Barnaby Rudge. 1911.
£25.00DICKENS, Charles. Barnaby Rudge. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Company, 1911. A charming copy of this Dickens classic.
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Cranford A Tale. 1901.
£15.00GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn. (1810 – 1865). Cranford A Tale. [Part of The Temple Classics Series]. Frontispiece of the author. 8vo. London: J.M. Dent, 1901.
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Northanger Abbey & Persuasion. 1923.
£60.00AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817), R. W. Chapman [compiler]. The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources. Volume V- NORTHANGER ABBEY: AND PERSUASION. 14 illustrations: including folding plan of the City of Bath, and frontispiece to Mrs Parsons’ The Mysterious Warning…, and Title Page of Mrs. Radcliffe’s The Mysterious Udolpho. LARGE-PAPER EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,000 SETS, OF WHICH 950 ARE FOR SALE. 8vo. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923. A lovely book and the ideal gift for Jane Austen fans. Rare
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The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. 1911.
£22.00DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. Illustrations throughout. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1911.
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The Old Curiosity Shop And Master Humphrey’s Clock. 1909.
£12.00DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). The Old Curiosity Shop And Master Humphrey’s Clock. 8vo. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1909.
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Ernest Maltravers or, The Eleusinia… 1862.
£40.00BULWER LYTTON, Sir Edward. Ernest Maltravers or, The Eleusinia. Part The First & …. Part The Second. 2 volumes. Frontispiece to each volume. 8vo. London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862.
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Poor Jack. [1896].
£18.00MARRYAT, Captain [Frederick] (1792-1848). S.H. Vedder (Illustrations). Poor Jack. 6 plates (mis-bound but present). Viii, 346, [22 pp. adverts], pp. Interior: Pages age toned, occasional spotting. Sheet of publisher’s adverts tipped in on front endpaper (tearing to advert page, endpapers slightly soiled). Exterior: Publisher’s brown, pink and gilt pictorial cloth (light wear and rubbing). 8vo. London: Walter Scott Limited, [no date c.1896- publisher’s adverts at rear dated 1896].
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Susy’s Sacrifice. [Quirky mis-binding]. 1899.
£27.00Quirky Binding: Scarce Victorian Novel. [MATTHEWS, JULIA A]. Susy’s Sacrifice. 299pp. 3 plates (including frontispiece which is bound elsewhere in the book, i.e. not at the title page). Interior: Occasional light foxing/spotting, age toning to pages. Binding: This book has been re-bound using different binding (red calf, decorated in gilt) of another book entitled: ‘My Lady Nicotine’. (Presumably the J.M. Barrie novel), light rubbing and wear to boards, corners, and extremities, gold leaf to corners of text block. 8vo. London, J. Nisbet & Co., 1899.
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St. Ronan’s Well… 1845.
£45.00SCOTT, Sir Walter (1771-1832). St. Ronan’s Well. With all his Illustrations [1]* and Notes. Text in two columns. As part of a larger set in this edition. Interior: sporadic light spotting/foxing throughout, pages age toned. Exterior: Quarter red morocco with green cloth boards (binding heavily worn spine cover lacking, upper board hanging by a thread, remanence of erased old label to upper board.) [2], 177-332, [2], pp. 8vo./4to (size): Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1845.
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Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors. 1900.
£67.50LIMITED EDITION OF 947 COPIES OF WHICH THIS COPY IS NUMBER 244. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ELBERT HUBBARD AND ALSO ILLUMINATOR IDA METCALF. HUBBARD, Elbert.(1856-1915). Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors. 6 monochrome frontispiece illustrations depicted the various authors: Thomas Macaulay, Lord Byron, Joseph Addison, Robert Southey, Samuel T. Coleridge, Benjamin Disraeli. Illuminated title page, illuminated floral borders to the first page of each chapter. Illuminated letters. Green suede soft cover (spine faded, covers fading). 8vo. New York: Roycrofters, 1900.
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The Red Badge of Courage. 1900.
£45.00Scarce, early paper-back edition. An amazing survivor! CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). The Red Badge of Courage. Early soft-cover edition. (Pages age-toned, some minor tearing without loss to text). Publisher’s cream pictorial wrapper (lacking lower wrapper, spine chipped with loss, upper wrapper detached with first few pages, some chipping and tearing, please note the last pages of this book are the two pages of adverts). London: William Heinemann, 1900.
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The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers… 1824.
£99.00The History of Jack and his Eleven Brothers; Displaying the various Adventures They Encountered In Their Travels, &c. &c. Hand-coloured frontispiece, two hand-coloured plates (one plate detached and trimmed- not affecting the image, occasional light spotting throughout, pages lightly soiled, one or two tears with loss to blank margins-not affecting text, one or two creases and closed tears here and there, corners folded over in places, mis-pagination between pages 56-59, 66-69: text runs on fine). Later crudely stitched marbled wrappers (lacking original publisher’s wrappers, text block broken in places, no endpapers). Small 8vo. London: T. Hughes, 1824.
£110.00
