volumes in original blue moiré cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; yellow endpapers. Corners a little rubbed; spines a little darkened; signatures, donation inscriptions (1922 to Women's Institute) and W.I. stamps on front endpapers; light foxing; a good set. The novelist's diaries from 1778 to 1840. A heavy set which will require additional delivery costs. I can offer delivery by courier to most destinations worldwide. View more info
By: Chambers, William & Robert (editors)
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, William & Robert Chambers: 1836
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00462
Condition: Very Good
Mid C19th green cloth on light boards; hand-cut leather title label on spine. Corners scuffed, some faint marking on edges on rear board, very good View more info
By: Collins, Wilkie] Kenneth Robinson
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Davis-Poynter: 1974
Seller ID: VN1022
Condition: Very Good
[Second edition]. Original grey cloth; very good. Original illustrated white dustwrapper. Edges lightly scuffed and a touch of darkening to spine: good. One of the books on Collins which appeared in the 1950s and spearheaded a revival in the interest of the father of the sensation novel. View more info
By: Corelli, Marie] Thomas F. G. Coates & R. S. Warren Bell
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co: 1903
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03817
Condition: Good
Illustrated. Original crimson cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned, light foxing, good. A friendly appreciation of the novelist. View more info
By: Decle, Lionel
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1899
Seller ID: VN0256
Condition: Fair
[Second Edition]. Original red cloth with illustration on front board. Lightly scuffed, very good. Reminiscences of a life in the French army, intended to show that the Dreyfus affair was a result of an unjust and tough military system. Non-fiction. View more info
By: Dumas, Alexandre
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Offices of the National Illustrated Library: 1851
Edition: First English Edition
Seller ID: VN0973
Condition: Good
National Illustrated Library. Undated [1851]. With 50 engravings on wood. Full leather, blocked in gilt (on front board) with cameo design with ornate framing and Greek motto, for the Glasgow Collegiate & Commercial Academy, with the same design blocked in blind on rear board; raised bands and leather title label on spine, marbled endpapers. Corners rubbed, a few very small scrapes to leather on board edges, small chip on bottom spine corner of front board, good. The first of 5 books by Dumas describing his travels in southern Europe in the years 1834 - 6. View more info
By: Grant, James
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1865
Seller ID: 03339
Condition: Very Good
Undated reprint (c1865), probably originally issued as a yellowback. Early C20th rebinding in maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; all edges marbled; brown endpapers. Address stamp on front endpapers, otherwise crisp, bright, very good. Sketches of military heroes and their lives and campaigns. Grant wrote a long series of historical and military novels (and a handful of supernatural stories as well), but this work is non-fiction. View more info
By: Harris, Frank
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, The Richards Press: 1947
Seller ID: VN0039
Condition: Good
Second printing of this one volume abridgement of the notorious autobiography, originally published privately in Paris (1922 -7). Original maroon cloth. Lightly sunned on spine, a few marks on boards, good View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1894
Seller ID: VN0369
Condition: Very Good
New & Cheaper Edition. Original maroon cloth. Sunned on spine, a little foxing, Reading Society prize note and signature on front free endpaper, very good. American novelist Holmes travelled to Europe and recorded his impressions. By "Europe" he means principally England, with a brief trip to Edinburgh, and another to Paris. View more info
By: Hughes, Thomas
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1896
Seller ID: 01634
Condition: Very Good
Second Edition. Original green cloth; dark blue endpapers. Light scuffing, private library plates on front endpapers, very good. Edited by the author's daughter. A work of non-fiction travelogue, by the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays. View more info
By: Hunt, Leigh
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1860
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 94081
Condition: Good
First Thus, New Edition Revised by the Author, with Further Revision and an Introduction by His Eldest Son. Frontispiece portrait of Hunt. Original dark blue cloth heavily embossed with wavy line designs, lettered in gilt on spine. Boards lightly grazed, small chip in top corner of rear board, foxing on frontispiece, good. Hunt was a man of letters (poet, essayist, translator), a friend of many literary figures in the first half of the nineteenth century, and immortalised (unkindly) by Dickens as Harold Skimpole in Bleak House. View more info
By: Ingelow, Jean] Maureen Peters
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Ipswich, The Boydell Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00057
Condition: Very Good
Original lilac cloth: very good. Original glazed white dustwrapper: light soiling, very good. Ingelow was a poetess, but also wrote stories for girls, and number of novels for adult readers: Off The Skelligs (1872), Fated to be Free (1875), Sarah de Berenger (1879) View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1939
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 01429
Condition: Good
Original green cloth. no dustwrapper. Spine lightly sunned, otherwise clean, tight copy, good. The author was Professor of English at Lingaraj College, University of Bombay View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1883
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 91126
Condition: Good
Frontispiece portrait of Annie. Original dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Small bubble to cloth on front board, faint tanning to pages, good. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul & Co.: 1879
Seller ID: 93111
Condition: Near Fine
First Thus, Abridged Edition in Two Volumes. Illustrated. Two volumes in deep olive green-brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spines; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Minimal wear, near fine. A heavy two-volume set which will require additional postage. View more info
By: Mitford, Mary Russell, A. G. Lestrange
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1870
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 90073
Condition: Good
Three volumes in original brown cloth on bevelled boards, framed in black and lettered in gilt on spines; pale yellow endpapers. Free corners rubbed, faint traces of bookplates on front boards, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), good. A heavy set which will require additional postage View more info
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Price: £5.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1883
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN1326
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black; black endpapers. Chipped on spine ends, bookplate on front pastedown, good. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1871
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04427
Condition: Very Good
First Edition, late issue, The Sunday Library for Household Reading. No date [1871]. Frontispiece. Title page printed in black, blue and red, with vignette illustration of saint. Errata slip tipped in before first page of text. Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, brown endpapers. Spine a little darkened, name stamp and bookplate on front endpapers, very good. A biography of the saint. A dated second edition appeared in 1871. This undated first, with errata slip, has publisher's announcements dated 1871 at the end. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1891
Edition: First Edition in Two Volumes
Seller ID: 92138
Condition: Very Good
Frontispieces of Laurence and Alice. Original light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; brown endpapers. A few light marks, minimal scuffing, otherwise very good. A heavy 2-volume set which will require additional postage. View more info
