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RICHARDBEATON CATALOGUE 100

Dr Richard Beaton24 Highdown RoadLewesEast Sussex 01273 474147BN7 1QDE-mail: richard.vic.fic@gmail.comWeb site: www.victorian-novels.co.uk

Catalogue 100, September 2021

REFERENCE SOURCESXIX Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Record SADLEIRNineteenth-Century Fiction. A Bibliographical Catalogue WOLFFTauchnitz International Editions in English 1841–1955 TODD & BOWDENCrime Fiction II HUBINWellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals HOUGHTON etcA Guide to Historical Fiction BAKERA Descriptive Guide to the Best Fiction BAKERVictorian Yellowbacks and Paperbacks TOPPEdwardian Fiction. An Oxford Companion KEMP etc.Rudyard Kipling. A Biographical Catalogue STEWARTLongman Companion to Victorian Fiction SUTHERLAND

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1 AIDE, Hamilton: Introduced to Society (1884)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1884. Late C19th red cloth over marbled boards, black leathertitle label on spine. Spine faintly sunned, inscription (1885) at head of first page of text,otherwise very good. £25.00Todd [2271A]. First setting. Bound without series half-title. An Australian heiress is taken up by animpoverished Baronet and his family.

2 ALL THE YEAR ROUNDNew Series, Volumes XII - XV, April 1874 - March 1876Contains: A Narrow Escape by Annie THOMAS. Complete serialisation.Safely Married by Emily JOLLY. Complete serialisation.A Silent Witness by Edmund YATES. Complete serialisation.A Charming Fellow by Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE. Complete serialisation.Halves by James PAYN. Complete serialisation.Griffith’s Double by Mrs Cashel HOEY. Start of serialisation.Extra Xmas Number for 1874: The Opal Ring. All contributions anonymous.Extra Xmas Number for 1875. Davy’s Locker. All contributions anonymous.Short stories include: Fatal Fortune by Wilkie COLLINS.Four volumes uniformly bound in black leather over brown marbled boards; red leather titlelabels on spines. Paper on boards grazed, with small area of loss on front board of last volume,foxing on prelims, otherwise clean and tight, good. £120.00

3 ALLARDYCE, Alexander: Balmoral. A Romance of the Queen’s Country (1893)New Edition: William Blackwood & Sons, 1896. Original red cloth with blindstampeddecorations on front board, lettered in black and gilt. Light splash marks on front board,endpapers tanned, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), good. £30.00Historical novel: set in and around Deeside at the time of the Jacobite rising of 1715.

4 ALLEN, Grant [and others]: The General’s Will and Other Stories (1893 as Stories fromBlack and White)[Reprint]: Richard Butterworth, nd (c1900). Original green cloth, lettered and decorated inblack (title on boards reads General Passevant’s Will). Minimal scuffing, tanned on pageedges, tape repair to top corner of title page (next three pages also creased), good. £20.00A re-issue of a collection published by Chapman & Hall, with the order of the stories -- and two of the titles --changed. Contains eight stories: The General’s Will (originally General Passevant’s Will) by Grant ALLEN, TheRomance of Madame de Chanteloup by W. E. NORRIS, For Life or Death (originally A Memorable Swim) byW. Clark RUSSELL, To Please His Wife by Thomas HARDY, The Ghost of the Past by Eliza Lynn LINTON,Rebecca's Remorse by James PAYN, Is It A Man? by J. M. BARRIE, The Golden Rule by Mrs OLIPHANT.

5 ANONYMOUS: Squires and Parsons. A Sketch for the Times (1860)First Edition: Saunders, Otley & Co., 1860. Blindstamped maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spinewith price (10/6) below title; yellow endpapers. Cloth generally sunned to brown, small brownstains on endpapers, owner’s bookplate on front pastedown, good. £35.00The anonymous author produced at least two further novels: The Senior Fellow (1860) & An M. P. InSearch of a Creed (1861).

6 ANSTEY, F. [ie Thomas Anstey GUTHRIE]: Vice Versâ or A Lesson to Fathers (1882)New Edition: Smith, Elder & Co., 1896. Original scarlet cloth, lettered and decorated in black onfront board, in black and gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers. A couple of tiny marks on boards,otherwise a very clean and bright copy: near fine. £30.00Anstey’s best-known novel: a comic fantasy in which a father and his school-boy son exchange souls.

7 ARMSTRONG, Captain F[rancis] C[laudius]: The Sailor Hero; or, The Frigate and theLugger (1861 as The Frigate and the Lugger)Reprint: Ward, Lock & Co., nd (c1875). Illustrated. Original green cloth with blindstampedframing, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; yellow endpapers. Lightly scuffed, front freeendpaper tipped in, good. £30.00

8 BALLANTYNE, R[obert] M[ichael]: The Gorilla Hunters. A Tale of the Wilds of Africa (1861)[Reprint]: T. Nelson & Sons, 1872. Frontispiece, illustrated title page and five plates. Originalgrass green cloth with blindstamped decorative borders, lettered and illustrated on spine in gilt;pale cream endpapers. A couple of tiny marks, front inner joint papers lightly cracked, a littlefoxing, very good. £35.00The sequel to Ballantyne’s The Coral Island (1857). A clean and attractive early copy.

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Three-decker9 BARROWCLIFFE, A. J. [ie Albert Julius MOTT]: Trust for Trust (1859)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859. Three volumes bound as one inpublisher’s remainder binding: crimson cloth with blindstamped borders, lettered in gilt onspine; pale yellow endpapers. Spine a little darkened and worn on tips, endpapers replaced,good. £185.00Wolff [344], rebound. Sadleir did not hold this title but had copies of Mott’s two other novels. Of the last,Normanton (1862) Sadleir writes “Henry Kingsley at his best never wrote anything more thrilling andtuneful...Never before or since have I, so cheaply and unawares, secured a masterpiece”.

10 BECKE, Louis: Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories (1898)First Edition: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. Title page printed in red and black. Original fine-ribbedgreen cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; top edge gilt. Corners lightly rubbed, a little dulled on tophalf of front board, foxing on endpapers, good. £40.00Twenty short stories, largely set in the south Pacific and its islands.

11 BLACKMORE, R[ichard] D[oddridge]: Perlycross A Tale of the Western Hills (1895)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1895. Two volumes bound as one in late C19th brown cloth overbrown marbled boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Board edges lightly rubbed,foxing spots, otherwise good. £25.00Todd [3033/34]. First/only issues; series half-titles bound in. The last of only five titles by Blackmore issuedby Tauchnitz.

12 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)Author’s Edition: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., nd (c1914). Original red cloth withart-nouveau design in black on front board, lettered in gilt. Spine faintly sunned, a few lightmarks, prize plate on front pastedown (1914), otherwise very good. £30.00One of the best-selling novels of the Victorian era.

13 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Henry Dunbar (1864 as Henry Dunbar: The Story of anOutcast)Stereotyped Edition: Spencer Blackett, nd (c1888). Original red cloth, lettered and illustrated inblack on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Spine and edge of front boardsunned, some light splash marks on both boards, spine ends nicked, trace of removed label atfoot of spine, faint signature on front pastedown, inner joint papers lightly cracked, thus a well-used copy, fair/good only. £25.00

14 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Eleanor’s Victory (1863)Stereotyped Edition: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1893. Original red cloth, letteredand decorated in black, with Braddon’s “signature” across front board. Light scuffing, areas ofslight discolouration on top free corners of both boards, otherwise bright, good. £35.00A murder mystery.

15 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Circe (1867)First Thus: Sensation Press (Hastings), 2001. Edited, with an Introduction, by GabrielleMalcolm. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine: fine. Original illustrated dustwrapper:faintly sunned on spine, very good. £20.00Originally published in two volumes, in 1867, under the pseudonym “Babington White”, after which it was notreprinted. Circe is a lurid tale of reckless passion and revenge, with a cast of artists and opera singers.

16 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Robert Ainsleigh (1872)Stereotyped Edition: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891. Original red cloth, letteredand decorated in black, with Braddon’s “signature” across front board. Cloth generally a littledarkened, number “58” hand written on spine, stamp for Nightingale Bros Circulating Library(Newcastle) on front free endpaper, good. £30.00

17 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Weavers and Weft (1877)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, c1888. Late C19th brown cloth, decoratively blocked andlettered in black and gilt. Lightly scuffed, endpapers and page edges lightly tanned,inscription (1888) on title page, very good £50.00Todd [1656b]. Second issue. Half-title bound in. Weavers and Weft was published in England with”other stories”. The Tauchnitz edition contains only the title novel: the publisher issued the short storiesin a separate volume entitled In Great Waters and Other Stories (also 1877). Scarce.

