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By: Ashby-Sterry, J. [Joseph Ashby-Sterry]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Sands & Co: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 93048
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. View more info
By: Ballingal, James
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Paisley, Alexander Gardner: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 04290
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. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Arthur H. Stockwell: 1933
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: VN2479
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. View more info
By: Beswick, Harry
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Clarion Press: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: VN2038
Condition: Very Good
Collection of short stories. Original navy blue cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Lightly scuffed, very good. Inscription on half title reads: To my dear old chum & "best man" Harvey Gee from the author Septr 1904 "May the Wing of friendship never moult a feather" Richard Swiveller. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, John Lane, The Bodley Head: 1911
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 88027
Condition: Good
Original green cloth, framed and illustrated in black, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, a few light marks, light foxing, very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: With kind regards from the Author. Eighteenth century historical romance: the hero, Dick Maynard, is unjustly accused of being a highwayman. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1899
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: VN2493
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." View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: New York, Sheldon & Co.: 1875
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 90005
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated in black and gilt, yellow endpapers. Rubbed and nicked at head of spine, one corner creased, otherwise good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: To Algernon R. Boyesen from his affectionate father Hjalmar H. Boyesen...May 1892. 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, and followed it with A Norseman's Pilgrimage in 1875. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Boston (Mass), Little, Brown & Co.: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 04074
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. View more info
By: Cotton, Mark
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall etc: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 90032
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). View more info
By: Cowdroy, Joan A. [Joan Agnes Cowdroy]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1926
Edition: 2nd Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 04223
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... View more info
By: Downe, Walmer
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Digby, Long & Co.: 1898
Edition: 2nd Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 88107
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. View more info
By: Francis, M. E. [ie Mary Blundell]
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1919
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 01385
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! View more info
By: Francis, M. E. [ie Mary Blundell]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green & Co.: 1915
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 92084
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"). View more info
By: Holmes, Robert
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London & Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons: 1918
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 93119
Condition: Good
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Gilt a little dulled, boards slightly bowed, wartime paper tanned throughout, good. Inscription on front free endpapers reads: The very Rev. the Dean of Worcester with Robert Holmes's esteem and regard, 18 Friary Road, Sheffield, Oct. 1918. "All but one of the characters sketched in this volume are selected out of some three hundred ex-convicts I have had a hand in seeking to help these twenty years...". Case studies of criminals written up as short stories by a Police Court Missionary. View more info
By: Kennard, Mrs Edward [ie Mary Kennard]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co: 1893
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: VN2286
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. View more info
By: Kielland, Alexander [& Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1891
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Editor/Compiler
Seller ID: 90006
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. View more info
By: Lewys, George [Margot Asquith]
Price: £16.00
Publisher: New York, Privately Printed for Subscribers Only: 1924
Seller ID: 00468
Condition: Fair
Presentation Copy to Margot Asquith. First Edition. No 413 of 995 signed copied issued. Frontispiece. Original orange cloth over blue moiré 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. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1925
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 85121
Condition: Good
Original light blue cloth, lettered in black. Cloth a little sunned on spine, a few faint marks, some foxing, good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: Dear Juliet, with love from the writer Marie Belloc Lowndes. Eight short stories, including some crime. View more info
By: Lysaght, S. R. [Sidney Royse Lysaght]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1907
Edition: 2nd Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 85120
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. View more info
By: Maxwell, W. B. [William Babington Maxwell]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Grant Richards: 1903
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 92132
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. View more info
