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By: Beswick, Harry
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Clarion Press: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: VN2038
Condition: Very Good
Collection of short stories. Original navy blue cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, very good. Inscription on half title reads: To my dear old chum & "best man" Harvey Gee from the author Septr 1904 "May the Wing of friendship never moult a feather" Richard Swiveller. View more info
By: Betham-Edwards, M [Matilda Betham Edwards]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN0995
Condition: Very Good
8 portraits of French authors. Original royal blue cloth, framed and lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, spine a little dulled, a few foxing spots, very good. Essays by the francophile English novelist, largely on less well-known French writers. Heavy: may require additional postage outside UK. View more info
By: Betham-Edwards, M [Matilda Betham Edwards]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1886
Edition: First Edition in Two Volumes
Seller ID: 04112
Condition: Good
Two volumes bound as one in late C19th black leather over red marbled boards. Rubbed on spine ends, with short split to leather at head of upper hinge: contents clean and tight, fair/good. Not in Wolff. Bound without half-titles. A heavy double volume which may require additional postage View more info
By: Bindloss, Harold
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04251
Condition: Very Good
Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Foxing on endpapers and fore-edges, small bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a tight copy, very good. An adventure story set largely in West Africa. View more info
By: Bindloss, Harold
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92083
Condition: Near Fine
Coloured frontispiece. Original grey-blue cloth, decoratively framed in black, illustration on glazed paper in set in centre of front board. Light scuffing, faint foxing, near fine. Bindloss was born in Liverpool but spent parts of his life in Canada where much of his fiction -- including The Pioneer -- is set. A settlement in Alberta is named after him. This novel was reprinted several times, but the first edition is scarce. View more info
By: Black, William
Price: £90.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington: 1881
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 94080
Condition: Very Good
Three volumes uniformly rebound in brown leather over brown and orange marbled boards; black leather title labels on spines; green endpapers. Lightly scuffing, a few light marks, bound without half-titles; a very good set. Wolff [511] in cloth, noting that the uncommon large 8vo format gives the book a striking appearance. It is also unlike any other novel Black wrote -- being the story of a secret society which is dedicated to destroying tyranny across Europe, and the machinations of one of its leaders. A large and heavy set which will require additional postage. View more info
By: Bland, Hubert
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1907
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91034
Condition: Good
Undated first edition [1907]. Original grey-green cloth, lettered in white with stylised tree in green on front board. Lettering quite rubbed on spine, partial ink stamp on rear pastedown, otherwise good. Bland was the husband of novelist E. Nesbit. By all accounts he was an unpleasant man, who held quite contradictory views (he was a Fabian who opposed woman's suffrage), and treated his wife badly. This very scarce collection consists of seventeen philosophical short stories and essays. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, The Clarion Newspaper Co.: 1901
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01456
Condition: Good
Original pale green cloth, with dramatic cover illustration by Chesworth of a frightened man sitting up in bed. Spine lettering dulled, otherwise a good copy. A collection of tall stories, as might be told after dark in the barracks. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, The Clarion Press: 1922
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01462
Condition: Very Good
Undated [1922]. Original tan cloth. Light scuffing, a little foxing on endpapers, very good. Stories, essays and journalism View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1884
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88026
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated. Original deep turquoise cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; brown endpapers. Light scuffing, a few faint marks on rear board, otherwise a tight, bright copy: very good. Not in Wolff, who held one other novel by this author. A comic novel of the life of a country gentleman and his famil; involving burglaries and seances, courtship and bazaars, grand dinners and small children. Scarce. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, John Lane, The Bodley Head: 1911
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 88027
Condition: Good
Original green cloth, framed and illustrated in black, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, light foxing, very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: With kind regards from the Author. Eighteenth century historical romance: the hero, Dick Maynard, is unjustly accused of being a highwayman. View more info
By: Blessington, Countess [Marguerite of]
Price: £60.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman: 1836
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87147
Condition: Good
Six plates ("My First Love", "My Second Love" etc). Original pinky-red cloth, with blindstamped framing and gilt ornament on front board, elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Spine sunned with short splits to cloth at head of hinges, light foxing, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise a clean tight copy, good. View more info
By: Blinkhoolie [ie William Allison]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1884
Seller ID: 02960
Condition: Very Good
First Edition: George Routledge & Sons. Frontispiece (see note below). Late C19th brown leather over brown cloth, raised bands on spine. Light scuffing, some browning on endpapers, very good. Note: once a yellowback -- the pictorial paper from the original front board has been mounted to make the frontispiece for this rebound volume. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London., William Blackwood & Sons: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2103
Condition: Very Good
Frontispiece. Original blue cloth, with illustrations of medieval castle and lettering in black and white, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, a little foxing, very good. Scarce. A medieval romance of knight and courtly ladies, set in and around Carcassonne in South-west France. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1898
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00314
Condition: Fair
Original fine-ribbed red cloth. Spine sunned/darkened, evidence of removed bookplate at head of front board, speckled on rear board, a little foxing in text, undated signature on half-title. Otherwise a tight copy fair/good. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88028
Condition: Very Good
Original sage-green cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly marked on boards, light scuffing, faint foxing, very good. One of Bloundelle-Burton's "Novels of To-day": a story of secret marriages, bigamy and blackmail. View more info
By: Boldrewood, Rolf [ie Thomas Alexander Browne]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 82016
Condition: Very Good
Publisher's presentation copy with circular impressed stamp on title page. Original fine-ribbed blue cloth with impressed design of trees and gilt lettering on front board. Spine a trifle dulled, light foxing and faint tanning to page edges, signatures (1898 & 1948) on front pastedown, very good. Wolff [585]. Publisher's catalogue dated 50.1.98 (sic) bound in at end. View more info
By: Boldrewood, Rolf [ie Thomas Browne]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 90102
Condition: Very Good
Original blue cloth with blindstamped decoration of surf-topped wave, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Lightly scuffed on spine ends, undated signature on front free endpaper, light foxing, very good. Wolff [587]. A collection of five stories. View more info
By: Boldrewood, Rolf [ie Thomas Browne]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 90134
Condition: Very Good
Original blue cloth with blindstamped decoration of tropical trees, lettered in gilt; top edge gilt. Spine a trifle darkened, undated signature on front free endpaper, light foxing, otherwise a clean, bright copy: very good. Wolff [579]. View more info
By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £10.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1897
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN1365
Condition: Good
Original navy-blue cloth on bevelled boards: inset illustration on glazed paper on front board, lettered in gilt. 4 illustrations by Stanley L. Wood. Corners rubbed, inscription in pencil (1897) on front free endpaper, stamp on front pastedown, edges of free endpapers nicked, some foxing, good. View more info