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18 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Just As I Am (1880)Stereotyped Edition: John & Robert Maxwell, nd, c1881. Late C19th brown leather overmaroon marbled boards; raised bands and red leather title label on spine; maroon marbledendpapers; all edges marbled. Edges scuffed, a little foxing, very good. £40.00

19 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Mount Royal (1882)Stereotyped Edition: John & Robert Maxwell, nd [1885]. Original green cloth, blocked inblack and lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. Lightly scuffed, undated signature on front freeendpaper, very good. £40.00A Cornish story, suggested by the legend of Tristan and Isolde. Dated 1-85 at foot of final page.

20 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: The Christmas Hirelings (1894)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1895. Late C19th blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt. Strip ofpaper removed at head of title page, number written on verso of title page, good. £35.00Todd [3032a]. First issue: series half title bound in. Publisher’s catalogue dated July 1895 bound in atend. In addition to the title piece, this edition includes three short stories: One Fatal Moment, TheGhost’s Name & Stapylton’s Plot.

21 BRADDON, M[ary] E[lizabeth]: Beyond These Voices (1910)7d Copyright Novels: Hutchinson & Co., nd (c1914). Frontispiece. Original red cloth,lettered in gilt on spine. A few light marks on boards, very good. £30.00Scarce late Braddon novel: love, murder, guilt and religion.

22 BRAY, Mrs [Anna Eliza]: The Protestant. A Tale of the Reign of Queen Mary (1828)New and Revised Edition: Chapman & Hall, 1884. Frontispiece. Original red cloth, letteredand decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine; black endpapers. A fewlight marks, corners bumped, otherwise very good. £30.00One of a uniform series of twelve volumes of Mrs Bray’s fiction, issued by Chapman in 1884.

23 BRAY, Mrs [Anna Eliza]: The Talba. An Historical Romance (1830 as The Talba orMoor of Portugal)New and Revised Edition: Chapman & Hall, 1884. Frontispiece. Original red cloth, letteredand decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine; black endpapers. A fewlight marks, otherwise very good £3o.00

24 BRAY, Mrs [Anna Eliza]: Trials of the Heart (1839)New and Revised Edition: Chapman & Hall, 1884. Frontispiece. Original red cloth, letteredand decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine; black endpapers. A fewlight marks on lower end of spine, otherwise very good £30.00One of Mrs Bray’s contemporary rather than historical tales.

25 BUCHANAN, Robert: The Master of the Mine (1885)New [ie First One-Volume] Edition, Piccadilly Novels: Chatto & Windus, 1886.Frontispiece. Original royal blue cloth, elaborately blocked in black on front board andspine; lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine; green patterned endpapers. Spine alittle darkened, corners scuffed, some small black marks on front board, good. £25.00Publisher’s catalogue dated October 1895 bound in at end.

26 CAMERON, Mrs H. Lovett [ie Caroline Emily CAMERON]: Deceivers Ever (1878)Century Library: R. E. King, 1900. Original blindstamped green cloth with four smallshields and lettering in gilt on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers.Corners rubbed, a few marks on boards, good. £25.00The author’s name is mistakenly given as Miss H. Lovett Cameron on the title page. This was Cameron’ssecond novel.

27 CLEEVE, Lucas [ie Adelina Georgina Isabella KINGSCOTE]: The Magic of Rome (1902)First Edition, Digby’s Indian and Colonial Library: Digby, Long & Co., 1902. Original redcloth with blindstamped decorative border, lettered in gilt , with series at head of frontboard. Spine faintly sunned, a couple of small spots on cloth, paper faintly tanned on pageedges throughout, good. £30.00The first edition, in the issue for circulation in “the colonies”. Publisher’s catalogue for October 1902bound in at end, including this title in list of books “to be published in the Autumn 1902”

28 COLLINS, Wilkie: The Woman in White (1861)New Impression: Chatto & Windus, 1906. Original green cloth on limp/light boards,lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Lightly rubbed onspine ends, light crease on rear board, foxing on prelims, signature (1910) on frontpastedown, good. £30.00In a smaller format and with different designs from the Piccadilly Novels editions published by Chattountil the mid 1890s.

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29 COLLINS, Wilkie: The Moonstone (1868)New Impression: Chatto & Windus, 1907. Original green cloth on limp/light boards,lettered and decorated in black on front board, in black and gilt on spine. Lightly rubbed onspine ends with small chip on one corner at head, foxing on prelims, good. £30.00See note to item 28.

30 CONWAY, Hugh [ie Frederick FARGUS]: Dark Days (1884)First Edition, Arrowsmith’s Christmas Annual for 1884: J. W. Arrowsmith (Bristol), 1884.Late C19th crimson leather over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine a littledarkened and lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. £30.00Sadleir [611], Wolff [1424]. The second of Hugh Conway’s short thrillers, following the sensationalsuccess of the first, Called Back, the previous year.

31 COX, Sir Edmund C[harles]: John Carruthers, Indian Policeman (1905)First Edition: Cassell & Co., 1905. Illustrated. Original illustrated red cloth, lettered inblack. Watermark on edges of both boards, small chip to one corner, some marks on spine,signature (1986) and tanning on half-title, fair/good. £30.00Twelve crime stories, set in India. Listed in Hubin.

32 CRAIK, Mrs Dinah: Christian’s Mistake (1865)First Edition: Hurst & Blackett, 1865. Late C19th tan leather over crimson cloth coveredboards; raised bands, gilt decorations and black leather title label on spine; maroon marbledendpapers. Extremities scuffed, with a couple of small scrapes on leather, foxing on prelims,very good. £45.00Not in Sadleir or Wolff. Published anonymously as “by the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman”.

33 CROMMELIN, May [ie Maria de la CHEROIS-CROMMELIN]:Phoebe of the White Farm (1906)First Edition: John Long, 1906. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spinedarkened, corners rubbed, a few light marks, light foxing, W. H. Smith’s library label (stamped“Sold”) on front free endpaper, faint number printed on verso of title page, good. £30.00

34 DICKENS, Charles: The Personal History of David Copperfield (1850)First Edition: Bradbury and Evans, 1850. Frontispiece, vignette title page (dated 1850) andforty eight plates by Phiz. Recently rebound in mid-brown leather over marbled boards;raised bands, elaborate gilt decorations and black leather title labels on spines. Pages 17/18damaged on edges and repaired; pages 575/576 has piece torn from foot with loss of wordson 5 lines, foxing on plates (heavy on early ones); good only in fine binding. £120.00Matches first issue points except for p. 132 where “screamed” on line 20, has been corrected to “screwed”.

35 DIEHL, Mrs A[lice] M[angold]: Love’s Crossways (1901)First Edition, Digby’s Indian and Colonial Library: Digby, Long & Co., 1901. Original redcloth with blindstamped decorative border, lettered in gilt, with series at head of frontboard. Spine faintly sunned, a couple of small spots on cloth, very good. £30.00The first edition, in the issue for circulation in “the colonies”. Publisher’s catalogue for October 1901bound in at end.

36 EGERTON, George [ie Mary Chavelita BRIGHT]: Discords (1894)Sixth Edition, Keynotes Series, Volume VI: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1895. Originalblue cloth, framed and lettered in dark blue on front board, lettered in dark blue on spine.Spine a little darkened, light scuffing, undated signature on front free endpaper, otherwisevery good. £30.00The follow-up to Egerton’s first collection of stories -- Keynotes -- which had given its name to thepublisher’s series. A collection of six stories: A Psychological Moment at Three Periods, Her Share, GoneUnder, Wedlock, Virgin Soil & The Regeneration of Two. Publisher’s catalogue dated 1895. This plainbinding is entirely different from the Beardsley-inspired decorated maroon cloth of the first edition.

37 ELIOT, George [ie Marian EVANS]: Felix Holt, the Radical (1866)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1867. Two volumes bound as one in mid-C19th tan leatherover maroon marbled boards; raised bands and black leather title label on spine; maroonmarbled endpapers; all edges marbled. Lightly scuffed, tiny chip to one corner of title label,a little foxing, very good. £30.00Todd [897a/98a]. First issues; series half-titles bound in.

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38 THE ENGLISH HOUSEHOLD MAGAZINEVolume V, 1884.Published by Thomas J. Scott, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.Contains: Mary Gledstone the Pupil Teacher by George RULE. Complete serialisation.The Red House at Hupilton by R. Stanley FREEMAN. Conclusion of serialisation.Minutes of the Supernatural Society by E. S. OAKLEY. Complete serialisation.The Yeovilles of Yeoville Tower by Lizzie A GLEN. Complete serialisation.Numerous short stories by the above and other minor writers. Late C19th beaded purplebinder’s cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine sunned to grey, otherwise a clean, tight copy,good. £30.00An example of a provincial magazine (based in Newcastle), aping a London magazine -- the style andlayout closely ressemble those of Dickens’s Household Words and All the Year Round. Scarce.

