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Oliver Ellis; or, The Fusiliers (1861)

By: Grant, James

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Co.: 1870

Seller ID: 04390

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition. Undated, c1870. Mid -C19th green binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Two undated signatures, bookplate on front pastedown, very good. The wild adventures of a young man pressed into military service and carried off to action in the West Indies in the turbulent years after the French Revolution.
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The Fighters (1907)

By: Greville, Lady Violet

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1907

Seller ID: 91093

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original grey cloth, lettered and framed in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. A few marks on cloth, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise very good. Violet Greville was aristocratic by birth and marriage, wrote a series of three-decker novels in the 1880s, and was a society columnist for The Graphic. She lived to the age of 90 (dying in 1942) but it seems that The Fighters was her last work. The novel is an historical romance woven around Napoleon Bonaparte and a "Woman of Destiny".
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One Crowded Hour (1912)

By: Grier, Sydney C. [ie Hilda Caroline Gregg]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons: 1912

Seller ID: 01878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, illustrated with flag-waving soldier in black. Spine a trifle sunned, lacks frontispiece: thus good reading copy of scarce title. A novel of the Italian Risorgimento.
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The Warden of the Marches (1901)

By: Grier, Sydney C. [ie Hilda Caroline Gregg]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, William Blackwood & Sons: 1901

Seller ID: 03727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Second Impression. Illustrated. Original maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in black (gilt on spine); black endpapers. Bookplate on front pastedown, light foxing, otherwise very good. A novel of love and war on the Indian frontier, where a dead soldier is supposed to ride at night in times of danger -- the ghostly rider is pictured in the frontispiece. Publisher's catalogue dated 4/01 bound in at end.
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Image for Marco Visconti, translated from the Italian by A[lice] F[rances] D[ugdale], the ballads rendered into English verse by C. M. P. [Marco Visconti, 1834]

Marco Visconti, translated from the Italian by A[lice] F[rances] D[ugdale], the ballads rendered into English verse by C. M. P. [Marco Visconti, 1834]

By: Grossi, Tomaso

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, George Bell & Sons: 1881

Seller ID: 03868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bohn's Novelist's Library. Original blue cloth, with black lines head/foot of front board, lettered in gilt on spine; black endpapers. A few light marks on cloth, foxing (especially on prelims) otherwise very good. Grossi's novel is set in the early part of the C14th, in Milan and the area around Lake Como.
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Pearl-Maiden. A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem (1903)

By: Haggard, H. Rider [Henry Rider Haggard]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Green & Co.: 1903

Seller ID: VN2155

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt; black endpapers. A few faint marks on boards, foxing spots, undated signature on verso of front free endpaper, very good.
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Child of Storm (Mameena) (1913)

By: Haggard, H. Rider [Henry Rider Haggard]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Cassell & Co: 1914

Seller ID: VN2233

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated reprint, c1914. Original red cloth, lettered in black, Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks, paper faintly tanned, otherwise a clean, tight copy: good.
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Hannibal's Daughter (1898)

By: Haggard, Lieutenant Colonel Andrew

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 03522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original green cloth, with cameo of horse on front board, lettered in gilt; green endpapers. Light scuffing, faint trace of removed plate on front board, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), bookplate on front pastedown, good. A romance of the Carthaginian War by the brother of H. Rider Haggard.
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Will Hewling A Tale of Weymouth in the Olden Time

By: Hall, Alice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Weymouth, Sherren: 1900

Seller ID: 01297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated, c1900. An historical novel set in Weymouth; by a local authoress; published and printed in Weymouth; with adverts for local businesses at the rear. Unsurprisingly this novel is not recorded anywhere on COPAC. Original pinky-red cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly marked, good.
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Coronation (1902)

By: Hamilton, Bernard

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1902

Seller ID: 04270

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original blindstamped blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Light scuffing, light foxing, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, good. Historical novel dealing with the youth and kingship of Henry V (covering some of the same ground as Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts I & II and Henry V) and attempting to delineate the true character of "Falstaff".
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The Tireless Rider A Tale of the Eighteenth Century (1909)

By: Hart, J. Wesley [John Wesley Hart]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Robert Cully: 1909

Seller ID: VN2447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated first edition [1909]. Original illustrated boards. Lightly grazed, some foxing, presentation plate (1915) on front pastedown, undated address on front free endpaper, very good.
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Castle Cornet: or, The Island's Troubles in Troublous Times. A Story of the Channel Islands (1872)

By: Hawtrey, Louisa

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, S. P. C. K. [Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge]: 1900

Seller ID: VN2601

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint. Illustrated. Original grey-green cloth, lettered and illustrated in black. Lightly sunned, very good.
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Gwynett of Thornhaugh A Romance (1900)

By: Hayes, Frederick W[illiam]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 03606

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated by the author. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine and board edges lightly sunned, undated inscription on front free endpaper, good. A sequel to the Hayes's earlier novel A Kent Squire: Being a Record of Certain Adventures of Ambrose Gwynett, Esquire, of Thornhaugh (1900). Indeed the running titles suggest the book was originally to have been called The Further Adventures of a Kent Squire. An historical romance of love and politics, in England, Holland and France, around 1712.
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The Queen's Quair or The Six Years' Tragedy

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £14.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1904

Seller ID: 00070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Collection of British Authors, Volumes 3750/51. 2 volumes bound as 1 in green cloth, with black leather title label on spine. Minimal scuffing, very good. Todd & Bowden [3750a/51]. First issues. Series half-titles bound in.
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Frey and His Wife (1916)

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1916

Seller ID: 01307

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece. Original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Scuffed, otherwise good. A novel inspired by Norse saga and mythology.
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Brazenhead the Great (1911)

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 01630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original red cloth. A trifle darkened on board edges, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good.
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The Light Heart (1920)

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £14.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1920

Seller ID: 01631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original scarlet cloth. Very bright, near fine.
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Fond Adventures. Tales of the Youth of the World (1905)

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 02640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original blue cloth, with repeated pattern of blindstamped hearts. Minimal scuffing, otherwise a very bright, crisp copy, near fine. Contains 4 stories: The Heart's Key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte's Saga & The Love Chase.
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Fond Adventures. Tales of the Youth of the World (1905)

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £8.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: VN0621

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Original blue cloth, with repeated pattern of blindstamped hearts. Minimal scuffing, otherwise very good. Contains 4 stories: The Heart's Key, Brazenhead the Great, Buondelmonte's Saga & The Love Chase.
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The Queen's Quair or The Six Years' Tragedy (1904)

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1904

Seller ID: VN3161

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Macmillan's Colonial Library, Volume 479. Original fine-ribbed navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed on edges, light staining on fore-edges and pages 64 - 65, otherwise tight, good. A novel concerning Mary, Queen of Scots.
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