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The Lively Peggy (1928)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1928

Seller ID: 04402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine lettering a bit dulled, spine ends scuffed, bookplate on front pastedown, good. Weyman's last (and posthumous) novel.
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From the Memoirs of a Minister of France (1895)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: LH005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blue-black cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's own grey patterned endpapers; top edge gilt. Corners scuffed, a few light spots and marks on boards, signature (1899, in pencil) on half-title, light foxing, otherwise very good. A collection of twelve stories set in France at the turn of the C16th/C17th centuries. Publisher's catalogue dated 7.95 bound in at end.
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Xingu and Other Stories (1916)

By: Wharton, Edith

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: VN0985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine tips scuffed, spine lettering dulled, a few marks on front board, small signature (1943) on front free endpaper, light crack to paper on front inner joint, a little foxing, some staining on rear endpapers, good. A collection of 8 short stories, 2 of which (Kerfol and The Triumph of the Night) were included in the 1937 collection of Wharton's supernatural fiction, Ghosts.
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Sons of Freedom or The Fugitives from Siberia (1897)

By: Whishaw, Fred

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson & Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 89024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Illustrated. Original grey-green cloth, decorated in red and lettered in gilt; patterned light green endpapers. Undated prize inscription on front pastedown, otherwise near fine. One of Whishaw's Russian titles, aimed at older boys. Frequently reprinted: the first edition is scarce.
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The Whirligig of Time (1906)

By: Whitby, Beatrice

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1906

Seller ID: 04404

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original steel-blue cloth, lettered and framed in black on front board, in gilt on spine; publisher's own monogrammed endpapers. Corners a little scuffed, a little foxing, otherwise good. Whitby began with two (moderately) feminist novels: The Awakening of Mary Fenwick (1889) and Part of the Property (1890), both dealing with women's perception that they are being treated as property and possessions by men. Her later fiction is more conservative in tone. The Whirligig of Time is the story of a "New Woman" who becomes the second wife and stepmother in a Devonshire farming family.
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The Mountains of Necessity (1901)

By: White, Hester

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1901

Seller ID: 04328

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Early C20th rebinding in tan leather over green cloth; raised bands, gilt decorations and brown leather title label on spine. Cloth marked on boards, light foxing, good. An Anglo-Indian novel.
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The Adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights at Mess, and Other Tales (1836)

By: White, James

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Edinburgh/London, William Blackwood/T. Cadell: 1836

Seller ID: 90115

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Eight plates by George Cruikshank. Mid C19th green beaded binder's cloth with printed paper label on spine. Label chipped on corners, foxing, good. The "other stories" are The Traveller in Spite of Himself, The Hour of Fortune & Crocodile Island. There are eight plates, not seven as indicated in the list following the contents leaf.
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The Adventures of Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights at Mess, and Other Tales (1836)

By: White, James

Price: £40.00

Publisher: Edinburgh/London, William Blackwood/T. Cadell: 1836

Seller ID: 90116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Eight plates by George Cruikshank. Mid C19th fine-ribbed brown cloth eith blindstamped decorations, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Spine realid a century ago. Rubbing on corners, light foxing and occasional spots in text, good. The "other stories" are The Traveller in Spite of Himself, The Hour of Fortune & Crocodile Island. There are eight plates, not seven as indicated in the list following the contents leaf.
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Park Lane (1903)

By: White, Percy

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Archibald Constable: 1903

Seller ID: 00711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth, blocked in lilac (gilt on spine). Two small scratches on front board, some foxing spots, owner's inscription (1903) on front free endpaper, good.
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The Patient Man (1905)

By: White, Percy

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 02091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed red cloth. Corners rubbed, light soiling on cloth, good. Publisher's catalogue dated April 1912 bound in at end
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A Downland Corner (1912)

By: Whitechurch, Victor L. [Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1912

Seller ID: 94024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blindstamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing, foxing spots on early pages and fore-edges, otherwise very good. Whitechurch is best remembered for his crime fiction. However, A Downland Corner is a collection of fifteen stories of country life, and was followed (at wide intervals) with two further collections: Downland Echoes (1924) and Mute Witnesses: Being Certain Annals of a Downland Village (1933).
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The League of Saint Louis (1913)