39 THE ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINEVolume XII, October 1894 - March 1895Contains: Memoirs of a Minister of France by Stanley J. WEYMAN. First half ofserialisation.Short stories include: Midsummer Madness, The Pessimist of Plato Road & The Poet’sPortmanteau by George GISSING, The Benefit of the Doubt by Violet HUNT, A Cut and aKiss, The Decree of Duke Deodonato, A Man and His Model & A Three-Volume Novel byAnthony HOPE, A Deal on the ‘Change by Robert BARR, A Higher Hand by Percy ANDREAE,The Incomplete Highwayman by C. J. Cutcliffe HYNE, The Hollow Ruby by JulianHAWTHORNE, Jack Smith--Boy by Max PEMBERTON, The King’s Well by Flora AnnieSTEEL, Little Betty’s Kitten Tells Her Story by Frances Hodgson BURNETT, The MiraculousExplorer by Grant ALLEN, Old Versus New by Helen MATHERS, Prison Bars by Margaret L.WOODS, Powder and Paint by Mrs W. K. CLIFFORD, Troy Town Revisited by Q.Original blindstamped blue cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt. A few marks on cloth,inscription (1895) on verso of front free endpaper, scattered foxing, very good. £25.00The magazine was in a period of transition: each individual number is separately paginated.

40 FITZGERALD, G[erald] Beresford: Dear Paul (1902)Digby’s Indian and Colonial Library: Digby, Long & Co., nd [1903] Original red cloth withblindstamped decorative border, lettered in gilt, with series at head of front board. Spinefaintly sunned, paper faintly tanned on page edges throughout, very good. £30.00Publisher’s catalogue for March 1903 bound in at end. Fitzgerald was an Irish writer.

41 FLETCHER, J[oseph] S[mith]: The Three Days’ Terror (1901)First Edition: John Long, 1901. Original slate grey cloth, lettered in red and black and illustratedin black and white on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Light stain on front board, rubbed oncorners and on spine ends, small chip at head of lower hinge, undated signature on frontpastedown, endpapers tanned, otherwise good. £75.00One of Fletcher’s handful of science-fiction titles: terrorists manage to dissolve part of London.

Yellowback42 GIBBON, Charles: The Dead Heart. A Tale of the Bastille (1865)

New Edition: Chatto & Windus, 1889. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Paper worn onhinges, corners rubbed, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), good. £30.00

43 GILBERT, W[illiam] S[chwenk]: Original Plays: First, Second & Third Series (1878 - 1895)New Edition: Chatto & Windus, 1894, 1899, 1899. Three volumes uniformly bound in lightgreen cloth on limp/light boards, decorated with mask of comedy (in bronze), and stage curtainin black; lettered in gilt, bronze and black on spines; green leaf-patterned endpapers. Minimalscuffing, a few light foxing spots, undated signature in first series, very good. £35.00Contains twenty-six plays by Gilbert, including the libretti for eleven of the collaborations by Arthur Sullivan.Chatto added a fourth series in 1911, but in a different binding.

44 GODWIN, William: Fleetwood: or, The New Man of Feeling (1805)Standard Novels, Volume 22: Richard Bentley (late Colburn & Bentley), 1832. Revised,Corrected and Illustrated with a New Preface by the Author. Frontispiece and vignette titleprecede printed title. Mid-C19th dark green leather over maroon marbled boards; ruled andlettered in gilt on spines; maroon leather endpapers. Minimal scuffing, some foxing, otherwisevery good. £35.00

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45 GOOD WORDS for 1871Contains: The Sylvestres by Matilda BETHAM-EDWARDS. Complete serialisation.The High Mills by Katherine SAUNDERS. Complete serialisation.Short stories include: The Devil’s Boots & Toddy’s Legacy by William GILBERT, A YoungIndian Prince by Lady VERNEY,Articles etc include: The Coolie: A Journey to British Guiana to Enquire into hisRights and Wrongs by John Edward JENKINS (author of Ginx’s Baby). In 5 chapters.First Impressions of France and Italy by Nathaniel HAWTHORNE. Completeserialisation.A Semi-Dutch Town by Eliza METEYARD.Late C19th light grey buckram, with black leather title label on spine. Spine a little darkened,some foxing, some small stains on edges of plates, otherwise very good. £20.00

46 GOOD WORDS for 1872Contains: The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony TROLLOPE. Complete serialisation.With twenty-four illustrations by R. A. Fraser.At His Gates by Mrs OLIPHANT. Complete serialisation. With thirty-six illustrations by J.Mahoney.Brother Adam by Holme LEE. Complete serialisation.Late C19th light grey buckram, with black leather title label on spine. Spine a little darkened,some foxing, otherwise very good. £30.00

47 THE GRAND MAGAZINEVolume XXVII, March - June 1916Contains: The Power Fiends by Leslie BERESFORD. Four linked science fiction stories. Thestory of “a great world peril which threatened and how it was averted”.The Lion’s Share by Arnold BENNETT. Continuation of ongoing serialisation.Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine sunned, paper tanned on page edgesthroughout, good. £30.00

Yellowback48 GREENWOOD, James: Handsome Jack and Other Stories (1888)

First Edition: Ward & Downey, 1888. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Spine relaid, butwith loss (1 cm) at top, boards darkened, front inner joint paper lightly cracked, thus onlyfair/good. £25.00Topp [VIII, p. 328]. A collection of thirteen short stories

49 GREVILLE, Lady Violet: The Fighters (1907)First Edition: Chapman & Hall, 1907. Original grey cloth, lettered and framed in black on frontboard, lettered in gilt on spine. A few marks on cloth, armorial bookplate on front pastedown,otherwise very good. £30.00The novel is an historical romance woven around Napoleon Bonaparte and a “Woman of Destiny”.

50 HARDING, Commander Claud, R. N.: Jack Stapleton; or, The Romance of a CoralIsland (1896)First Edition: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1896. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, withblindstamped design of wavy lines on front board; green-and-white patterned endpapers.Minimal scuffing, a few faint marks, very good. £35.00Sadleir [p288] notes that Harding was Ouida’s childhood playmate (and son of her adored godmother) andthat he was the source of much of Sadleir’s Ouida collection. In his own right Harding wrote some 5 or 6nautical novels. Jack Stapleton is set in the West Indies. Scarce.

51 HARDY, Thomas: Life’s Little Ironies A Set of Tales with Some Colloquial SketchesEntitled A Few Crusted Characters (1894)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1894. Late C19th dark tan leather over brown beaded cloth,lettered in gilt on spine; green-and-white patterned endpapers. A little foxing, otherwise verygood. £25.00Todd [2985a]. First issue; series half-title bound in. A collection of Hardy’s shorter fiction.

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52 HATTON, Joseph: Captured by Cannibals. Some Incidents in the Life of HoraceDurand (1888)First Edition: Hodder & Stoughton, 1888. Eight illustrations by W. H. Margetson. Originalillustrated pinky-grey cloth; black endpapers. Front board lightly rubbed, knock to leading edgeof rear board, some foxing spots, good. £25.00In 1883 Hatton produced a three-volume novel called A Modern Ulysses, written largely for his son, FrankHatton. When Frank died, aged 22, exploring in Borneo, his grieving father put the book “aside” for five years,until deciding to re-issue it in a revised and abridged version, aimed at younger readers, and under this moreenticing title of Captured by Cannibals. The full-length adult novel was eventually re-issued in one-volume form in 1892.

53 HAY, Mary Cecil: The Arundel Motto (1871 as The Arrandel Motto)Imperial Library: R. E. King, nd (c1900). Original blindstamped crimson cloth, lettered insilver. Paper lightly tanned throughout, inscriptions (1902) on front pastedown and verso ofcontents page, boards clean and bright, good. £25.00

54 HAY, Mary Cecil: Bid Me Discourse (1883)Imperial Library: R. E. King, nd (c1900). Original blindstamped crimson cloth, lettered insilver. Paper lightly tanned throughout, inscriptions (1902) on front pastedown and verso of titlepage, boards clean and bright, good. £25.00The title piece is a short novel, which is followed by nineteen short stories.

55 HENHAM, Ernest George [writing as John TREVENA]: A Pixy in Petticoats (1906)[Third Edition], The Evergreen Novels: Alston Rivers, 1908. Original green cloth on limp/lightboards, lettered, framed and illustrated in black. Light crease to corner of rear board, undatedsignature on half-title, front free endpaper tipped in, good. £30.00A Pixy in Petticoats is the first of Henham’s Dartmoor novels, with a fast, flippant and ultimately heartlessheroine. Scarce.

56 HOWARD, Edward: The Old Commodore (1837)New Edition: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1863. Bound with:MARRYAT, Captain Frederick: The Dog Fiend; or, Snarleyyow (1837 as Snarleyyow;or, The Dog Fiend)New Edition: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1862.Two volumes bound as one in mid-C19th green leather over marbled boards, raised bands andblack leather title labels on spine; green endpapers; all edges marbled. Extremities scuffed, smallchip to edge of upper title label, boards darkened, good. £35.00The upper label on the spine reads: Marryat’s Novels. The fact that Marryat edited Howard’s first novel,Rattlin the Reefer, seems to have led to a general but erroneous belief that the two authors were one andthe same person.

