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By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1903
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2511
Condition: Good
Frontispiece. Original blue cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt. Spine and board edges sunned, cloth chipped on spine ends, bookplate on front pastedown, fair to good binding: contents lightly foxed but otherwise tight. A crime novel featuring love at first sight, and innocent girl held captive, a mysterious disappearance, and attempted political assassination. View more info
By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92103
Condition: Good
Undated first edition [1900]. Illustrated. Original navy blue cloth on bevelled lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Spine ends rubbed, with small nicks/splits, endpapers browned and chipped on inner joints, good-. View more info
By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 94055
Condition: Good
Original navy-blue cloth on bevelled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt and pale green. Corners rubbed, a few light marks, endpapers replaced, good. Collection of eleven short stories. View more info
By: Borrow, George
Price: £60.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1851
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 93043
Condition: Good
Three volumes in original fine-ribbed blue-green cloth with blindstamped framing; paper title labels on spines; yellow endpapers. Corners bumped, spines and board edges faintly sunned, paper labels rubbed, foxing on early pages: a good set in its original state. A heavy three volume set which will require additional postage View more info
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By: Bourget, Paul
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, David Nutt: 1904
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: VN2792
Condition: Good
The Phoenix Library Vol III. Original crimson cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Small closed tear to top edge of lower hinge, some speckling and marking on board edges, good. View more info
By: Bowen, Marjorie [ie Margaret Campbell]
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03748
Condition: Near Fine
Original smooth, dark green cloth. Lettered in gilt within circle of gilt leaves on front board. A couple of light bumps to edges, otherwise clean, bright, near fine. One of Bowen's stirring and strongly-plotted historical romances. God and the King concerns the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 and the overthrow of James II. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1899
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: VN2493
Condition: Good
Original pale green cloth, lettered and decorated (with twigs and blossom) in dark green and white on front board, and spine. Spine darkened and scuffed on ends, otherwise good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads (rather oddly): "Mamie's dedication to Beresford". The novel was reviewed in The Spectator: "[Magda Stacpoole's] engage- ment to, and ultimate rescue from, a deliriously decadent lover is described with an intoxicating exuberance of polysyllabic preciosity." View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: New York, Sheldon & Co.: 1875
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 90005
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and gilt, yellow endpapers. Rubbed and nicked at head of spine, one corner creased, otherwise good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Algernon R. Boyesen from his affectionate father Hjalmar H. Boyesen...May 1892. Boyesen was born in Norway and emigrated to the U. S. A. at the age of 21. He became the first Norwegian author to write a novel (Gunnar, 1874) in his adopted country, and followed it with A Norseman's Pilgrimage in 1875. View more info
By: Bradby, G. F. [Godfrey Fox Bradby]
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03159
Condition: Good
Original grey-green cloth, lettered in black. Trace of removed bookplate on top edge of front board, undated signature on front free endpaper, a little foxing, good. The novel concerns the lives of 5 children "who live with their grandparents while their parents are away in India" (Edwardian Fiction) View more info
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By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1894
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0691
Condition: Good
Undated first edition [1894]. Originally published in three volumes. This copy is volumes 2 (II) and 3 (III) ONLY. Volume 1 (I) is not present. Two volumes in original green cloth, lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. Corners bumped, spines dulled, bookplate on front free endpapers. Volume 2 has boards detached from text block. 2 volumes out of 3 only. Heavy: may require additional postage outside UK. View more info
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By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, John Maxwell: 1873
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0693
Condition: Poor
Originally published in three volumes. This copy is volume 1 (I) ONLY. Volumes 2 (II) & 3 (III) are not present. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. Cloth wrinkled, endpapers wrinkled, worn on spine with small holes, poor only. Volume 1 of 3 only. View more info
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By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1892
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0694
Condition: Poor
Originally published in three volumes. This copy is volume 3 (III) ONLY. Volumes 1 (I) & 2 (II) are not present. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. Cloth dampstained and wrinkled, rear inner joint repaired, circulating library bookplate on front pastedown, poor. Volume 1 of 3 only. View more info
By: Braddon, M. E. {Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 94063
Condition: Very Good
Undated first edition [1900]. Original fine-ribbed black cloth, with blindstamped panel of leaves in centre of front board; lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Light scuffing to corners, a little light foxing, very good. Sadleir [295]. An historical novel of the Methodist Revival. View more info
By: Bradley, Shelland [ie Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, G. Bell: 1913
Seller ID: VN2412
Condition: Very Good
Original green cloth, lettered in gilt, with illustration on oval glazed paper inset in centre of front board. Corners bumped, a little foxing, date (1917) in pencil on front free endpaper, otherwise good to very good. The author's first work of fiction, first published in India in 1902 and then in London in1907. In this copy the title page is an undated cancel, and mentions the author's second book (An American Girl in India, 1907). It is probably a late issue of the 1907 edition with a new title page: COPAC gives a date of 1913. A collection of ironic tales and sketches, set in the Indian to... View more info
By: Brandane, John [ie John McIntyre]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons: 1910
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 03997
Condition: Very Good
Frontispiece map of Isle of Mull. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A few light marks on cloth, perforated stamp ("Presentation Copy") on title page, a little foxing, very good. "A Stevensonian romance of Mull and the Western Isles and Highlands, when Jacobite plots were still hatching and hunting of suspects by Hanoverian soldiers was going on" (Historical Fiction). Scarce. View more info
Price: £120.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1874
Edition: First Edition in Two Volumes
Seller ID: 93019
Condition: Very Good
Two volumes in original emerald green cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, in blind on rear boards, and in gilt on spines; cream endpapers. Corners and spine tips scuffed, bookplates of John Davies Enys on each front pastedown, faint trace of inscription on front free endpaper of volume I, otherwise a very good set. Wolff [794]. Two volume set will require additional postage outsied the UK. View more info
Price: £200.00
Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1893
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 92073
Condition: Very Good
Three volumes in original fine-ribbed blue-grey cloth, with elaborate blindstamped designs on front boards, lettered in gilt on spine; royal blue endpapers. Lightly scuffed, small chips on endpapers, signatures (1899) on versos of front free endpapers, otherwise very good. [NB, there is smokey odour in the book]. Wolff [799]. Is Aubrey Truscott -- travelling showman, protégé of a quack doctor -- really the last of the Dynmokes and Squire Jasper's missing heir -- or an imposter? Probably inspired by the Tichborne Case. A heavy 3-volume set which will require additional postage outside the UK. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, T. Allman: 1844
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 92047
Condition: Good
Frontispiece and vignette title precede printed title page. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, with blindstamped framing, gilt vignettes and lettering; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. Cloth lightly sunned, small chip on corner at head of spine, front free endpaper removed, inscription (1867) on recto of frontispiece, a little foxing, good. View more info
By: Brett, Sylvia [aka Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91063
Condition: Very Good
Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, a little foxing, very good. A collection of brief stories: whimsy, fantasy and children being the principle themes. The book is dedicated to J. M. Barrie. Brett later became the wife of the Rajah [Charles Vyner Brooke] of Sarawak. View more info
By: Brierley, Ben
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, W. E. Clegg: 1896
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 93094
Condition: Very Good
Edited by James Dronsfield. Illustrated by F. W. Jackson. Three volumes in original fine-ribbed green cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, light scuffing, two spots/marks on spine of Volume III: a very good set. Wolff [815]. A posthumous collection of Brierley's Ab-o'th'Yate and other dialect Lancashire stories. A heavy three-volume set which will require additional postage. View more info
