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French Men, Women and Books (1910)

By: Betham-Edwards, M [Matilda Betham Edwards]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1910

Seller ID: VN0995

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, Author of "Evelina", "Cecelia" etc. Edited by Her Niece (1842)

By: Burney, Fanny [later Madame D'Arblay]

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1854

Seller ID: 93151

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Exemplary and Instructive Biography for the Study of Youth

By: Chambers, William & Robert (editors)

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William & Robert Chambers: 1836

Seller ID: 00462

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Wilkie Collins (1951)

By: Collins, Wilkie] Kenneth Robinson

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Davis-Poynter: 1974

Seller ID: VN1022

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Marie Corelli, the Writer and the Woman by Thomas F. G. Coates & R. S. Warren Bell (1903)

By: Corelli, Marie] Thomas F. G. Coates & R. S. Warren Bell

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co: 1903

Seller ID: 03817

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Trooper 3809. A Private For Saleier of the Third Republic

By: Decle, Lionel

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1899

Seller ID: VN0256

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Pictures of Travel in the South of France (Nouvelles impressions de voyages: Midi de la France, 1841)

By: Dumas, Alexandre

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Offices of the National Illustrated Library: 1851

Seller ID: VN0973

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Cavaliers of Fortune: or, British Heroes in Foreign Wars (1859)

By: Grant, James

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1865

Seller ID: 03339

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Frank Harris His Life and Adventures An Autobiography

By: Harris, Frank

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, The Richards Press: 1947

Seller ID: VN0039

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Our Hundred Days in Europe (1887)

By: Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: VN0369

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Vacation Rambles (1896)

By: Hughes, Thomas

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 01634

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt (1850)

By: Hunt, Leigh

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1860

Seller ID: 94081

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Jean Ingelow Victorian Poetess

By: Ingelow, Jean] Maureen Peters

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Ipswich, The Boydell Press: 1972

Seller ID: 00057

Binding: Hardcover

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)
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Lytton Strachey A Critical Study

By: Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1939

Seller ID: 01429

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Memoir of Annie Kearie by Her Sister (1882)

By: Keary, Annie] Eliza Keary

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1883

Seller ID: 91126

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Image for The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Authoress of Our Village etc, Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Edited by The Rev A. G. Lestrange (1870)

The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Authoress of Our Village etc, Related in a Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Edited by The Rev A. G. Lestrange (1870)

By: Mitford, Mary Russell, A. G. Lestrange

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1870

Seller ID: 90073

Binding: Hardcover

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
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Francis of Assisi (1870)

By: Oliphant, Mrs Margaret

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1871

Seller ID: 04427

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant and of Alice Oliphant His Wife (1891)

By: Oliphant, Mrs Margaret

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1891

Seller ID: 92138

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Gleams of Memory With Some Reflections (1894)

By: Payn, James

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 93093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; blue endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good. Autobiographical anecdotes and musings: a sequel of sorts to Payn's earlier title Some Literary Recollections.
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I Like to Remember (1925)

By: Ridge, W. Pett [William Pett Ridge]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1925

Seller ID: 01005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition (1925). Illustrated. Original blue cloth. Minimal wear: slight cracking to paper on rear inner joint (joint tight): very good. The reminiscences of a novelist and humourist.
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