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By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1903
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2511
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: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1905
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2533
Illustrated. Original navy blue cloth on bevelled boards, blindstamped flower design in pale green on front board below title; lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, inner joint papers cracked (but both joints tight), signature (in green) along inner edge of front pastedown, some foxing. A well-used copy of an uncommon title: good. A collection of fourteen short stories published in the year of Boothby's death. View more info
By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92102
Undated first edition [1900]. Illustrated. Original navy blue cloth on bevelled lettered in gilt on front board and spine. Spine ends scuffed, lettering grazed on front board, newer endpapers laid in (many years ago), good. The adventures of a gentleman thief and the detective pursuing him. But all is not as it seems... View more info
By: Boothby, Guy
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92103
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
![Image for Divorce. A Domestic Tragedy of Modern France (1904). Translated from the French by E. L. Charwood. [Un Divorce, 1904]](/assets/images/product/VN2792.jpg "Divorce. A Domestic Tragedy of Modern France (1904). Translated from the French by E. L. Charwood. [Un Divorce, 1904]")
By: Bourget, Paul
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, David Nutt: 1904
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: VN2792
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: Bourne, Mrs
Price: £80.00
Publisher: London, Ward & Downey: 1890
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 88101
Three volumes in original brown cloth, framed and lettered in dark brown on boards, lettered in gilt on spines; grey-and-white patterned endpapers. [Volume II is in a slightly different shade of brown]. Corners and spine ends bumped and scuffed, W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plates on front free endpapers, later plain endpapers in volume III, inner joint papers cracking /chipped, but all joints tight, light foxing. A fair to good set. Not in Wolff. Collates: I - [vi... View more info
By: Bowen, Marjorie [ie Margaret Campbell]
Price: £14.00
Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1911
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03748
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
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 polysyllab... View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: New York, Sheldon & Co.: 1875
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 90005
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 Nors... 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
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
![Image for [Odd Volumes] Thou Art the Man (1894) Volumes 2 (II) & 3 (III)](/assets/images/product/VN0691.jpg "[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
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0691
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
![Image for [Odd Volume] Strangers and Pilgrims (1873) Volume 1 (I)](/assets/images/product/VN0693.jpg "[Odd Volume] Strangers and Pilgrims (1873) Volume 1 (I)")
By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Price: £8.00
Publisher: London, John Maxwell: 1873
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0693
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
![Image for [Odd Volume] The Venetians (1892) Volume 3 (III)](/assets/images/product/VN0694.jpg "[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
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN0694
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: £50.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88059
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. Front inner joint very neatly (all but invisibly) restored, light scuffing to corners, a little light foxing, good. Sadleir [295]. An historical novel of the Methodist Revival. View more info
By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Hastings, Sensation Press: 1999
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 91027
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. View more info
By: Bradley, Shelland [ie Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, G. Bell: 1913
Seller ID: VN2412
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 19... 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
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: £200.00
Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1893
Edition: First Edition in Three Volumes
Seller ID: 92073
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 ... View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, T. Allman: 1844
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 92047
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
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
