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By: Barlow, Jane
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1905
Seller ID: 04033
New and Cheaper Edition, Methuen's Shillings Novel. Original red cloth, with blindstamped framing on boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Two small chips to cloth at head of spine, spine lightly sunned, good. Uncommon collection of stories which move in location from the Arabian Desert (east) to Ireland (west). The fifteen stories are: The Evil Abeyoonahs, The Puzzle of Jarbeck, The Mockers of the Shallow Waters, At Krinori, A Caprice of Queen Pippa, An Advance Sheet, The ... View more info
By: Barnett, John
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1914
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91021
Original navy blue cloth framed in light green with illustration on glazed paper on front board, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a little faint foxing, otherwise near fine. The lively exploits of an English trader -- "Blue-funk Carson" -- in West Africa. Carson has runs-in with Arab slave traders -- and with Mrs Poidevin, a visiting suffragette. Originally serialised in The Windsor Magazine. View more info
By: Barnett, John, [ie John Reginald Stagg]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1907
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89065
Original light blue cloth, lettered in black and gilt. Minimal scuffing to spine tips, faint mark on one corner of front board, a few foxing spots, otherwise a crisp bright copy, very good. The memoirs of Gustave, valet to Bonny Prince Charlie. The novel follows the Young Pretender's adventures across Europe after the failed uprising of 1745. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01775
Original turquoise cloth, blocked in black and gilt. Rubbed head/foot of spine, notes on front free endpaper, small split at foot of lower hinge, good. View more info
By: Barrett, Frank [ie Frank Davis]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1894
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88007
Original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Small chip to cloth at head of spine, marking on rear board, hinges rubbed, number "1517" hand written on spine, good. A scientific mystery thriller, involving suspended animation. View more info
By: Barrett, Frank [ie Frank Davis]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, A. D. Innes: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89143
Illustrated. Original blue buckram, lettered in gilt. Spine and board edges sunned, pages edges faintly tanned, a little foxing, otherwise a tight copy, good. Rollicking historical novel set in the aftermath of the Great Plague (1665), and sporting one of the longest titles of any Victorian novel. View more info
By: Barrett, Frank [ie Frank Davis]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, John MacQueen: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04380
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Cloth generally (but lightly) mottled and speckled, gilt lettering partially dulled/oxidised, trace of removed label on lower part of spine, a little pink staining on edge of first few leaves, light foxing, bookplate on front pastedown, good. Not in Wolff (who had 15 of Barrett's novels). View more info
By: Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew Barrie]
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2236
Original black cloth on bevelled boards, grey-and-white patterned endpapers, top edge gilt. Signature (1904) on half-title, otherwise clean, bright, tight copy: very good. View more info
By: Bartram, George [ie Henry Atton]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1914
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04336
Original dark grey-green cloth, framed and lettered in lighter green. Spine faintly sunned, cloth rubbed at foot of spine and small hole on upper hinge, good. Bartram's last novel, set in "Tiptry, Cantramshire". "A tale of village vice and virtue in 1840" (Popular Fiction in England 1914 -1918) View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1911
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91062
Frontispiece. Original red cloth, ruled and lettered in black. A few light marks, paper faintly tanned, very good. Nautical stories "based upon either 'longshore' fact or tradition." Batchelder also wrote several books about Baden Powell and the Scouting movement. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Jarrold: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01183
Original blue cloth, with blindstamped ruling top and bottom of front board, and lettering in gilt. Corners lightly scuffed, endpapers replaced, good+. A novel set in and around the (imaginary) West Country town of Forestwyk. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1902
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02095
Early C20th rebinding in red binder's cloth. Trace of label on front board, spine lightly sunned, foxing, good. Utilitarian binding: a good reading copy of a scarce title by this Australian novelist. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03593
Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Some light speckling on cloth, paper faintly browned on page edges, foxing and Sunday School plate on front endpapers, otherwise good. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87141
Title page printed in red and black. Spine a little darkened, boards sunned on edges, small nicks to cloth on spine ends, signature (1908) on front free endpaper, fair/good only. A collection of stories mostly with South Sea settings. View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1894
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 91019
By Reef and Palm (1894). First Edition, Pseudonym Library: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. With an Introduction by the Earl of Pembroke. Bound with: His Native Wife (1895) First English Edition, Century Library: T. Fisher Unwin, nd [1896]. Frontispiece and decorated title page. Two volumes bound as one in white parchment over red silk covered boards, gilt lettering and decorations on spine. Corners rubbed, boards a little marked, spine a trifle darkened, light foxing, initials a... View more info
By: Becke, Louis
Price: £95.00
Publisher: Sydney, Alexander Lindsay: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91005
First Edition, Australander Library. Rebound with red cloth spine over blue marbled boards, title hand-written on paper label on spine. Boards edges rubbed, Sydney bookseller's stamp on title page, good. Becke's first novel, published in his native Australia. Scarce. View more info
By: Becke, Louis & Walter Jeffery
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89144
Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, tiny nick at foot of spine, faint foxing, very good. Australian and South Pacific tales. View more info
By: Beerbohm, Max
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02035
Colour frontispiece by the author. Original red cloth spine (lettered in gilt) with grey boards. Speckling (ie light foxing) on boards, undated inscription on front free endpaper, good. Original undecorated grey wrapper, lettered in red. Lightly browned on edges, good. View more info
By: Bell, J. J. [John Joy Bell]
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 02950
Undated first edition [1918]. Original red cloth, title on white background on front board and spine. Spine lightly sunned, some spots on front board, war-time paper is grey with foxing and brown spotting, otherwise good. Bell is best-remembered for his long-running series of vernacular Scottish stories concerning Wee MacGregor. Atlantic Gold is a story of adventure and romance (and gold) set partly on a Hebridean island. Scarce. View more info
By: Bell, R. S. Warren [ie Robert Stanley Warren Bell]
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Greening & Co.: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01893
Original red cloth, illustrated and lettered in black. A few light marks on cloth, very good. Based on the author's own "three act farcical comedy" of the same name. View more info
