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A Stretch Off the Land (1903)

By: Bowles, G. Stewart [George Stewart Bowles]

Price: £28.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: 97016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine a trifle darkened, a few light marks on cloth, a little foxing, very good. Twelve nautical stories, the author being "lately a sub-lieutenant in His Majesty's Fleet". The title refers to a prolonged period at sea. Publisher's catalogue for February 1903 bound in at end.
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The Amazing Lady (1899)

By: Bowles, M. [Mamie Bowles]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1899

Seller ID: VN2493

Binding: Hardcover

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."
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When Every Tree Was Green (1912)

By: Bradby, G. F. [Godfrey Fox Bradby]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1912

Seller ID: 03159

Binding: Hardcover

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)
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[Odd Volumes] Thou Art the Man (1894) Volumes 2 (II) & 3 (III)

By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: VN0691

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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[Odd Volume] Strangers and Pilgrims (1873) Volume 1 (I)

By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, John Maxwell: 1873

Seller ID: VN0693

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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[Odd Volume] The Venetians (1892) Volume 3 (III)

By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: VN0694

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana (1999)

By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Hastings, Sensation Press: 1999

Seller ID: 96012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edited, with an Introduction, by Jennifer Carnell. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine: fine. Original illustrated dustwrapper: minimal scuffing, a few faint marks, very good. Originally serialised in The Halfpenny Journal between 1861 and 1862, and then published in a slightly abridged book edition - but only in America.
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The Infidel. A Story of the Great Revival (1900)

By: Braddon, M. E. {Mary Elizabeth Braddon]

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 94063

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Doings of Berengaria (1907)

By: Bradley, Shelland [ie Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, G. Bell: 1913

Seller ID: VN2412

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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My Lady of Aros (1910)

By: Brandane, John [ie John McIntyre]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons: 1910

Seller ID: 03997

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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The Last of the Dynmokes (1893)

By: Bray, [Sir] Claude

Price: £200.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1893

Seller ID: 92073

Binding: Hardcover

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, protg 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.
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"Ab-o'th'Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories (1896)

By: Brierley, Ben

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, W. E. Clegg: 1896

Seller ID: 93094

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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"Ab-o'th'Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories (1896)

By: Brierley, Ben

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, W. E. Clegg: 1896

Seller ID: 93055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edited by James Dronsfield. Illustrated by F. W. Jackson. Three volumes in original fine-ribbed green cloth. Endpapers lightly browned, lightly rubbed on spine ends, otherwise a very good set. Wolff [815]. A posthumous collection of Brierley's Ab-o'th'Yate and other dialect Lancashire stories.
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Sue or, Wounded in Sport

By: Briton, E. Vincent

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Seeley & Co.: 1886

Seller ID: 00632

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Vignette title page. Original green cloth blocked in black, recent brown endpapers. Corners and spine tips lightly rubbed, a few light marks on rear board, light foxing, good. A romance set in Cornwall, by the author of Amyot Brough.
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An Enemy to Society (1911)

By: Bronson-Howard, George

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1911

Seller ID: VN2045

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1911]. Four illustrations (tinted yellow). Original blindstamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Scuffed, otherwise very good.
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The Wounded Name (1922)

By: Broster, D. K. [Dorothy Kathleen Broster]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1922

Seller ID: 94094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original purple cloth, lettered and framed in green on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine sunned, a few light marks, good. Signed by the author ("D. K. Broster") on front free endpaper.
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Mayfield (1911)

By: Brown, Vincent

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1911

Seller ID: 02098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original royal blue cloth, ruled in black, lettered in gilt. Nicked at head of spine, a few speckles on cloth, good. Melodrama of passion and divorce "by the author A Magdalen's Husband". Brown specialised in novels of sexual scandal.
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Mayfield (1911)

By: Brown, Vincent

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1911

Seller ID: VN2848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original blue cloth, ruled in black and lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, specks and spots on boards, front free endpaper removed, a fair/good reading copy.
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Honour Without Renown (1900)

By: Browne, Mrs [Jessie Elizabeth] Innes

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Burns & Oates: 1900

Seller ID: VN2996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pink cloth, with art-nouveau decorations in red, lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, a little foxing, stamp for Mt St Joseph's Convent on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Catholic fiction: a sequel to the author's earlier Three Daughters of the Untied Kingdom (1897). Burns & Oates specialised in publishing Catholic material (fiction and non-fiction)
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Kittie Lonsdale and Some Rumsby Folk (1898)

By: Bryant, Emily M.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Charles H. Kelly: 1898

Seller ID: 80037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blindstamped maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. A few light marks, endpapers browned, Sunday School inscription on front free endpaper, very good. A collection of short stories set in the Lincolnshire village of Rumsby, making use of Lincolnshire dialect.
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