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The Bystander or Leaves for the Lazy (1901)

By: Ashby-Sterry, J. [Joseph Ashby-Sterry]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Sands & Co: 1901

Seller ID: 93048

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

First Edition: Sands & Co., 1901. decorated in gilt; top edge gilt. Leading edges of boards lightly marked, spine a little darkened with fraying to tips and small chips towards the foot, light foxing, fair to good. Inscription at head of title page reads: To Theodore Watts-Dunton with J. Ashby-Sterry's kind regards. A collection of miscellaneous essays, originally appearing in The Graphic. Watts-Dunton was a poet, novelist and essayist, best remembered for saving the poet Algernon Swinburne from alcoholism.
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A Saga of the Sea (1929)

By: Austin, F. Britten [Frederick Britten Austin]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ernest Benn: 1929

Seller ID: 95027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original crimson cloth, lettered in black on spine. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise very good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Miss Jill Arnison with much appreciation of her help & the good wishes of F Britten Austin. 30 Jan 1932. A collection of ten stories, on the theme of war, through history from Ancient Greece to the end of the nineteenth century.
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A Prince of Edom (1898)

By: Ballingal, James

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Paisley, Alexander Gardner: 1898

Seller ID: 04290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt. Endpapers replaced, a little scuffing, light foxing, good. Inscription on half title reads: Mrs Mavis [?] With the Author's Kind Regards. An Old Testament historical novel, featuring Kings David and Solomon, and the Queen of Sheba.
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Leaders of the Blind

By: Bannerman, Sir Alexander

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, National Review: 1924

Seller ID: VN3395

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Undated, but inscribed by the author: "Arthur D Richardson with the Author's compliments 5th August, 924" on front free endpaper. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in black. Spine lightly sunned, endpapers browned, very good.
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Episodes in a Policeman's Life

By: Bessell, James C.

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Arthur H. Stockwell: 1933

Seller ID: VN2479

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Presumed first edition -- no copies of this title on WorldCat or COPAC to compare. Original blue cloth. A little darkened at the foot of the front board, light foxing, very good. Inscription facing title page reads "With the Author's Compliments. James C. Bessell 10/7/33". Fiction based on personal experience.
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The Amazing Lady (1899)

By: Bowles, M. [Mamie Bowles]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1899

Seller ID: VN2493

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pale green cloth, lettered and decorated (with twigs and blossom) in dark green and white on front board, and spine. Spine darkened and scuffed on ends, otherwise good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads (rather oddly): "Mamie's dedication to Beresford". The novel was reviewed in The Spectator: "[Magda Stacpoole's] engage- ment to, and ultimate rescue from, a deliriously decadent lover is described with an intoxicating exuberance of polysyllabic preciosity."
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The Wounded Name (1922)

By: Broster, D. K. [Dorothy Kathleen Broster]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1922

Seller ID: 94094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original purple cloth, lettered and framed in green on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine sunned, a few light marks, good. Signed by the author ("D. K. Broster") on front free endpaper.
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A Woman of Shawmut. A Romance of Colonial Times (1891)

By: Carpenter, Edmund Janes

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Boston (Mass), Little, Brown & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 04074

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original two-tone cloth: boards white with cameo of woman's head in white, pink and gilt; spine brown, lettered in gilt. A little marking on cloth, otherwise very good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Mrs Frank D. Allen with the kind regards of the author E. J. Carpenter, May 1894.
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Hark Forward! (1891)

By: Cotton, Mark

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall etc: 1891

Seller ID: 90032

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Two-t0ne cloth, joined across the diagonal (top left to bottom right); red and cream, lettered and decoratively framed in gilt; green-and-white leaf-patterned endpapers. Spine lightly sunned and board edges marked, thus only good. The dedication leaf (preceding contents page) gives a printed reproduction of letter from Cotton to a "Mrs Jessop"; but there is a presentation note in author's actual handwriting ("Miss Stoddart with the Author's compliments | December 11th 1893. F. C") on a blank prelim. A sporting novel (mainly hunting).
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A King of Space (1925)

By: Cowdroy, Joan A. [Joan Agnes Cowdroy]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1926

Seller ID: 04223

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated, c1926. Original blue boards, framed and blocked in gilt. Spine quite sunned, first leaf used as pastedown, small nicks on board edges, good. Inscribed by the author on the title page: With cordial wishes, Joan A. Cowdroy Christmas 29. Cowdroy wrote a number of crime novels in the 1930s and 1940s. This early title is something rather different. A review from an Australian newspaper (The Queenslander) reveals that The King of Space is concerned with a young man who loses his memory after a railway accident and who is then treated by a brain specialist, who turns out to be his own (estra...
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By Shamrock and Heather (1897)

