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In a Quiet Village (1900)

By: Baring-Gould, S. [Sabine Baring-Gould]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Isbister & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: VN0962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original two-tone cloth: boards light green, spine cream, lettered in gilt; black endpapers; top edge gilt. Spine dulled, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), light foxing, undated signature on half-title, good. Not in Wolff. 20 character sketches and short stories, originally published in journals such as Good Words. A scarce title.
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Noémi A Story of Rock-Dwellers (1895)

By: Baring-Gould, S. [Sabine Baring-Gould]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: 90088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. A few light marks on cloth, otherwise clean and tight: very good. Publisher's catalogue dated September 1895 bound in at end. A historical novel: set in Aquitaine during the fifteenth century.
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Through All the Changing Scenes of Life (1892)

By: Baring-Gould, S. [Sabine Baring-Gould]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, S. P. C. K. [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]: 1892

Seller ID: 91061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition. [1892]. Illustrated. Original light blue cloth, lettered and illustrated in black, brown and gilt; patterned endpapers. Light grazing and a few tiny to boards, prize inscription (1895) on verso of front endpaper, small bookseller's stamp on half-title, otherwise very good.
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Chris of All-Sorts (1903)

By: Baring-Gould, S. [Sabine Baring-Gould]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 95110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine faintly sunned, some scuffs and bumps, small closed tear at head of spine, undated signature on front free endpaper, good. Publisher's catalogue for October 1908 bound in at end. Wolff's copy [255] is even later with catalogue from 1909.
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From the East unto the West (1896)

By: Barlow, Jane

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 04033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 Field of the Frightful Beasts, The Long Furrow, Moggy Goggin, Cocky, As Luck Would Have It, Her Bit of Money, Some Jokes of T...
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Trader Carson (1914)

By: Barnett, John

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 91021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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The Luck of the Lanes (1907)

By: Barnett, John

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 96003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, framed, lettered and illustrated in white and blue. Board a little darkened on edges, gift inscription stamps on front pastedown, some soiling on endpapers, good. A romantic comedy.
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The Prince's Valet (1907)

By: Barnett, John, [ie John Reginald Stagg]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 89065

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Lone House (1894)

By: Barr, Amelia E[dith]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1894

Seller ID: 01775

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Lord Stranleigh, Philanthropist (1911)

By: Barr, Robert

Price: £24.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: VN2832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original black cloth with repeated impressed squares in gilt: illustration on glazed paper inset in centre of front board, lettered in gilt. A little rubbing oto top corners, frontispiece nicked on edges, a little light foxing, very good in bright tight binding.
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The Justification of Andrew Lebrun (1894)

By: Barrett, Frank [ie Frank Davis]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1894

Seller ID: 88007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Image for A Set of Rogues Namely Christopher Sutton, John Dawson, The Señor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaña and Moll Dawson. Their Wicked Conspiracy, and a True Account of their Travels and Adventures. The Marriage of Moll Dawson by Sinful Means to a Worthy Gentleman of Merit; Her Fall, Remorse and Great Sorrow; Her Second Expedition with Her Former Roguish Companions into Strange Places. Her Atonement to Mr. Richard Godwin (Whereby She Renders Up All She Ever Had of Him and More) and Selling of Herself to Algerine Pirates and Going into Barbary a Slave; Together with the Tribulations of Those who Led Her into Wrong Doing, and Many Other Surprising Things Now Disclosed for the First Time as the Faithful Confession of Christopher Sutton (1895)

A Set of Rogues Namely Christopher Sutton, John Dawson, The Señor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaña and Moll Dawson. Their Wicked Conspiracy, and a True Account of their Travels and Adventures. The Marriage of Moll Dawson by Sinful Means to a Worthy Gentleman of Merit; Her Fall, Remorse and Great Sorrow; Her Second Expedition with Her Former Roguish Companions into Strange Places. Her Atonement to Mr. Richard Godwin (Whereby She Renders Up All She Ever Had of Him and More) and Selling of Herself to Algerine Pirates and Going into Barbary a Slave; Together with the Tribulations of Those who Led Her into Wrong Doing, and Many Other Surprising Things Now Disclosed for the First Time as the Faithful Confession of Christopher Sutton (1895)

By: Barrett, Frank [ie Frank Davis]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, A. D. Innes: 1895

Seller ID: 89143

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Breaking the Shackles (1900)

By: Barrett, Frank [ie Frank Davis]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, John MacQueen: 1900

Seller ID: 04380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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).
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Tommie and Grizel (1900)

By: Barrie, J. M. [James Matthew Barrie]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co: 1900

Seller ID: VN2236

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Last English (1914)

By: Bartram, George [ie Henry Atton]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick & Jackson: 1914

Seller ID: 04336

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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)
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The People of Clopton (1897)

By: Bartram, George [ie Henry Atton]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1897

Seller ID: 92126

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Title page printed in red and black. Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Corners lightly rubbed, a few faint marks, very good. Bartram's first novel. Reviewers thought the treatment of matters sexual in the novel quite daring.
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The "Wine-Drinker" and Other Stories (1911)

By: Batchelder, W. J.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 91062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Zachary Brough's Venture (1894)

By: Bayly, Elizabeth Boyd

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Jarrold: 1894

Seller ID: 01183

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Breachley, Black Sheep (1902)

By: Becke, Louis

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1902

Seller ID: 02095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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Edward Barry (South Sea Pearler) (1900)

By: Becke, Louis

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1900

Seller ID: 03593

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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