57 HUME, Fergus: The Best of Her Sex (1894)Imperial Library: R. E. King, nd (c1900). Original blindstamped crimson cloth, lettered insilver. Paper tanned throughout, inscription (1902) on front pastedown, boards clean andbright, good. £20.00

58 HUNGERFORD, Mrs [Margaret]: A Passive Crime and Other Stories (as part of A MaidenAll Forlorn, 1885)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1885. Late C19th black leather over black beaded cloth; greenendpapers. Corners lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. £20.00Todd [2354]. Issue undetermined: bound without series half-title. Mrs Hungerford published a collectionentitled A Maiden All Forlorn and Other Stories in London (3 vols, Ward & Downey, 1885). WhenTauchnitz came to publish the collection, the work was divided into two separate volumes, this second volumegaining a new title. Contains: A Passive Crime, Zara, Moonshine and Marguerites, Nurse Eva, One NewYear’s Eve & Vivienne.

59 HUNGERFORD, Mrs [Margaret]: A Born Coquette (1890)Imperial Library: Richard Edward King, nd (c1900). Original blindstamped crimson cloth,lettered in silver. Spine faintly sunned, paper lightly tanned throughout, inscription (1902) onfront pastedown and again on verso of title page, otherwise a tight copy, good. £20.00The author’s name on the title page is given simply as “Hungerford” (no “Mrs”), and before the novel itself isan Introduction to the Colonial Edition. King bought up stereotyped plates from other publishers; in this caseof a colonial edition rather than a standard “new edition”.

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60 HUTCHINSON’S STORY MAGAZINE[Volume I, July - December 1919]Contains: “She” Meets Allan by H. Rider HAGGARD. First half of serialisation. Illustrated byMaurice Greiffenhagen. [Published in book form as She and Allan in 1921].Bull-Dog Drummond by SAPPER. First half of serialisation.The Spotted Mask by Marjorie BOWEN. First three stories in sequence.Helena Pitstone by Mrs Humphrey WARD. Complete serialisation. [Published in book formas Cousin Philip in 1919]Short stories include: Maru A Dream of the Sea by H. De Vere STACPOOLE, The PrincipalWitness An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness ORCZY, The Downward Smile byBerta RUCK, The Brightener by C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON, Mrs Brook Clavernel by A. E. W.MASON, The Poser by SAPPER, The Sacrifice by Ethel M. DELL, Hilary Maltby and StephenBraxton by Max BEERBOHM, The Guest of the Embassy by William LE QUEUX.Original purple cloth with blindstamped design on front board, lettered in black on spine,decorated green endpapers. Bound up without prelims. Poor quality post-war paper lightlytanned throughout, rear board lightly marked, good. £35.00A cheaply produced house magazine for Hutchinson & Co. Scarce.

61 HYNE, C[harles] J[ohn] Cutcliffe: The Adventures of Captain Kettle (1898), Captain KettleK. C. B. (1903), The Little Red Captain An Early Adventure of Captain Kettle (1902)Cheap Editions, Pearson’s Sixpenny Novels: C. Arthur Pearson, 1903, nd, nd. Three paperbacksbound together (without original wrappers) in maroon binder’s cloth, lettered in gilt on spines.Paper tanned on page edges throughout (especially in third volume), good. £18.00Kettle is a determined, pugnacious sea-going hero (or, perhaps, anti-hero); “larger than life in every way buthis physical stature” (on-line review).

62 INGELOW, Jean: Fated to Be Free (1875)Century Library: R. E. King, 1900. Original blindstamped green cloth with four small shieldsand lettering in gilt on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Hinges scuffed,spine a little dulled, good. £25.00The sequel to Ingelow’s earlier novel Off the Skelligs (1872)

63 JACKSON, Wilfred Scarborough: Nine Points of the Law (1903)First Edition: John Lane, 1903. Original grey cloth, illustrated (a train and a suitcase) in brown;lettered in gilt. Spine a little dulled, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), a little foxing,initials (1910) in pencil on front free endpaper, good. £25.00Crime novel: listed in Hubin. The adventures of Richard Wayzgoose, a bank clerk who is inadvertentlyinvolved with a burglary.

64 JAY, Harriett: Two Men and a Maid (1881)New Edition: F. V. White & Co., 1882. Late C19th rebinding in tan leather over blue marbledboards; raised bands, light green-brown title label on spine; grey-and-white leaf-patternedendpapers. Neat repair to leather on lower hinge, signature (1979) on blank prelim, otherwisegood. £30.00Jay was Irish, and the sister-in-law (and biographer) of Robert Buchanan. Her novels are all very scarce.

Three-decker65 JENKIN, Mrs C. [Henrietta Camilla JENKIN]: Two French Marriages (1868)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Smith, Elder & Co., 1868. Three volumes bound as one inpublisher’s remainder binding: green cloth with blindstamped framing on boards, lettered in gilton spine. Frontispiece in volume I. Endpapers replaced, corners scuffed, very small chip at headof spine, a few light marks, foxing spots, otherwise good. £120.00Two novels: A Psyche of To-day and Madame Beaupré. Not in Wolff or Sadleir. Collates: I - [viii] + 288pp (last 4 pages carry publisher’s advertisements); II - [iv] + 264 pp; III - [iv] + 256 pp. Half-title in volume Ionly.

66 JOCELYN, Mrs Robert [ie Ada Maria JOCELYN]: Drawn Blank (1892)“In One Volume”: F. V. White & Co., nd (c1895). Original green cloth with blindstampeddecorations and black lettering and ruling on front board, gilt lettering on spine; greenpatterned endpapers. Spine faintly sunned, a little speckling on boards, good. £25.00

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67 JOKAI, Maurus [Mor JOKAI]: Timar’s Two Worlds, Authorized Translation [by Mrs HeganKennard] (1888)[Az arany ember, 1872]Reprint: William Blackwood, 1930. Original red cloth, lettered, framed and illustrated in black.Small nicks at head of spine, two ink date stamps on front free endpaper, good. £20.00One of the great Hungarian novelist’s most successful works: a romantic and speculative novel featuring anidyllic Utopia on an island in the Danube.

68 KENNARD, Mrs Edward [ie Mary KENNARD]: Killed in the Open (1886)[First One Volume Edition]: F. V. White & Co., 1887. Original green cloth, lettered andillustrated in black on front board, in gilt on spine; grey-and-white leaf-patterned endpapers.Minimal scuffing, illustrated bookplate on front pastedown, very good. £30.00

69 KENNARD, Mrs Edward [ie Mary KENNARD]: Wedded to Sport (1892)[First One Volume Edition]: F. V. White & Co., 1893. Original green cloth on bevelled boards,blindstamped decorations on front board and spine, lettered in black (front board) and gilt(spine); green-and-white patterned endpapers. Minimal scuffing, armorial bookplate on frontpastedown, very good. £30.00

70 KENNEDY, Theo: Farnorth (1866)Second Edition: Whittaker & Co., Simpkin Marshall & Co. (London), D. Atkinson (Ulverston),1871. With an illustration by the author. Original green cloth on light/limp boards, decorated inblack and lettered in gilt. Endpapers replaced, worn and frayed on spine ends, thus onlyfair/good. £30.00“A complicated family saga involving insanity, mistaken identity, return from the dead and blackmail”(Bibliography of Sensation Fiction). Very scarce. Nothing is known about the author.

Three-decker71 KINGSLEY, Henry: Silcote of Silcotes (1867)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Macmillan, 1867. Three volumes uniformly bound in late C19thbrown leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt titling (“Works of Henry Kingsley”,“Silcote of Silcotes” “Vol I” etc). Free corners rubbed, tiny chip to leather at head of volume I,knock to top edge of boards, a little light foxing, otherwise a good set. £95.00Sadleir [1362], in original cloth. This copy does not have a publisher’s catalogue in volume I.

Three-decker72 KINGSLEY, Henry: Mademoiselle Mathilde. A Novel (1868)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1868. Three volumes uniformly boundin late C19th brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt titling (“Works of HenryKingsley”, “Mademoiselle Mathilde” “Vol I” etc). Free corners rubbed, chip (1 cm by 0.5 cm) athead of spine on Volume II, a little light foxing, otherwise a good set. £95.00Sadleir [1354], in original cloth. This copy does not have a publisher’s advertisements in volume III.

Three-decker73 KINGSLEY, Henry: Stretton. A Novel (1869)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Tinsley Brothers, 1869. Three volumes uniformly bound in lateC19th brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt titling (“Works of HenryKingsley”, “Stretton” “Vol I” etc). Free corners rubbed, triangular chip (1 cm by 1.5 cm) at headof spine and wear to hinges on Volume I, a little light foxing, otherwise a good set. £95.00Sadleir [1363], in original cloth. This copy does not have a publisher’s advertisements in volume III.

