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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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Beacon Fires. War Stories of the Coast (1897)

By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Grainger]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 85114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original illustrated green cloth, lettered in red, black and gilt. Corners lightly scuffed, foxing spots on early pages, tear to edge of blank prelim, otherwise very good. Tales of the Kentish coast during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Augustin and Wenonda. A Tale for the Young. Translated from the German of Franz Hoffman (1857)

By: Hoffman, Franz

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Judd & Glass: 1857

Seller ID: VN0940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Young Englands' Illustrated Library. Illustrated. Original blindstamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Spine and board edges sunned, undated signature in red on front free endpaper, foxing/spotting: good. A juvenile story of settlers in early America: Augustin is a European "pale-face"; Wenonda the son of the chief of the Delaware tribe.
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Ashcliffe Hall A Tale of the Last Century (1870)

By: Holt, Emily S. [Emily Sarah Holt]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, John F. Shaw: 1894

Seller ID: 04137

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition. Undated (c1894). Frontispiece. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt and black; brown-and-white patterned endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, a few light marks on rear board, inscription (1894) on title page, very good. One of the series of Holt's novels issued under the title Tales of English Life in the Olden Time.
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For Freedom (1899)

By: Hopkins, Tighe

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1899

Seller ID: 02837

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

New Edition. Title page printed in red and black. Original deep pink cloth, blocked in brown, lettered in gilt; grey-and-white patterned endpapers. Corners bumped, spine a little sunned, signature on half-title. Crisp, tight, very good. A novel of the Italian War of Liberation (1859): the military actions of Garibaldi and the political machinations of Cavour.
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Wood Leighton; or, A Year in the Country (1836)

By: Howitt, Mary

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Walter Scott: 1885

Seller ID: 02374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint, c1885. Four hand-coloured plates. Original emerald green cloth on bevelled boards, blocked in black and gilt; cream endpapers, all edges gilt. Extremities scuffed, very good. First published in three volumes in 1836. Howitt's first full-length adult novel: a closely-observed portrait of life in a country village.
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Henry Masterton; or, The Adventures of a Young Cavalier (1832)

By: James, G. P. R, [George Payne Rainsford James]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1851

Seller ID: 97055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[Parlour Library]. Mid C19th full green leather, framed, decorated and lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt. A little scuffing to extremities, light foxing, otherwise very good.
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John Marston Hall; or, Little Ball o' Fire

By: James, G. P. R. [George Payne Rainsford JAMES]

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1851

Seller ID: VN0217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Parlour Library. Mid C19th rebinding in brown binders' cloth. Spine lightly sunned, chipped at head, otherwise fair/good.
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Richelieu

By: James, G. P. R. [George Payne Rainsford James]

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Collins' Clear-Type Press: 1910

Seller ID: VN1361

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated pocket edition, c1910. original fine-ribbed crimson cloth, with crimson endpapers. Frontispiece. Spine a little sunned, bookplate on front pastedown, good.
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Agincourt (1844) & Sir Theodore Broughton; or, Laurel Water (1848)

By: James, G. P. R. [George Payne Rainsford James]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1852

Seller ID: 86094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Agincourt (1844). Parlour Library: Simms & McIntyre, 1852. Bound with Sir Theodore Broughton; or, Laurel Water (1848). Parlour Library: Simms & McIntyre, 1853. Two volumes bound as one in mid C19th crimson leather over maroon marbled board; black leather title label on spine. Spine lightly sunned, minimal foxing, owner's signatures (1854 etc) on prelims and first page of text, very good.
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