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Cinq-Mars: or A Conspiracy Under Louis XII A Historical Romance

By: Vigny, Count Alfred De. Translated from the ninth Paris Edition by William Hazlitt

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, David Bogue: 1847

Seller ID: 03318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Frontispiece of Vigny. Original blindstamped fine-ribbed green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Advertisement for The European Library tipped in to front endpapers. Corners scuffed, otherwise very good. Vigny's novel was first published in France in 1826.
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For Lust of Gold: A Romance; Being a Narrative of the Adventures of Frances Boulmer, Anthony Goddard, and Certain Others, in Their Search for the Golden City of Manoa (1892)

By: Watson, Aaron

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Walter Scott Publishing Co.: 1893

Seller ID: 80114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Brotherhood Library. Undated [1893]. Original horizontally ribbed green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; all edges gilt. Lightly scuffed on spine ends, a few light marks, very good. Tipped in after title page: a list of volumes in the Brotherhood Library (this title being no 114 out of 144). Undated publisher's catalogue at end carrying details of editions published in 1893. A wild boys' adventure story featuring Sir Walter Raleigh and his expedition to find the lost city of Manoa -- more usually known as El Dorado.
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A Gentleman of France Being the Memoirs of Gaston De Bonne Sieur de Marsac (1893)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1901

Seller ID: VN0326

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Impression. Frontispiece and illustrated title page. Original grey-blue cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; black endpapers. Corners lightly scuffed, a little light foxing, very good
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The Long Night

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1903

Seller ID: 00099

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Collection of British Authors, Volumes 3692/93. 2 volumes uniformly bound in orange cloth. Light general soiling; spines lightly sunned, good. Todd & Bowden [3692/93]. First/only issues. Half-titles bound in.
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A Gentleman of France

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1894

Seller ID: 00091

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Collection of British Authors Volumes 2962/63. Late C19th blue cloth. Stain on leading edge of Volume 1; signatures on front free endpapers, good. Todd & Bowden [2962a/63]. First issues. Half-titles bound in.
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Count Hannibal. A Romance of the Court of France

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1902

Seller ID: 00998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two volumes bound as one in purple binder's cloth. Scuffed on spine tips, light sunning, good.+. Todd [3547/48]. First/only issues: series half-titles bound in.
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The Abbess of Vlaye (1904)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1904

Seller ID: VN0951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes uniformly bound in early C20th black leather over lilac beaded cloth; raised bands and brown leather title labels on spines; orange-and-white patterned endpapers. Light scuffing to leather, small chip to edge of title label on Volume 1, otherwise very good. Todd [3772a/73]. First issue with contents pages in Volume 1 incorrectly numbered. Series half-title bound in. Setting: France in the reign of Henri IV (1595)
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Queen's Folly (1925)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1927

Seller ID: VN1342

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Cheaper (ie third] Edition. Original light brown cloth. Spine sunned, bookplate on front pastedown, a little foxing, good.
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Under the Red Robe (1894)

By: Weyman, Stanley J. [Stanley John Weyman]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 84114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Third Edition in Two Volumes. Two volumes in original fine-ribbed scarlet cloth, lettered in gilt; cream endpapers. Corners rubbed, light scuffing, a trifle darkened on spines, traces of removed bookplates on each front board; light stain along leading edge of front board on volume I. A good set. Collates as the first edition (Sadleir 3314), with publisher's catalogues also dated April 1894. The third of the three novels by Weyman published in the multi-volume format (the other being The New Rector, 2 volumes in 1891; and A Gentleman of France, 3 volumes in 1893).
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The Autobiography of a Notorious Legal Functionary (1835 as The Autobiography of Jack Ketch)

By: Whitehead, Charles

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, J. Chidley: 1838

Seller ID: 94116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Third Edition. With fourteen plates. Mid C19th green cloth, with blindstamped decorations on boards, lettered in gilt on spine ("Jack Ketch"), no publisher's name on binding. Short splits to cloth on upper ends of hinges, foxing, otherwise good. A novel purporting to be the autobiography of the infamous executioner.
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The League of Saint Louis (1913)

By: Whitelaw, David

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1913

Seller ID: 02657

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Undated [1913]. Original dark red cloth; rosette in white on front board; lettered in blue (front board) and gilt (spine). A little light foxing, otherwise near fine. A wild adventure set in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Whitelaw wrote adventure and crime novels from the mid 1890s until the 1950s, but also found time to invent the (very successful) spelling card game, Lexicon.
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Sarchedon. A Legend of the Great Queen (1871)

By: Whyte-Melville, G. J. [George John Whyte-Melville]

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1880

Seller ID: 03986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

New Edition. Undated (c1880). Original green cloth, framed in black, lettered in gilt with ornament containing the author's initials in centre of front board; yellow endpapers. Corners lightly scuffed, impressed stamp on front free endpaper, otherwise near fine. A novel sent in ancient Assyria, with elements of (mild) fantasy.
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Sons of the Sword A Romance of the Peninsula War (1901)

By: Woods, Margaret L. [Margaret Louise Woods]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1901

Seller ID: 04127

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original crimson cloth, illustrated in black and lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, later endpapers, light foxing, good.
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The Caged Lion (1870)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1876

Seller ID: 01369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Fourth Edition. 6 illustrations. Original green cloth, with bands of black & gilt on front board and spine; brown endpapers. Free corners rubbed, a little cracking to inner joint paper only (joints tight), a few marks on cloth, good. An historical novel for younger readers. Period: c 1407 - 1423. Subject: the imprisonment of King James I of Scotland by the English.
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The Caged Lion (1870)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1870

Seller ID: 01458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second edition. Illustrated. Contemporary full tan leather, with raised bands, ornate gilt tooling & title label on spine; gilt boarder on boards, maroon marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks on boards. A very good and attractively bound copy of this historical novel for younger readers. Period: c 1407 - 1423. Subject: the imprisonment of King James I of Scotland by the English.
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The Caged Lion (1870)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1870

Seller ID: VN0523

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Second Edition. Illustrated. Original green cloth, brown endpapers. Corners bumped, light oxing, inscription (1871) on half-title, good+
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The Release or Caroline's French Kindred (1896)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 03706

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1896]. Original blue cloth, with borders blocked in gilt (at head) and blind (at foot) of front board. Light scuffing, otherwise very good. Publisher's catalogue dated January 1896 bound in at end.
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Grisly Grisell or The Laidly Lady of Whitburn. A Tale of the Wars of the Roses (1893)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London., Macmillan & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: VN1790

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Publisher's presentation copy, with impressed stamp on title page. A few marks on cloth, otherwise tight bright binding; a little foxing, good.
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The Caged Lion (1870)

By: Yonge, Charlotte M. [Charlotte Mary Yonge]

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1880

Seller ID: VN1856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Novels and Tales Volume XIII. Original pale brown cloth, with gilt bands on front board; black endappers. Small chip at foot of spine, lightly sunned, bookplate of Ethel Grenfell on front pastedown, good. An historical novel for younger readers. Period: c 1407 - 1423. Subject: the imprisonment of King James I of Scotland by the English.
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