Two-decker74 KINGSLEY, Henry: Old Margaret (1871)

First Edition in Two Volumes: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. Two volumes uniformly bound in lateC19th brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt titling (“Works of HenryKingsley”, “Old Margaret” “Vol I” etc). A little rubbing on extremities, a little light foxing,otherwise a good set. £95.00Sadleir [1358], in original cloth. This copy does not have a publisher’s advertisements in volume I.

Two-decker75 KINGSLEY, Henry: Number Seventeen (1875)

First Edition in Two Volumes: Chatto & Windus, 1895. Two volumes uniformly bound in lateC19th brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt titling (“Works of HenryKingsley”, “Number Seventeen” “Vol I” etc). Small chip to top corner of spine on volume I, alittle rubbing on extremities, a little light foxing, otherwise a good set. £95.00

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Three-decker76 KINGSLEY, Henry: The Grange Garden. A Romance (1876)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Chatto & Windus, 1876. Three volumes uniformly bound in lateC19th brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt titling (“Works of HenryKingsley”, “Grange Garden” “Vol I” etc). A little scuffing, tiny chip to leather at head of volumeII, a little light foxing, very good. £95.00Sadleir [1347], in original cloth. This copy does not have a publisher’s catalogue in volume II.

77 KIPLING, Rudyard: Soldier Three: A Collection of Stories Setting Forth CertainPassages in the Lives and Adventures of Privates Terence Mulvaney, StanleyOrtheris, and John Learoyd (1888)Third Indian Edition (later issue): A. H. Wheeler (Allahabad), 1890. Bound with:The Story of the Gadsby’s, A Tale without a Plot (1888)Third Indian Edition: A. H. Wheeler (Allahabad), 1890. Bound with:In Black and White (1888)[Third Indian Edition]: A. H. Wheeler (Allahabad), nd [1890]. Bound with:Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888)Second Indian Edition: A. H. Wheeler (Allahabad), 1889.Four volumes bound as one, without original wrappers, in deep maroon leather over blue clothcovered boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners rubbed, spine sunned, small repair to a coupleof page edges, owner’s signature on each title page, good. £85.00Four Indian editions of Kipling’s early stories, all listing only Wheeler as the publisher on title pages.Soldiers Three: title page is a cancel. This issue not in Stewart. The Story of The Gadsbys: title page is acancel with printer given as “R. S. Press Ld Allahabad”. Stewart only lists the first & second Indian editions,both printed by the Pioneer Press. In Black and White: 96 pp (first has 106 pp), but retains “Hazur” ratherthan “Heavenborn” as opening word. Stewart, p. 51. Wee Willie Winkie: Stewart pp 63 - 4.

78 LAMATHE-LANGON, Étienne-Léon: Private Memoirs of the Court of Louis XVIII, by aLady (1830)First English Edition in Two Volumes: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830. Two volumesuniformly bound in mid-C19th green leather over green marbled board; gilt decorations andblack leather labels on spines; green marbled endpapers. Lightly scuffed, faint stain to bottomedge of first few leaves in volume II: otherwise a good set. £85.00Purports to be an historical memoir, but told by an (imaginary) female narrator. Best regarded as at least anapocryphal work, or fictitious, if not simply a forgery.

79 LEYS, John K[irkwood]: The Lawyer’s Secret (1897)First Edition: Frederick Warne & Co., nd [1897]. Title page is a cancel. Original green cloth withart-nouveau flower designs in black and red, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine.Lightly scuffed, light foxing, very good. £30.00Wolff [4115], who does not comment on cancelled state of title page. Crime novel involving fraud and murder.

80 LINTON, E[liza] Lynn: Grasp Your Nettle (1865)New Edition: Smith, Elder & Co., 1881. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, yellowendpapers. Edges and spine ends rubbed, inscription (1910) on front free endpaper, otherwisevery good. £45.00Linton’s first three novels -- Azeth the Egyptian (1846), Amymone (1848) and Realities (1851) were all(more-or-less) failures. Linton allowed fourteen years to elapse before returning to full-length fiction withGrasp Your Nettle (a fashionably sensational novel with a bigamy theme) in 1865. Topp [v], p 239describes the 1876 yellowback issue and notes the issue of the 1891 “New Edition”.

81 LINTON, E[liza] Lynn: Patricia Kemball (1875)New Edition: Chatto & Windus, nd. C1880. Late C19th brown leather over blue and red marbledboards; raised bands and gilt decorations on spine; brown endpapers. Boards lightly grazed,front inner joint paper cracked (but joint tight), good. £30.00The ironic tale of the struggles of an honest and truthful girl forced to live in a society of hypocrites and liars.

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82 THE LONDON MAGAZINEVolume XVI, February - August 1906Contains: Poison Island by Q. First half of serialisation.Short stories include: The Cock of Bowker's by M. E. BRADDON, The Black Coach of theO'Gradys by Hamilton DRUMMOND, Daddy by Flora Annie STEEL, First Aid & The Sobrietyof Micah Dodge by Walter RAYMOND, Great Uncle Caunter and the Jew by EdenPHILLPOTTS, Jack the Rag by Rosa MULHOLLAND, A Letter of Introduction by KatharineTYNAN, The Man from Johannesburg by L. T. MEADE, The Matchmakers & VacillatingValerie by Edwin PUGH, Mrs Dacre--Heroine by Leonard MERRICK, Sergeant Murphy'sWaterloo by J. S. FLETCHER, The Turtle Doves by H. B. Marriott WATSON, Wingman'sTheory by Rafael SABATINI.Articles include: London's River by Joseph CONRAD.Original green cloth, lettered in black and decorated in gilt. Hinges rubbed, endpapers replaced,good. £25.00

83 MARRYAT, Florence: Love’s Conflict (1865)New Edition: Hutchinson & Co., nd (c1890). Original crimson cloth with raised design ofchrysanthemums on front board, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Spine sunned,corners scuffed, a few foxing spots, good. £40.00Marryat’s first novel: the story ranges from England to India; the heroine contracts a miserable marriage andanother relationship ends in a murder by shotgun.

84 MARRYAT, Florence: Nellie Brooke (1868)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1894. Two volumes in original card wrappers. Dated 1884 on titlepages, but rear covers dated May & September 1894. Minimal wear, spines faintly tanned,otherwise very good. £30.00Todd [1004B/05B]. Second settings. The heroine marries a sinister (indeed murderous) doctor.

85 MARRYAT, Florence: Her World Against a Lie (1878)Imperial Library: Richard Edward King, nd (c1900). Original blindstamped crimson cloth,lettered in silver. Lettering rubbed on front board and spine, small hole on front board, paperlightly tanned throughout, inscription (1908) on front free endpaper, good. £25.00

86 MARRYAT, Florence: Facing the Footlights (1883)[Reprint]: Richard Edward King, nd (c1900). Original red cloth with blindstampedchrysanthemum design on front board, lettered in silver. Spine faintly sunned, paper lightlytanned throughout, otherwise good. £25.00One of Marryat’s theatrical novels. Marryat maintained a career as an actress at the same time as writing hersixty-five or so novels.

87 McCARTHY, Justin: Miss Misanthrope (1878)New Edition: Chatto & Windus, nd (c1887). Late C19th rebinding in dark green leather over redmarbled boards; raised bands with gilt decorations and two red leather title labels on spine; redmarbled endpapers. Paper lightly grazed on boards, a little foxing, very good. £25.00

Three-decker88 MICHON, Jean Hippolyte: Under the Ban. (Le Maudit) A Tale of the Nineteenth Century,

translated from the French of M. L’Abbé *** (1864)[Le Maudit, 1864]First English Edition in Three Volumes: Smith, Elder & Co., 1864. Three volumes bound as onein publisher’s remainder binding: green cloth with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt onspine; pale yellow endpapers. Free corners rubbed, tiny chip to cloth on upper hinge, endpapersreplaced, good. £180.00Very scarce. Not in Wolff. Collates: I - viii + 312 pp; II - iv + 368 pp; III - iv +328 pp.

89 MITFORD, Bertram: A Veldt Vendetta (1903)First Edition: Ward, Lock & Co., 1903. Four plates by Gordon Browne. Original black cloth withpattern of small blank and white squares: illustration on glazed paper inset in centre of frontboard, lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, intermittent foxing, inscription (1905) on front freeendpaper, very good. £30.00

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90 MULHOLLAND, Rosa: The Daughter in Possession. The Story of a Great Temptation. (1915)First Edition: Blackie & Son, 1915. Tinted illustrations by G. Demain Hammond. Original grey-blue cloth, decorated in pale blue and white. Faintly sunned on spine, with slight scuffing headand foot, endpapers browned with inscription (1921) on pastedown, very good. £30.00Mulholland had a long writing career: she started out by contributing to Dickens’s All the Year Round andwrote her last novels during the First World War.