By: Whitelaw, David

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1913

Seller ID: 02657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Undated [1913]. Original dark red cloth; rosette in white on front board; lettered in blue (front board) and gilt (spine). A little light foxing, otherwise near fine. A wild adventure set in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Whitelaw wrote adventure and crime novels from the mid 1890s until the 1950s, but also found time to invent the (very successful) spelling card game, Lexicon.
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The Brookes of Bridlemere (1864)

By: Whyte-Melville G. J. [George John Whyte-Melville]

Price: £120.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1864

Seller ID: 96102

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Three volumes recently rebound in black leather over marbled boards; raised bands, gilt lettering and decorations, and red/brown labels on spines. A little foxing, signatures (1868) on blank prelims, very good in fine bindings. Not in Wolff. Collates: I -- [vi] + 294 pp; II -- [vi] + 308 pp; III -- [vi] + 294 pp. No half-titles. A heavy set which will require additional postage.
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The Infant A Novel (1895)

By: Wicks, Frederick

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Remington & Co.: 1895

Seller ID: VN0974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated. Original deep crimson cloth on bevelled boards, lettered and framed in gilt; black endpapers. Light scuffing to spine ends, a little foxing, very good. Like the author's earlier novel, The Veiled Hand, this is a "microcosmic view of the social life of to-day. It is founded neither upon an affair of blood, nor upon a breach of the seventh commandment, nor upon an ingeniously contrived puzzle, nor upon supernatural conditions, involving fanciful conversation with the Dead, but upon the commonplace social conditions of the period."
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Set in Silver (1909)

By: Williamson, C. N. & A. M. [Charles Norris & Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1909

Seller ID: VN0237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original grey-blue cloth, with oval picture on glazed paper inset on front board, map of journey by car through England on endpapers. Coloured frontispiece. Picture rubbed on front board, spine a little dulled, fair
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Lord Loveland Discovers America (1910)

By: Williamson, C. N. & A. M. [Charles Norris & Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 02658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, with small coronet below title on front board and spine. Corners bumped, lightly browned on endpapers, inner joint papers lightly cracking (but joints tight), small green (French) bookseller's label on front pastedown, good. Publisher's catalogue dated March 1910 bound in at end.
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It Happened in Egypt (1914)

By: Williamson, C. N. & A. M. [Charles Norris & Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: VN0977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Tinted frontispiece. Original tan cloth, with illustrations of ruined temple and lettering in blue on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Dull mark on leading edge of rear board, a little rubbing on hinges and corners, foxing spots, good.
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Lord John in New York (1918)

By: Williamson, C. N. & A. M. [Charles Norris & Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1918

Seller ID: VN2602

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pinky-red cloth, lettered and decorated in black. Spine lightly sunned, paper tanned on edges throughout, good. A scarce Williamson title, printed on poor quality paper at the end of the First World War.
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The Minx Goes to the Front (1919)

By: Williamson, C. N. & A. M. [Charles Norris & Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Mills & Boon: 1919

Seller ID: 92012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Spine lightly sunned, a few marks on boards, long inscription (1921) on front free endpaper, good. The Williamsons made their name writing novels of travel and adventure featuring motor-cars. The Minx Goes to the Front -- the first of four short novels in this collection -- is a strange addition to the sequence; a half light-hearted, half serious trip around the front lines of the First World War by car, led by Miss Mix ("the Minx"). The other stories also have wartime settings: and the additional short story A Moving Picture in Belgium also involves the war, as well as cars and silent...
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Last Year's Wife (1932)

By: Williamson, Mrs C. N. [ie Alice Muriel Williamson]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn: 1932

Seller ID: VN0301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Ninepenny Novels, Leaders of Modern Fiction. Original grey card, decorated in blue. A little rubbed head/foot of spine, otherwise very good. Alice Williamson found her greatest fame writing motoring romances (for example The Lightening Conductor, 1902) with her husband Charles during the Edwardian era. After his death she continued to write (using her late husband's initials, rather than her own), until she committed suicide in 1933.
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