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By: Allain, Marcel [Translated and edited by A. R. Allinson]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Stanley Paul & Co.: 1926
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN1975
Condition: Good
Original deep maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, front inner joint paper cracked (but joint tight), foxing spots, undated signature, good. The Fantomas Detective Novels were hugely popular crime stories, published in France in the early C20th. Fantomas is a vicious master-criminal (a thief, but also a killer), pursued by his nemesis, Inspector Juve, through some 32 novels by the Souvestre and Allain. And then in a further 11 by Allain alone (of which this title is one), after his collaborator's death). English editions are uncommon. View more info
By: Allen, Grant
Price: £40.00
Publisher: New York, New Amsterdam Book Company: 1900
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 82004
Condition: Good
First American Edition. Frontispiece portrait of author. Original fine-ribbed scarlet cloth, lettered in black and illustrated in gilt on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Small (and ancient) repair to cloth at foot of spine, undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwise a very clean, bright copy, good. A superior American edition of one of Allen's scarce late novels. View more info
By: Alsop, Alfred ["A. Delver"]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Manchester, John Heywood: 1885
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92156
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black end gilt; yellow endpapers. Rubbed on hinges, signature (1887) on front free endpaper, good. Alsop was Superintendent of The Home for Neglected Boys in Manchester's Deansgate, and wrote and edited a number of works telling the stories of the poor, of reformed criminals etc. The second story here -- Experience of a Convict -- is largely set in Gibraltar. The last story -- Life Below the Surface; or, Child Life in the Slums is by Eleanor Grundy. View more info
By: Andom, R [ie Alfred Walter Barrett]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Tylston & Edwards: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 84052
Condition: Good
Original yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in brown. Spine a little darkened, small nick in cloth at head of spine, endpapers lightly tanned, inscription (1906) on front pastedown, good. The title piece is a fantasy of exchanged souls. The other stories are: The Gratitude of an Outcast, Industry and Sloth, Myrtle Farm, A Commonplace Tragedy, Mr Jordan's Reparation, Johnson's Little Spec, The Plot That Failed & In a Moment of Madness. View more info
By: Andom, R. [ie Alfred Walter Barrett]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, George Newnes: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2032
Condition: Very Good
Original pinky-orange cloth with figures in silhouette, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed/grazed, a little foxing, very good. A war-time entry in the series of Troddles' stories: perhaps consequently, one of the scarcer titles in the series. View more info
By: Andom, R. [ie Alfred Walter Barrett]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Jarrold & Sons: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2486
Condition: Good
Original yellow cloth, lettered and illustrated in red and black. Lightly soiled, light foxing, undated signature on front pastedown, good+. One of Andom's numerous comic novels featuring the eponymous Troddles. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Published for the Proprietor: 1850
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01913
Condition: Fair
Undated, c1850. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Original blindstamped crimson cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Spine relaid, corners rubbed, now good. I can find no record of this title, or its author(s), anywhere. A collection of 9 short stories, with varying settings (Deptford, Blackheath, Cornwall, France), giving few clues to the identity of the writer(s): Mad Collins, Sally Grey, Isidore, Practical Jokes, Master and Man, The Wrecker's Daughter, The Rejected Lover, The Fair Day, A Workhouse Man's Tale. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0981
Condition: Very Good
Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, a little browning on endpapers, otherwise very good. The life struggles of an ordinary man: "I have been fighting against circumstances now for full fifteen years". The novel treats the various phases of the anonymous hero's working life: periods of unemployment and mixed employment, starting with clerkship in a bank, then a substantial period working in the police at Scotland Yard ("The Force") and finally training to be a barrister. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN1477
Condition: Good
Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt.Rubbed at head of spine, edges of front free endpaper chipped, otherwise good. The life struggles of an ordinary man: "I have been fighting against circumstances now for full fifteen years". The novel treats the various phases of the anonymous hero's working life: periods of unemployment and mixed employment, starting with clerkship in a bank, then a substantial period working in the police at Scotland Yard ("The Force") and finally training to be a barrister. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Edmonton & Douglas: 1865
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04425
Condition: Good
Illustrated. Original lilac cloth, with blindstamped framing on front board, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Spine sunned, corners rubbed, short split to cloth at foot of lower hinge, undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwise good. A romance, set largely in the Western Highlands, and issued by a Scottish publisher. The unknown author produced at least two further novels: Love and Duty (1866) and Arthur Clifford (1869). View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Seeleys: 1848
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 93049
Condition: Very Good
Mid-C19th brown leather over purple beaded cloth; raised bands, gilt decorations and red leather title label on spine; red marbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Lightly scuffed, light foxing throughout, undated signature on blank prelim, very good. View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, Stanley Rivers & Co.: 1870
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2590
Condition: Good
Undated first edition [1870]. Original purple-black cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; blue-black endpapers. 2 mm loss to cloth head and foot of spine, inner joint papers lightly cracked, foxing (quite heavy on early pages), otherwise good. View more info
By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02219
Condition: Very Good
The Novel Series. Original fine-ribbed grey-blue cloth. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown otherwise very good. View more info
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By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1892
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02319
Condition: Very Good
Original red-brown cloth spine, with brown boards, illustrated and lettered in black; chocolate brown endpapers. Minor scuffing, inscription (1938) on recto on frontispiece, bookplate on front pastedown, very good. View more info
By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1925
Edition: First Edition, late Issue
Seller ID: 03591
Condition: Very Good
Original grey cloth. Lightly scuffed, a little light foxing, very good. Wolff [160], with "undated" publisher's catalogue:. Wolff apparently overlooked the code dating at foot on last leaf. Originally issued in blue cloth, with the code date "625" (June 1925) and later issued in as a remainder/reissue in grey cloth, dated "1029" (October 1929). Anstey's final and uncommon collection of 17 humorous short stories and essays. This copy is the late remainder issue with the later code dating. View more info
By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN1869
Condition: Good
The Novel Series. Original fine-ribbed grey-blue cloth. A little scuffed, good. View more info
By: Anstey, F. [ie Thomas Anstey Guthrie]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1915
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 85013
Condition: Near Fine
First Edition. Undated [1915]. Original red cloth, blindstamped on front board, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt on spine. A few tiny marks, publisher's circular "Presentation Copy" stamp on title page, otherwise near fine. One of Anstey's least common titles. Publisher's catalogue, dated 25/9/14 on final page, bound in at end. View more info
By: Appleton, G. Webb [George Webb Appleton]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Samuel Tinsley: 1880
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 83046
Condition: Fair
Three volumes bound as one in publisher's lilac remainder cloth. Boards marked, spine sunned and darkened, later endpapers, undated signature on prelims, fair/good. Listed in Hubin as a marginal crime novel. Not in Wolff. Collates: I - [iv] = 270 pp + advertisement leaf; II - [iv] + 262 pp; III - [iv] + 244 pp. No half-titles. Heavy: may require additional postage outside the UK. View more info
By: Applin, Arthur
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1911
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04073
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Small splits to cloth on hinge ends, yellow circulating library label on front pastedown, undated signature on front free endpaper, some browning on opening page of text from loose newspaper clipping, good. Theatrical novel, whose heroine is named after the hat-wearing heroine of Sardou's play. Applin was an actor and playwright and a number of his novels have theatrical themes (The Chorus Girl, The Pantomime Girl etc.); he also wrote a number of crime novels. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1899
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 85096
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, endpapers browned with W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plate on front pastedown, otherwise very good. A collection of eleven short stories, mostly historical and romantic (several are concerned with the Franco-Prussian War), and including one science fiction story -- Rollway's Marvellous Invention -- about a flying machine. View more info
