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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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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 Seor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaa 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 Seor Don Sanchez del Castillo de Castelaa 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 Little Minister (1891)

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

Price: £100.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 97011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Three volumes in modern binding: black leather over blue marbled boards; raised bands, gilt decorations and red leather title labels on spines. Some corners turned, some foxing and light soiling in margins, good in fine binding. Sadleir [167]. Bound up without publisher's catalogue. A heavy three-volume set which will require additional postage.
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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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Under Tropic Skies (1905)

By: Becke, Louis

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1905

Seller ID: 87141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

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.
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His Native Wife (1895)

By: Becke, Louis

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Sydney, Alexander Lindsay: 1895

Seller ID: 91005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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.
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By Reef and Palm (1894) & His Native Wife (1895)

By: Becke, Louis

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1894

Seller ID: 91019

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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 and small newspapers cutting on title page of By Reef, good. Becke's first book (a collection of stories) and third book (a s...
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The Tapu of Banderah (1901)

By: Becke, Louis & Walter Jeffery

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1901

Seller ID: 89144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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