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The Virginians A Tale of the Last Century (1858 - 59)

By: Thackeray, W. M. [William Makepeace Thackeray]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1859

Seller ID: 04088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Four volumes bound as two in mid-C19th brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spines. A little foxing, inner joint paper lightly cracking. otherwise a good set. Todd [425b/ 441a/470A/477]. Second and first issues/settings. Series half-titles bound in.
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Philippi the Guardsman (1898)

By: Threlfall, T. R.

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 02945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1898]. Illustrated. Original fine-ribbed crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Light mark on spine, corners scuffed, endpapers browned, otherwise good. "The story of Napoleon's Russian Campaign has seldom been treated with more grim actuality" (review in The Times)
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Heart's Delight (1906)

By: Tracy, Louis

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1906

Seller ID: 94122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original black cloth, with blindstamped ruling, lettering in gilt and with illustration on glazed paper on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Extremities lightly scuffed, a little light foxing, good. Historical novel following "the Indian adventures of Roger Mowbray...[and] the love story of Nur Mahal".
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Orley Farm

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1885

Seller ID: VN3522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Edition. Select Library of Fiction. Undated, c1885. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in dark green, black and gilt; pale brown patterned endpapers. Closed tear at head of spine, good.
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Lady Bell. A Story of the Last Century (1873)

By: Tytler, Sarah [ie Henrietta Keddie]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Daldy, Isbister & Co.: 1874

Seller ID: 87106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[One-Volume Edition. Illustrated. Original green cloth blocked in black and lettered in gilt. A few marks on spine and rear board, later endpapers, light foxing, otherwise good. One of Tytler's adult titles, originally published as a three-decker in 1873.
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The Diamond Rose. A Life of Love and Duty (1867)

By: Tytler, Sarah [ie Henrietta Keddie]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Alexander Strahan: 1867

Seller ID: 93138

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original navy blue cloth on bevelled boards, framed and decorated in gilt, lettered in gilt on spines; brown endpapers; all edges gilt. Corners lightly rubbed, tiny chip at head of spine, two small tears to half-title, undated inscription of front free endpaper, good. Wolff [6901]. Historical novel set largely in Edinburgh in the first two decades of the eighteenth century.
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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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The High Toby Being Further Chapters in the Life and Fortunes of Dick Ryder, Otherwise Galloping Dick, Sometime Gentleman of the Road

By: Watson, H. B. Marriott [Henry Brereton Marriott Watson]

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co.: 1906

Seller ID: VN3556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Light sunning on spine and board edges, otherwise good.
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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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