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Holmby House A Tale of Old Northamptonshire (1860)

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

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, John Parker: 1860

Seller ID: VN0770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Tinted frontispiece in Volume I. Two volumes uniformly rebound (late C19th) in blue leather over red marbled boards; coloured leather title labels on spines; marbled endpapers. Contents clean and tight, but bindings well-worn: surface of leather scraped, leather hinges splitting on Volume II, and starting on volume I. A fair set suitable as a reading/binding copy. Heavy: may require additional postage outside UK.
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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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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. Schütz [Henry Schütz 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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Johnny Ludlow. Sixth Series (1899)

By: Wood, Mrs Henry [ie Ellen Wood]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co: 1899

Seller ID: VN3134

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original green cloth, lettered in black and gilt. Minimal scuffing, endpapers lightly tanned, a little foxing, very good. Contains five stories: The Mystery at Number Seven, Caramel Cottage, A Tragedy, In Later Years and The Silent Chimes. This last story, running to over 150 pages, is a novel in its own right. Sadleir [3345]: "A strange obscurity surrounds this book...it seems to have escaped notice that the volume, although listed by Macmillan as No 34 of the "New Edition" of Mrs Wood's works, was in fact a First Edition".
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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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