91 OLIPHANT, Mrs Margaret: Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside,Written by Herself (1849)[First One-Volume Edition]: Henry Colburn 1851. Original fine-ribbed, green cloth withblindstamped designs of scrolling branches and leaves on boards, lettered and decorated in gilton spine; yellow endpapers with publisher’s booklists. Spine and boards edges sunned to brown,edges bumped, spine ends nicked, small closed tears to lower hinge, good. £30.00Margaret Oliphant’s first published novel, issued anonymously.

92 OLIPHANT, Mrs [Margaret]: The Curate in Charge (1876)Two Shilling Library: Macmillan & Co., 19o2. Original fine-ribbed green cloth, with title anddecorations blindstamped on front board, blocked in gilt on spine. Small chips to cloth on bothends of spine, a few light marks, light foxing, undated signature on front pastedown, fair/goodonly. £20.00

93 OPPENHEIM, E[dward] Phillips: A Maker of History (1905)First Edition: Ward, Lock & Co., 1905. Illustrated by Fred Pegram. Original red cloth withblindstamped framing, decorated and lettered in gilt. Spine very faintly sunned, a little foxing,very good. £20.00

94 OUIDA [ie Marie Louise DE LA RAMEE]: Friendship (1878)First/Early American Edition: J. B. Lippincott & Co., (Philadelphia), 1878. Original browncloth, decorated in black on front board, blocked in blind on rear board, lettered and decoratedin black and gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed on spine ends, signature (1883) onblank prelim, pages edges lightly tanned throughout, otherwise good. £25.00A very superior American edition. The following three items are in the same binding style. “These novels areuniversally acknowledged to be the most powerful and fascinating works of fiction which the present century,so prolific in light reading, has produced” (Publisher’s blurb).

95 OUIDA [ie Marie Louise DE LA RAMEE]: A Village Commune (1881)First/Early American Edition: J. B. Lippincott & Co., (Philadelphia), 1881. Original mid-browncloth, decorated in black on front board, blocked in blind on rear board, lettered and decoratedin black and gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, signature (1883) on blank prelim,otherwise very good. £30.00See item 94 above

96 OUIDA [ie Marie Louise DE LA RAMEE]: In Maremma (1882)First/Early American Edition: J. B. Lippincott & Co., (Philadelphia), 1882. Original deep purplecloth, decorated in black on front board, blocked in blind on rear board, lettered and decoratedin black and gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, signature (1883) on blank prelim,otherwise very good. £30.00See item 94 above. The novel revolves around the daughter of a notorious bandit, brought up on the malaria-infested coast of Tuscany.

97 OUIDA [ie Marie Louise DE LA RAMEE]: Bimbi. Stories for Children (1882)First/Early American Edition: J. B. Lippincott & Co., (Philadelphia), 1882. Original deep purplecloth, decorated in black on front board, blocked in blind on rear board, lettered and decoratedin black and gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, signature (1883) on blank prelim,otherwise very good. £30.00See item 94 above. Nine short stories.

98 OUIDA [ie Marie Louise DE LA RAMEE]: A Rainy June. A Novelette (1885)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1885. Late C19th purple cloth over green and purple marbledboards; black title label on spine, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, otherwise good. £25.00Todd [A25]. First/only issue; series half-title bound in. One of the odd “additional volumes” published byTauchnitz outside its normal “Collection of British Authors” series. The volume has no series number and isonly 86 pages long. Ouida’s Don Gesualdo was issued in the same way the following year.

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99 OWEN, Ashford [ie Anne Charlotte OGLE]: A Lost Love (1855)“Cheap Edition”, New Edition, Revised: Smith, Elder & Co., 1858. Original orange cloth on lightboards, printed in black; cream endpapers with publisher’s booklists. Boards lightly soiled andprinting quite rubbed, undated signature on half-title, otherwise good. £25.00Issued in the same format (orange cloth) as the “Cheap Edition” of Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre,Villette & Shirley.

100 PARKER, Gilbert: Pierre and His People. Tales of the Far North (1892)First Edition: Methuen & Co., 1892. Original blue-black buckram, lettered in gilt. Lightlyscuffed, a couple of minor marks on boards, corners bumped, light foxing, some looseness ofcloth on board edges, very good. £30.00The first British edition of this Canadian writer's first book, a collection of epic tales of the wilds of Canada.Publisher's catalogue for October 1892 bound in at end.

101 PHILIPS, F[rancis] C[harles] A Question of Colour (1895)First Edition, The Acme Library Volume 3: Archibald Constable, 1895. Original fine-ribbedroyal blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Spine ends rubbed, very good. £35.00An unusually frank short novel dealing with themes of love and race. Scarce.

Three-decker102 PICKERING, Ellen: The Squire (1837)

[Second Edition in Three Volumes]: Richard Bentley, 1838. Three volumes recently rebound indark brown leather over marbled boards; raised bands, black leather title labels and giltdecorations on spine. Lacks half title and 1 cm strip removed from head of title page in VolumeII; undated signatures on prelims, light foxing and browning, otherwise a good set in a finebinding. £85.00Not in Wolff or Sadleir. There is no edition statement in the volumes, but the first edition -- in identical format-- appeared in 1837. Issued anonymously as “by the Author of The Heiress, The Merchant’s Daughteretc”

103 PUGH, Edwin: The Proof of the Pudding (1913)First Edition: Chapman & Hall, 1913, Original green cloth, framed and lettered in dark green onfront board, lettered in gilt on spine. Corners scuffed, a few light marks, foxing on endpapers,otherwise very good. £45.00One of Pugh’s lighter novels featuring “an impostor called Wease and the sinister Captain Stiffidge, who meetsa picturesque end.” (Edwardian Fiction). As with all of Pugh’s books, rather scarce.

104 Q [ie Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH]: The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales (1902)First Edition: Methuen & Co., 1902. Original fine-ribbed red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine lightlysunned, light mark on bottom edge of front board, rear board a little dulled, good. £25.00Collection of short fiction including several supernatural stories (The Miracle of the White Wolf, The HauntedYacht, John and the Ghosts & The Talking Ships). Publisher’s catalogue for August 1902 bound in at end.

105 READE, Charles: Trade Malice: A Personal Narrative and The Wandering Heir AMatter-of-Fact Romance (1875)First Edition: Samuel French, 1875, Original green cloth with blindstamped framing, lettered ingilt; pale yellow endpapers. “The Wandering Heir” on front board and spine “Trade Malice” onrear board. Spine ends bumped, otherwise a near fine copy. £75.00Reade’s story -- partly suggested by the notorious Tichborne inheritance case -- is preceded by the author’saccount of accusations of plagiarism levelled at the novel when it appeared as the Christmas Number of TheGraphic in 1872.

Three-decker106 RIDDELL, Mrs J. H. [ie Charlotte RIDDELL]: A Life’s Assize (1871)

First Edition in Three Volumes: Tinsley Brothers, 1871. Three volumes uniformly rebound(mid C20th) in plain blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spines. Minimal scuffing, light foxing,otherwise a very good set. £325.00Sadleir [2054]; this copy without the publisher’s catalogue in Volume III. Not in Wolff who only held areprint.

107 RUSSELL, W[illiam] Clark: Wrong Side Out (1904)Popular Edition: Chatto & Windus, 1911. Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black.Light splash mark at foot of front board, signature (1912) in pencil of front free endpaper,otherwise good. £25.00

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108 RUSSELL, W[illiam] Clark: The Pretty Polly. A Voyage of Incident (1900)First Edition: Chatto & Windus, 1900. Illustrated. Original blue cloth on bevelled boards,illustrated on front board and spine, lettered within gilt panels; dark blue endpapers; alledges gilt. Front board a little grazed, prize plate (1901) on front pastedown, good. £30.00Wolff [6052]. Publisher’s catalogue for March 1901 at end.

109 RUTHERFORD, Mark [ie William Hale WHITE]: The Novels of Mark RutherfordCollected Edition: T. Fisher Unwin, 1923 - 4. Six volumes uniformly bound in fine-ribbedmaroon cloth, author’s real name (“W. Hale White”) on front boards in gilt, titles andpseudonym on spines; maroon patterned endpapers; top edges gilt. A few minor marks,spines very faintly sunned, a light scuffing, owner’s undated signatures on prelims, verygood. £65.00Comprises The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881) 19th impression, with a frontispiece ofthe author and a memorial introduction by H. W. Massingham; Mark Rutherford's Deliverance(1885) 10th impression; The Revolution in Tanner's Lane (1887) 12th impression; Miriam'sSchooling (1890) 6th impression; Catharine Furze (1893) 11th impression; Clara Hopgood (1896)5th impression. White’s novels are concerned with provincial life, and particularly the author’s own(sometimes unhappy) experiences of the dissenting communities. “His early expulsion from his religiouscommunity is strikingly like that which Silas Marner experiences in Eliot’s 1861 novella.” (VictorianFiction).

