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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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The Convalescent (1859)

By: Willis, N. Parker [Nathaniel Parker Willis]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Son & Co: 1859

Seller ID: VN1573

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A series of letters, chronicling the thoughts and experiences, excursions and adventures of a convalescent invalid over a period of about two years and covering many diverse subjects (Catching a Snapping Turtle...Winter diseases...Dog Insanity...Pic-Nic in Dell Monell...). Mid-C19th green leather over marbled boards; rebacked with new green cloth spine and black title label, new endpapers; original leather corner pieces heavly worn, but book otherwise sold and contents clean and tight: good
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The Rise and Progress of Sir Timothy Buncombe, Kt. and M.P. An Extra-Moral Biography (1886)

By: Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Manchester/London, John Dale/Hamilton, Adams & Co.: 1886

Seller ID: 80110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth, black endpapers. Light scuffing, corners bumped, leading edge of boards a little rubbed, good. Issued anonymously as "by the author of Thomas Wanless, Peasant". A humorous and satirical portrait of the rise of a ruthless, self-made man.
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For a Woman's Honour. A Mystery of Mount Street (1911)

By: Wilson, Christopher

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul: 1911

Seller ID: 87006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Original scarlet cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. A few faint marks, a few foxing spots, very good. Medical crime novel, listed in Hubin. Murder is committed using "the serum of death" which activates dangerous bacteria in the victim's body.
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Studies and Romances (1873)

By: Wilson, H. Schtz [Henry Schtz Wilson]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Henry S. King: 1873

Seller ID: 90091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original brown cloth on bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and black; black endpapers. Corners lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. Two "studies" -- on Shakespeare and Goethe -- followed by thirteen short stories. Not to be confused with Wilson's later book Studies in History, Legend and Literature (1884).
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Strange Partners (1905)

By: Wintle, Gilbert

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 87068

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece. Original blindstamped black cloth with border in green, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, a little foxing, very good. Crime novel.
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Nights with an Old Lag (1911)

By: Wintle, W. J. [William James Wintle]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, John Ouseley: 1911

Seller ID: 85064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Frontispiece. Original black cloth, framed and lettered in red on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners bumped, light foxing, signature (1915) on front pastedown, very good. Confessions of "one of the most daring and expert burglars and safe-breakers in Great Britain". Wintle claims the material is "true", but the book is listed in Hubin's Crime Fiction.
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Mildred Arkell (1865)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Elen Wood]

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Tinsley Brothers: 1865

Seller ID: 85020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Three volumes bound as one in late C19th black leather over red marbled boards; raised bands and red leather title label on spine; green endpapers. Boards grazed, inscription (1870) on blank prelim, very good. Sadleir [3351]. This copy bound up without half-titles.
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Oswald Cray (1864)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black: 1864

Seller ID: 89096

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Three volumes uniformly rebound in purplish-blue beaded cloth, lettered in gilt on spines. Trace of removed bookplates on front boards, cloth generally but unevenly sunned, a little foxing, note in pen below title on each title page ("MCH Nurses Library No III") but otherwise all three volumes very tight: a good set. Sadleir [3354], (in original cloth). The current copy has the half-titles, but not the blank leaves following the end of the text in each volume.
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Sons of the Sword A Romance of the Peninsula War (1901)

By: Woods, Margaret L. [Margaret Louise Woods]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1901

Seller ID: 04127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original crimson cloth, illustrated in black and lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, later endpapers, light foxing, good.
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His Next of Kin (1887)

By: Worboise, Emma Jane

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, James Clarke: 1887

Seller ID: 92123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original grey cloth, lettered and illustrated in gilt brown, black, orange, green and gilt; grey-and-white flower-patterned endpapers. Corners rubbed, tiny nicks and rubs to spine ends, spine dulled, fair/ good.
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A Pretty Radical and Other Stories (1890)

By: Wotton, Mabel E. [Mabel Elizabeth Wotton]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, David Stott: 1890

Seller ID: 90129

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original fine-ribbed light blue cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black; blue-green endpapers. Corners rubbed, light crease to front board, front free endpaper (and possibly half-title) removed, fair/good. Uncommon collection of short stories.
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Remarkable Adventures and Unrevealed Mysteries (1863)

By: Wraxall, [Sir Frederick Charles] Lascelles

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1863

Seller ID: 87104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece by Phiz in each volume. Two volumes rebound in late C19th beaded green binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spines. Free corners rubbed, cloth starting to crack on upper hinge of volume I, hinges rubbed on volume II, inner joint papers cracked, foxing spots, faint undated signature on each title page, fair to good. Wolff [7329] in original cloth. Non-fiction. A series of historical narratives including the stories of the Jew Suss and the Man in the Iron Mask, and numerous less well-known adventures and mysteries. a heavy two-volume set which may require additional postage
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The Recluse of Rill (1911)

By: Wright-Henderson, R. W. [Robert William Wright-Henderson]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1911

Seller ID: VN2225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original maroon cloth, decoratively framed in white and lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing, spine faintly sunned, bumped on bottom edge of front board, John Bull award plate tipped into the front endpapers,, inscriptions (1916) on front endpapers, light foxing, good+.
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The Holiday Husband (1919)

By: Wyllarde, Dolf [ie Dorothy Lowndes]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1919

Seller ID: 03987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1919]. Original pale blue cloth, lettered in black. Poor quality post-war paper lightly browned, undated signature on front free endpaper, good. The heroine, Vervain Chalmont, is an independent-minded Suffragette and Socialist, and goes on holiday with a man she meets on the Tube, posing as his wife (he is her holiday husband). But is she quite free of the Victorian morality which would brand her a fallen woman?
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Uriah the Hittite (1904)

By: Wyllarde, Dolf [ie Dorothy Lowndes]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1904

Seller ID: 04314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece map of "Key island" in the Mozambique Channel. Original brown cloth with art-nouveau design in white on front board, lettered in gilt, all edges stained red. Lightly marked on spine edge of rear board, some light staining on edges of endpapers, paper browned on edges, good. Men and women, in an exotic and far-flung part of the British Empire, love and sin when freed from the restraints of conventional society.....
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The Dove in the Eagle's Nest (1866)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1866

Seller ID: 03357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Two volumes uniformly rebound in late C20th maroon leather over maroon marbled boards, pastel blue endpapers. A little light foxing, otherwise crisp, tight, near fine.
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Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise (1883)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1883

Seller ID: 03740

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

2 volumes in original smooth dark green cloth. A few faint marks, tiny chip at head of spine on volume II, otherwise clean, bright, very good. Collates: I - xx + 258pp + single leaf advertising Miss Yonge's Novels and Tales; II - viii + 270pp + advertisement leaf. Heavy: may require additional postage outside UK.
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