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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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One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre (1835)

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

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1850

Seller ID: 90067

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Parlour Library, Vol XXXV. Mid C19th binding in green leather over blue and black marbled boards; blue marbled endpapers. Small chip at foot of spine, extremities a little rubbed, signatures (1863) on blank prelim, good.
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Heidelberg (1846)

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

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1890

Seller ID: 95079

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Copyright Edition:, c1890. Late C19th black leather over marbled boards; raised bands and red leather title label on spine; pale brown endpapers. Light scuffing, light foxing, faint tanning to page edges, very good. Todd [108Ad]. Fourth issue of the first setting. Series half-title bound in. Dated 1846 but actually from c1890.
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Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold (1830)

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

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Simms & McIntyre: 1850

Seller ID: 96054

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Parlour Library. Mid-C19th blue-green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; all edges red. A little foxing, signature (1850) on title page, very good. James's second historical novel, dealing with events early in the reign of Henry VIII.
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The Silver Cross. A Romance (1898)

By: Keightley, S. R. [Samuel Robert Keightley]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 82046

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated. Original grey-blue cloth, decorated in silver and gilt on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Endpapers browned, otherwise very good. A historical romance in the manner of Dumas. Set in France during the reign of Louis XIV.
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Mistress Beatrice Cope or Passages in the Life of a Jacobite's Daughter (1889)

By: Le Clerc, M. E.

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1890

Seller ID: 04141

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

One-Volume Edition, Standard Library. Undated (c1890). Original green morocco cloth on bevelled boards, with butterfly in gilt in centre of front board; dark green endpapers. Lightly scuffed, a little foxing, very good. A historical romance.
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Orrain (1904)

By: Levett-Yeats, S. [Sidney Levett-Yeats]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1905

Seller ID: 04368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Early C20th black leather over orange-and-brown mottled board. Small scrape on spine, label for the lending library of the English Church of the Holy Trinity, Florence on front board, small stamp and signatures on front endpapers, good. Todd [3794]. First/only issue: series half-title bound in. A historical romance set in France during the reign of Henry II, described by Baker in Historical Fiction as "a second Gentleman of France" but also "a breathless rush of adventure, all utterly improbable...".
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He Would be a Gentleman or Treasure Trove. Being a Romantic Irish Tale of the Last Century

By: Lover, Samuel

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Sons: 1873

Seller ID: 01359

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Illustrations by the author. Original green cloth, blocked in black and gilt; grey endpapers. A little scuffing, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), otherwise bright and very good. NB: although printed by Routledge, the binding is by Chapman & Hall. A historical novel set in 1745: the hero is a follower of the Young Pretender and the action moves between Belgium and Scotland. A heavy volume which will require some additional postage.
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To Right the Wrong (1894)

By: Lyall, Edna [ie Ada Bayly]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1894

Seller ID: 02761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original tan cloth, ruled in black and gilt; lettered in gilt on spine; dark brown endpapers. Minor scuffing otherwise very good. An historical novel of the English Civil War, featuring John Hampden the great parliamentarian.
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Her Majesty's Rebels (1907)

By: Lysaght, S. R. [Sidney Royse Lysaght]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 85120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original fine-ribbed emerald green cloth, with blindstamped shamrock designs on front board, lettered in gilt. Light scuffing, foxing on early/late pages, inscription on front free endpaper, very good. Inscription reads: Evelyn Hellicar from S. R. Lysaght March 1907. The hero, Desmond, is clearly based on the Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell.
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Pausanias the Spartan An Unfinished Historical Romance

By: Lytton, Lord [Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1877

Seller ID: 03364

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First issue in The Knebworth Edition. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Small owner's name label on front pastedown, otherwise near fine.
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Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings

By: Lytton, Lord [Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton]

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler: 1907

Seller ID: VN1258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated reprint, c1907. Frontispiece. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Spine faintly sunned and scuffed on tips, prize plate (1907) on front pastedown, very good.
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