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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 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 Lady Lisle (1862) & Florence Templar (1856)

By: Braddon, M. E. [Mary Elizabeth Braddon] & Mrs Vidal [ie Mary Theresa Vidal]

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Ward & Lock/Smith, Elder & Co: 1862

Seller ID: 98227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Lady Lisle. First Edition, [Second Impression?], [Shilling Volume Library, No 4]: Ward and Lock, 1862. Bound with: Florence Templar (1856). New Edition: Smith, Elder & Co., 1862. Two volumes bound as one in mid C19th tan leather over brown cloth covered boards, raised bands, gilt ruling and dark brown title label on spine, green endpapers. A little scuffing to spine, boards lightly sunned, very good. The Lady Lisle. Sadleir [303 & 3711], who notes that the Shilling Volume Library series is " most elusive and most obscure of all the Fiction Series of the period" Not in Wolff, who only held...
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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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"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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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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Told in the Dog Watches (1910)

By: Bullen, Frank, T. [Frank Thomas Bullen]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1910

Seller ID: 92110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth with title blindstamped on front board, in gilt on spine. Two illustrations. Lightly scuffed, faint wrinkle on front board, trace of removed bookplate on front free endpaper, a little faint foxing, otherwise good. Thirty-five tales of life and adventure at sea.
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Made in France. French Tales Re-told with a United States Twist (1893)

By: Bunner, H. C. [Henry Cuyler Bunner]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1893

Seller ID: VN2595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original pale beige cloth, lettered and illustrated in dark brown and green. Illustrated. A little light foxing, a few light marks, very good.
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Image for A Lady of Quality Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down... (1896)

A Lady of Quality Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down... (1896)

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: VN0966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece. Original green cloth with blindstamped scrolling and gilt lettering. Armorial bookplate on front pastedown, a little light foxing, very good. An historical romance of the 1690s.
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In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim (1899)

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co: 1899

Seller ID: VN1966

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1899]. Original light brown cloth, lettered and decorated in dark brown and gilt. Extremities scuffed, tiny nicks at foot of spine, endpapers browned, good.
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