110 SAUNDERS, John: Hirell. A Novel (1869)The Cornhill Library of Fiction: Henry S. King & Co., 1873. Frontispiece. Original blue clothlettered and decorated in black on boards, in black and gilt on spine; brown endpapers.Lightly scuffed, a few faint foxing spots, very good. £35.00

111 SCOTT, Sir Walter: Paul’s Letters to His Kinsfolk (1816)First Edition: James Ballantyne for Archibald Constable etc (Edinburgh), 1816. Recentlyrebound in brown leather over pale brown marbled boards; raised bands, gilt thistledecorations and black leather title label on spine; all edges marbled. Owner’s bookplatesrelaid on front endpapers, a little light foxing, very good in fine binding. £60.00Scott’s account of travelling to Waterloo in Belgium (the scene of the final fall and defeat of Napoleon),cast in semi-fictionalised form in letters from “Paul” to his family at home.

112 SMART, Hawley: “The Plunger.” A Turf Tragedy of Five-and-Twenty Years Ago (1891)[First One-Volume Edition]: F. V. White & Co., 1891. Original grass-green cloth,blindstamped decorative panels on front board, lettered and ruled in black on front board,in gilt on spine; black endpapers. Spine a trifle darkened, a little faint speckling on rearboard, name plate on front pastedown, undated signature on prelims, good. £25.00

113 ST. JOHN, Percy B[olingbroke]: Alice Leslie (1861)[Reprint]: Walter Scott, 1886. “With Coloured Illustrations by Jules Deprés”. Original olivebrown cloth on bevelled boards, with framing in black, lettered in gilt on spine; all edgesgilt. Lightly scuffed, a little foxing, very good. £30.00A lively melodrama.

114 STEVENSON, Robert Louis & Fanny Van de Grift STEVENSON:More New Arabian Nights. The Dynamiter (1885)First Edition: Longmans, Green & Co., 1885. Bound with:JEROME, Jerome K[lapka]: On the Stage--And Off (1885)First Edition: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, nd [1885]. Two volumes (both originallyissued as paperbacks) bound together without original wrappers in late C19th beadedmaroon binder’s cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Lettering a little crooked on spine, a fewfoxing spots, good. £40.00

115 STEVENSON, Robert Louis: Island Nights' Entertainments Consisting of The Beach ofFalesa The Bottle Imp The Isle of Voices (1893)First Edition, first issue: Cassell & Co., 1893. Illustrated by Gordon Browne & W. Hatherell.Original grey-blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, green-and white flower patternedendpapers. Cloth a little darkened, lightly scuffed, good. £35.00Price on list facing half-title obviously altered (by publisher) from 5/- to 6/-. Publisher's catalogue dated3-93 at end.

116 THE STORY-TELLERA Magazine of Clever Fiction.Volume III, April - September 1908Contains: The Long Arm of Mannister by E. Phillips OPPENHEIM. Concluding crimestories in sequence“Complete Long Novels” (novelettes) include: The Haunted Bell by Jacques FUTRELLE,A Crown of Straw by Walter E. GROGAN, The Bubble Reputation by Fred M.WHITE.Short stories include: The Case of George Collett & On His Own Body by Richard MARSH,Brown the Shikari by Fox RUSSELL, White Chintzes by Mary E. MANN, The Heir ofGlendower & The Woman in the Blue Veil by Baroness ORCZY, His Highness’ Love Affair &The Four Liqueur Glasses by William LE QUEUX, A Sentence of Death by KatharineTYNAN, Acquitted by Alice & Claude ASKEW, Colour Blindness by L. T. MEADE, TheStolen Chalice of St Joudral by Arthur W. MARCHMONT, The Altar of Sacrifice by Fred M.WHITE, The Scapegoat Cracksman by Headon HILL, The Bargain by Rafael SABATINI, ACurtain Call by Berta RUCK, The Judgment of Paris by Leonard MERRICK, Double Stakesby Nat GOULD, The Prince Who Wandered by Huan MEE, The Dog and the Diamond byH. De Vere STACPOOLE, The Constant Woman by F. Frankfort MOORE, The Baby ThatStole a Town by Tom GALLON, The Millionaire’s Daughter by Charles GARVICE, TheArlington Street Mystery by A. C. FOX-DAVIES.Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow and black. A number of small marks oncloth, spine creased, one page loose and damaged on edges, paper faintly tanned, otherwisegood. £35.00

117 THE STORY-TELLERA Magazine of Clever Fiction.Volume IV, October 1908 - March 1909Contains: The Smiths of Valley View by Keble HOWARD. Start of serialisation.“Complete Long Novels” (novelettes) include: The Usurper by Winifred GRAHAM, TheSandals of Sikar by Mayne LINDSAY, The Avenger by Rafael SABATINI.Short stories include: The Clue in the Signal Cabin & Why the Clock Stopped by Headon HILL,The Death Sentence by K. & Hesketh PRICHARD, A Family Party & Ten Shillings’ Worth byMary E. MANN, The Problem of the Red Rose by Jaques FUTRELLE, The Hazard of the Fog,The Skeleton and John Pye & Thomas and the Monkey-Mask by James BARR, Vanity’s DreamSupper & The Thief’s Daughter by Tom GALLON, Deep Waters by Edward CARPENTER, ADebt of Honour by Bernard CAPES, The Tarbet Necklace by Richard MARSH, The Abduction byRafael SABATINI, A Deep-Sea Story by H. De Vere STACPOOLE, A Neglected Tip by RobertBARR, Jules Vasco the Terrible by Max PEMBERTON, The Master of Court Royal by L. T.MEADE, The Four o’Clock Edition by Fred M. WHITE, The Dream-House & A Splendid Lie byKatharine TYNAN, The Black Boudoir by William LE QUEUX, The Academy Portrait by C. N. &A. M. WILLIAMSON, The Real Thing by Alice & Claude ASKEW, Caught Substitute by W. PettRIDGE, The Baffling of Baffles by M. M. BODKIN, The North Verandah by B. M. CROKER.Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow and black. A few light marks, spine lightlysunned, paper faintly tanned, endpapers replaced, otherwise good. £35.00Stories from all genres including several crime and detective stories, and Bithia M. Croker’s gruesome ghoststory The North Veranda.

118 SUTCLIFFE, Halliwell: Pam the Fiddler A Tale of the Rising Brooks (1910)First Edition: T. Werner Laurie, nd (1910). Title page printed in black and green. Original fine-ribbed dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing and light foxing, otherwise a very goodcopy. £30.00A historical novel, dealing with Yorkshire feuds, but also with the rescue of Mary Queen of Scots from BoltonCastle, and the Rising in the North. Undated publisher’s catalogue at end listing this amongst the ”New SixShilling Novels”.

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119 TAUCHNITZ EDITIONSA selection of volumes from Tauchnitz’s British (and later British and American) Author’s series.The volumes are later reprints (whatever the date on the title page might indicate) or do nothave the identifying series half-titles. All are offered as sound reading copies.

a) AINSWORTH, William Harrison: Windsor Castle An Historical RomanceDated 1844, but actually c1860. Beaded green cloth. Stamps and bookplate of Dr Georg Landauer on prelims.

b) BURNETT, Frances Hodgson: The Secret GardenDated 1912, but bound without half-title. Dark green cloth. A few light marks on boards, signature (in redcrayon) on front free endpaper.

c) DISRAELI, Benjamin: SybilDated 1845, but actually c1896. Green cloth with patterned green endpapers. Light tanning to paper.

d) HUGHES, Thomas: Tom Brown’s Schooldays by an Old BoyDated 1858, but actually c1894. Green cloth over patterned boards; patterned endpapers. Paper rubbed inseveral places on boards.

e) KIPLING, Rudyard: The Second Jungle BookDated 1897, but bound without half-title. Flecked pale blue cloth with maroon leather title label on spine. Alittle rubbed.

f) LONDON, Jack: Burning DaylightDated 1911, but actually c1925. Maroon cloth over patterned boards. A little rubbing, bookplate on frontpastedown.

g) NORRIS, W[illiam] E[dward]: Miss ShaftoDated 1889, but bound without half-titles. Two volumes bound as one in blue cloth, owner’s name(“Wickham”) in gilt on front board, patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed.

h) WELLS, H[erbert] G[eorge]: Men Like GodsDated 1924, but actually c1925 reprint. Green cloth with black leather title label on spine. Armorial bookplateon front pastedown and Venetian bookseller’s stamp on half-title.

i) WILDE, Oscar: De Profundis and the Ballad of Reading GaolDated 1908, but bound without half-title. Light orange cloth, green endpapers. Darkened on spine.

j) WILDE, Oscar: A House of PomegranatesDated 1909, but bound without half-title. Light orange cloth, green endpapers. Darkened on spine.