By: Downe, Walmer

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Digby, Long & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: 88107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original navy blue cloth, with chrysanthemum design in gilt along right portion of front board, lettered in gilt; green-and-white patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, paper on front inner joint lightly cracked, good. Inscription on title page reads: To Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Pitt with the Author's compliments and best wishes, Edin 15/7/99. A gentle tale set largely in Ulster. Scarce.
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Christian Thal, A Novel

By: Francis, M. E. [ie Mary Blundell]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1919

Seller ID: 01385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Impression. Signed by the author facing the title page: To Philip Williamson, with best wishes from the Author Xmas 1919. Mary Blundell "M. E. Francis". Original green cloth. Corners rubbed, spine lightly sunned, good. A novel on a musical theme. Mr Williamson was obviously not a close friend, as he only got given a reprint, and that 4 years after it was issued!
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Simple Annals (1906)

By: Francis, M. E. [ie Mary Blundell]

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1915

Seller ID: 92084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New Impression. Original light green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Spine sunned, a little faint foxing, good. Inscription on verso of half-title reads Mary Blundell "( M. E. Francis").
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Sporting Tales (1893)

By: Kennard, Mrs Edward [ie Mary Kennard]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co: 1893

Seller ID: VN2286

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original green cloth, with blindstamped panels of leaves on front board, lettered in black and gilt. Board edges damp marked, otherwise a tight copy, fair/good. Inscribed and signed by the author. Rhyming inscription on verso of front free endpaper reads: A little book/And yet it took/A good, long time to write./Still if it please/And dull care flees/My toil will then seem light/Mary E. Kennard.
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Tales of Two Countries, translated from the Norwegian by William Archer. With an Introduction by H. H. Boyesen (1891_

By: Kielland, Alexander [& Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen]

Price: £25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1891

Seller ID: 90006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Rebound in late C19th black leather over blue marbled boards; pale blue marbled endpapers. Hinges rubbed, good. Signed by Boyesen ("H. H. Boyesen") on blank prelim. Boyesen was born in Norway and emigrated to the U. S. A. at the age of 21. He became the first Norwegian author to write a novel (Gunnar, 1874) in his adopted country. He was a noted linguist and academic, and therefore the ideal candidate to provide an introduction to the work of Alexander Kielland, a compatriot who remained firmly in Norway, spending much of his life in and around Stavanger.
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The Temple of Pallas Athen

By: Lewys, George [Margot Asquith]

Price: £16.00

Publisher: New York, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only: 1924

Seller ID: 00468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Presentation Copy to Margot Asquith. First Edition. No 413 of 995 signed copied issued. Frontispiece. Original orange cloth over blue moir boards. Spine darkened, some soiling and partial ring mark on boards: fair/good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: Margot Asquith with Compliments of the Author. New York 1924 George Lewys. Margot Asquith was the famously witty wife of the British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. It seems Lewys signed every copy of his book: but this one has a nice association to a leading figure in early C20th society.
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A Maid in Armour. Tales of Olde Ilford (1906)

By: Locks, Walter Alexander

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Elliot Stock: 1906

Seller ID: 95020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a few marks, good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To my daughter Enid/With the Author's love/Christmas 1920. Seven historical stories set in and around the Essex town, now part of south-east London.
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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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Fabulous Fancies (1903)

By: Maxwell, W. B. [William Babington Maxwell]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Grant Richards: 1903

Seller ID: 92132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original pale blue cloth with single line border in gilt, lettered in gilt. Corners lightly rubbed, spine somewhat dulled, inscription on front free endpaper, a little foxing, good. Inscription reads: Dorothy Du Cane from the Author Dec. 1903. Maxwell's third book.
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Speaking Rather Seriously (1908)

By: Ridge, W. Pett [William Pett Ridge]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1908

Seller ID: 87041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Frontispiece photograph of author. Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Free endpapers tipped in, lightly scuffed, spine faintly sunned, a little foxing, good. The printed dedication -- To the wise in the hope they will agree with me -- has been amended and signed by the author, to now read To the wise Richard Bownton in the hope he will agree with me W. Pett Ridge Easter 1908. A series of essays on aspects of life in London
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