Category: Literature

Complete in one volume. xxxii, 714, viii pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt panels & lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers. Boards rubbed. Wear to spine ends & corners. Rear free endpaper clipped. Scattered spotting & dampstaining (also affecting some plates). With eight fine portraits engraved by Finden. Binding firm.
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Tiger Slayer - a tale of the Indian Desert

By: AIMARD, Gustave [ GLOUX, Olivier ]

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, Ward and Lock 1862: 1862

Seller ID: 3512

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

16.4 cm tall. [xii.] 1/2 title, engraved frontis. and title page, title, preface, contents, + 339 pp, and 5pp. of adverts. 7 full page wood engraved plates (8 including frontis.). Spotting. Bound in a C19th 1/2 calf. Very good. Story set in North America.
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Jack Sheppard

By: Ainsworth, W. Harrison

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, [Bentley's Miscellany] 1839: 1839

Seller ID: 51630

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Original issues from Bentley's Miscellany. Bound in dark maroon full calf. Five raised bands to spine with gilt title lettering. Top edge gilt. Leather turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Spine slightly faded to brown. A few minor marks to boards. Full page engraved illustrations by George Cruikshank. Some plates slightly darkened at edges. Bound from the original parts published during 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany. A very fresh and attractive Near Fine copy.
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Makamat or Rhetorical Anecdotes of al Hariri of Basra

By: Al Hariri of Basra, Theodore Preston (trans)

Price: £125.00

Publisher: London, James Madden 1850: 1850

Seller ID: 46296

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Good

xvi, 504,[i] pp., Green blindstamped publisher's cloth. Fading and minor discolouration to cloth with some chipping to head and foot of spine. Edges tanned.
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Non-Stop

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber [c. 1965]: 1965

Seller ID: 63196

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Later reprint. 252 pp. Cloth in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edgeworn. Internally clean.
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The Woman Who Did

By: Allen, Grant

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, John Lane 1895: 1895

Seller ID: 44663

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Good

241, 10, 16 pp. Decorated green cloth. Rear board cracked. With a cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Publisher's lists at rear. Internally VG.
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A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath

By: Allen, James Lane

Price: £150.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co, Ltd 1901: 1901

Seller ID: 46174

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

xxxii, 286 pp. Dark green full morocco. Spine gilt with five raised bands. Attractive gilt floral design to front board. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. All edges gilt. Spine slightly faded but gilt bright. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
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The Army of the Shadows and Other Stories

By: Ambler, Eric

Price: £50.00

Publisher: Helsinki, Eurographica 1986: 1986

Seller ID: 62742

ISBN: 9519371168

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

This is copy no. 338 of an edition limited to 350 copies signed by the author. 75 pp. Original stiff card wrappers in printed brown jacket. Signed by Eric Ambler on the title-page. Small nick to jacket at rear panel. Very clean copy. 9519371168
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The Old Devils

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson 1986: 1986

Seller ID: 62790

ISBN: 0091637902

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

294 pp. Publisher's boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket price-clipped with slight fading to spine. Very clean and fresh copy. No ownership names. Booker Prize winner, with Booker shortlist bookmark laid in. 9780091637903
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The Folks That Live on the Hill

By: Amis, Kingsley

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson 1990: 1990

Seller ID: 62791

ISBN: 0091741378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by the author on the title-page. 246 pp. Publisher's boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Slight fading to jacket spine. Very clean and fresh copy. No ownership names. 9780091741372
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Secret : A Novel

By: Amrine, Michael

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1951: 1951

Seller ID: 55429

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

325 pp. Publisher's cloth in dust wrapper. Dj edgeworn with short tears. Internally clean. A Cold War/Atomic Bomb novel of the 1950's. Copac records only six copies. Uncommon.
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Tom Brown's School Days

By: An Old Boy [Thomas Hughes]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd. 1896: 1896

Seller ID: 61125

Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition thus, illustrated by Edmund J. Sullivan. xxiii, 312 pp. Publisher's dark green gilt-decorated cloth. All edges gilt. A few areas of staining to boards. Foxing throughout. Full-page and in-text illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan.
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Diderot's Dream

By: Anderson, Wilda C.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Baltimore, MD, U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University Press 1987: 1987

Seller ID: 48661

ISBN: 0801839769

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

x., 259 pp. 0801839769
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The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Pringle Family

By: Anon [John Galt]

Price: £75.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for William Blackwood 1821: 1821

Seller ID: 53369

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Very Good

(iv), 303 pp. Contemporary brown half morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Boards rubbed and spine marked. Scattered light foxing. Binding firm.
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School Life in Paris : How We Lost Our Maidenhead. Social Studies of the Century Series

By: Anonymous

Price: £400.00

Publisher: N.p., Privately printed for the Author and His Friends 1923: 1923

Seller ID: 61936

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

Limited to 200 copies. 154 pp. Original printed paper wraps. In recent cloth solander box with photocopy of original cover pasted onto front. Covers worn & spotted with some loss to spine covering. Internally clean. Lesbian erotica originally printed in 1897. Scarce.
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The Smuggler's Son : Or Sherwood Quarry. A Tale

By: Anonymous [Cole, Benjamin Thomas Holcott]

Price: £60.00

Publisher: London, John Harris N.d. [1828]: 1828

Seller ID: 62482

Binding: 1/4 Morocco

Condition: Very Good

[4], 146, 6 pp. Contemporary quarter maroon straight-grained morocco over marbled boards. Gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to corners. Frontis engraving. Spotting to frontis. Internally clean. Six-page publisher's list at rear. A story for children. Binding firm.
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Ring Round the Moon a Charade with Music

By: Anouilh, Jean

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd 1950: 1950

Seller ID: 39824

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

104 pp., Very nice Red half morocco binding with red boards and gilt ornamented panels on spine by Hatchards. Bookplate on front pastedown, Prev owner's initials monogrammed on corner of front board. Minor wear to edges of boards. Small gouge to leather on rear board
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Salted Almonds

By: Anstey, F.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1906: 1906

Seller ID: 55669

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vii, 312 pp. Publisher's pale green cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Slight lean to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Scattered foxing. Short stores, including some fantasy.
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