Per title: £8.00

120 TROLLOPE, Anthony: An Eye for an Eye (1879)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1879. Late C19th gold-coloured cloth over marble boards; redleather title label on spine. A few marks on boards, endpapers tanned, very good. £30.00Todd [1805a]. First issue: series half-title bound in. A sensational story of seduction, revenge and madness.

121 TROLLOPE, Anthony: The Fixed Period (1882)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, “1882” (actually c1905). Publisher’s own maroon cloth bindingwith oval blindstamped design on front board, decorated in brown and black and lettered in gilton spine. Tiny chip at head of spine, name stamp on front free endpaper, good. £35.00Todd [2055b]. Second issue, half-title present. One of Trollope’s most difficult titles: an odd anduncharacteristic science-fiction fantasy about state-controlled euthanasia.

122 TROLLOPE, Anthony: An Old Man’s Love (1884)Copyright Edition: Tauchnitz, 1884. Late C19th maroon leather over red cloth covered boards;raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Lightly scuffed, otherwise very good. £30.00Todd [2238]. First/only issue: series half-title bound in. The last of Trollope’s novels to be published byTauchnitz.

123 TROLLOPE, Frances:The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, The Factory Boy (1839 - 40)First One-Volume Edition: Henry Colburn, 1840. Twenty-four plates by Hervieu, Buss &Onwhyn. Mid C19th binding in black leather over brown paper-covered boards; raised bandsand gilt decorations on spine. Corners rubbed, gilt on spine dulled, plates have tanning andfoxing spots, good. £50.00No advertisement leaves, publisher's catalogues, or inserted list of plates. Probably bound from parts. Theplate(s) frequently lifted to use as a frontispiece are in their sequential place in the text.

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124 TWAIN, Mark [ie Samuel Langhorne CLEMENS]: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc bythe Sieur Louis de Conte (Her Page and Secretary), Freely Translated Out of theAncient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscriptin the National Archives of France by Jean François Alden. Edited by Mark Twain(1896)First English Edition: Chatto & Windus, 1896. Twelve plates by F. V. Du Mond. Original bluecloth with raised design of Joan over blindstamped design of repeated fleurs-de-lys, lettered anddecorated in gilt; green leaf-patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, small nicks to cloth on spineends, rear inner joint paper chipped, signature (1896) on half-title, small Blackwell’s label onfront pastedown, small purple stamp (“Bibl. B. M. De Angelis Princethorpe”), some foxing,otherwise good. £45.00Publisher’s catalogue dated March 1896 bound in at end. Despite the lengthy descriptive title suggesting thatthis is a translation of a real memoir, it is simply a novel -- Twain’s last.

125 VARIOUS AUTHORS: The Story GardenGroombridge & Sons, nd (c1880). Frontispiece in colour and numerous other illustrations intext. Original brown cloth on bevelled boards; gilt panel on front board lettered in green, blackdecorative borders, pale yellow endpapers. Spine a little darkened with gilt dulled, small nicks tospine ends, chip and split to cloth on top left corner of spine, inscription (1880?) on front freeendpaper, good only. £25.00One of various “collections” of The Magnet Stories, each originally issued individually and unpaginated.This volume contains twelve: The Grateful Indian by W. H. G. KINGSTON, Fanny’s Fancies by Mrs S. C.HALL, Purples and Blues by Emily TAYLOR, The Poor Cousin by Frances BROWNE, The Christmas Tree byH. J. WOOD, The Planter’s Son by W. Heard HILLYARD, The Captive’s Daughter by W. Heard HILLYARD,The Pedlar’s Hoard by Mark LEMON, My Longest Walk by Mrs Russell GRAY, When We Were Young by MrsBRASSEY, Lottie’s Half-Sovereign by Mrs Russell GRAY & Hereward the Brave by Julia CORNER.

126 VARIOUS AUTHORS: A Century of French Romance, Edited by Edmund Gosse, With PortraitNotes by Octave Uzanne (1902)First Edition, in Twelve Volumes: William Heinemann, 1902.BALZAC, Honoré de: The Two Young BridesWith a Critical Introduction by Henry JamesDAUDET, Alphonse: The NabobWith a Critical Introduction by Professor TrentDUMAS, Alexandre, the Elder: The Black TulipWith a Critical Introduction by Richard GarnettDUMAS, Alexandre, the Younger: The Lady of the CamelliasWith a Critical Introduction by Edmund Gosse.FEUILLET, Octave: The Romance of a Poor Young ManWith a Critical Introduction by Henry HarlandFLAUBERT, Gustave: Madame BovaryWith a Critical Introduction by Henry JamesGONCOURT, Edmond & Jules de: Renée MauperinWith a Critical Introduction by James Fitzmaurice-KellyHUGO, Victor: Notre-Dame de ParisWith a Critical Introduction by Andrew LangMAUPASSANT, Guy de: Pierre and JeanWith a Critical Introduction by the Earl of Crewe.MERIMEE, Prosper: Colomba & CarmenWith a Critical Introduction by Arthur SymonsSAND, George: MaupratWith a Critical Introduction by John Oliver HobbesSTENDHAL: The Chartreuse of ParmaWith a Critical Introduction by Maurice HewlettIllustrated. Twelve volumes in original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edges gilt.Light scuffing, light foxing, some small spots on boards, some volumes have light cracking topaper on inner joints (all joints tight), a couple of pages have short lateral tears (without loss);otherwise a good set. £120.00

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127 WALLACE, Edgar: Grey Timothy (1913)First Edition: Ward, Lock & Co., 1913. Frontispiece. Original blindstamped black cloth, letteredin gilt, with rectangular illustration on glazed paper inset on front board. Corners lightly scuffed,a few foxing spots, very good/near fine. £40.00Crime novel with sporting theme. Grey Timothy is a horse.

Two-decker, Signed Limited Edition128 WARD, Mrs Humphry [ie Mary Augusta WARD]: Fenwick’s Career (1906)

First Edition in Two Volumes, Limited to 250 copies, No 169, Signed by the Author: Smith,Elder & Co., 1906. Two volumes in original card wrappers, printed in red on front with blankspines, with original card matching box. Corners turned, light soiling on wrappers, fair/good.Box in poor condition; splitting along edges, previously hand-sewn repairs coming apart. Withall faults £45.00Uncommon, especially with the original box.

Yellowback129 WARDEN, Florence [ie Florence PRICE]: A Woman’s Face (1888)

“In One Volume”: F. V. White & Co., 1890. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. A littlegrazing on bottom of front board, paper rubbed on hinges, small nicks on spine ends, inner edgeof front endpapers glued together, signature (1890) on prelims, good/very good. £45.00Topp [VIII, p 24]. Crime/mystery novel: listed in Hubin.

Yellowback130 WARDEN, Florence [ie Florence PRICE]: A Witch of the Hills (1888)

Third Edition: F. V. White & Co., 1893. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Spine quiterubbed with loss on paper along hinges, board edges rubbed, lacks front free endpaper,signature on half-title, thus only fair/good. £25.00

131 WEBB-PEPLOE, Annie: Oliver Wyndham: A Tale of the Great Plague (1867)Sixth Edition Completing Thirteenth Thousand: Hodder & Stoughton, 1878. Original greencloth, lettered and illustrated in black and gilt. Lightly scuffed, a little foxing and spotting, giftinscription (1890) on front free endpaper, very good. £25.00Published as “by the author of Naomi”

132 WINTER, John Strange [ie Henrietta STANNARD]: A Matter of Sentiment (1902)First Edition: F. V. White & Co., 1902. Original two-tone cloth; upper half of boards navy blue,lettered and decorated in gilt; lower half of boards red, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed, a fewlight marks, a little faint foxing, very good. £25.00

Two-decker133 YONGE, Charlotte M[ary]: Hopes and Fears; or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster (1860)

First Edition in Two Volumes: John W. Parker, 1860. Two volumes uniformly rebound in mid-C19th brown leather over marbled boards; dark green title labels on spines; grey-greenendpapers. Corners scuffed, chip/short split to leather at head of upper hinge on volume II,otherwise a clean, tight set: good. £85.00Not in Wolff. Collates: I - [ii] + 456 pp; II - [ii] + 414 pp. No half-titles.

134 YONGE, Charlotte Mary: Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For (1900)First Edition: Macmillan & Co., 1900. Original fine-ribbed cloth with blindstamped art-nouveaudesign on left side of front board, lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, label of Warren’s CirculatingLibrary (Royston) on front board, undated inscription on front free endpaper, light foxing,otherwise good. £25.00

NEW BIBLIOGRAPHY135 HARTE, Chris: The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes 1895 - 1923. A History,

Index and Bibliography (2021)Limited Edition of 100 copies: Sports History Publishing, 2021.Paperback, 406 pp. £19.95An extensive survey of this magazine, with a detailed bibliography of contributions and contributors. Themagazine concentrated on sport, but also carried sport-related fiction (for example Some Experiences ofan Irish R. M. by Somerville & Ross).

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