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Emma : A Novel. Standard Novels No. XXV

By: Austen, Jane

Price: £1,500.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley 1833: 1833

Seller ID: 62860

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First illustrated edition. First one volume edition, but also part of the collected edition. 435 pp. Original publisher's cloth boards with black paper title labels to spine. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Some chipping to title labels. Early dent to edge of front board. Slight wear to corners. Inner hinges renewed. Internally clean. Extra-illustrated title-page with engraved vignette. Frontis engraving. Binding firm.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

By: DICKENS, Charles

Price: £225.00

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall 1870: 1870

Seller ID: 48421

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

Engraved portrait frontis. & title + viii., 190 pp Bound from the parts - stab marks visible. In a recent brown calf, with a green morocco title label and marbled boards. Some scattered foxing, but otherwise a good clean copy. 22 cm tall
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Pictures from Italy

By: DICKENS, Charles

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury & Evans 1846: 1846

Seller ID: 48554

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Very Good

270 pp. b/w illustrations by Samuel Palmer. Blue publisher's cloth with blind decoration on the spine and boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Book in near fine condition with some marks, binding slightly skewed and corners a little bent. Previous owner's signature to the front past-down. Lacks the free endpapers. First edition. 18 cm tall
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Sketches By Boz Illustrations of Everyday Life and Everyday People

By: DICKENS, Charles

Price: £650.00

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall 1839: 1839

Seller ID: 48898

Binding: Half Leather

Condition: Good

526 pp, illustrated with 40 b/w plates first 1 volume edition heavy foxing in places and front board has worn badly name on f.e.p.
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Dombey and Son

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury and Evans 1848: 1848

Seller ID: 51629

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good

First edition. xvi, 624 pp. Bound in tan half morocco over marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine with full gilt panels and red leather title label. Bound by Webb of Liverpool. Engraved frontis and engraved title page vignette. With 38 full-page illustrations by Phiz. Heavy foxing to frontis & engraved title, generally light foxing to other plates. Scattered foxing to leaves. Binding firm. No half title, and an 8 line errata leaf. Bound from the parts, with stab marks throughout. All of the 1st issue text points. Captain Cuttle's hook is on the left; no quotation marks around "the Party...
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Dombey and Son

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: £275.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury and Evans 1848: 1848

Seller ID: 52016

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

First editon, first issue, with first issue points present. xvi, 624 pp. Recently rebacked in tan half morocco over original marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine with gilt ruling & lettering. Boards rubbed. Marbled endpapers. Early armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Engraved frontis and engraved title page vignette. With 38 full-page illustrations by Phiz. Heavy foxing to frontis & engraved title and to other plates. Scattered foxing to leaves. Tears to pages repaired. Binding firm. A VG copy.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: £850.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury & Evans 1850: 1850

Seller ID: 52178

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Bound from the parts with the original blue wrap covers tipped-in at front and rear. xv, 624 pp. Quarter maroon leather over blue paper-covered boards. Remains of dark blue hand-lettered title label to spine. Spine and boards lightly worn. Hinges split but binding firm. Edges untrimmed. Matching blue paper endpapers. Early bookplate to front pastedown. Dated title page. Errata leaf at (xv). 'Screamed' instead of 'screwed' on p. 132. Original stab marks mostly visible at gutter. Full-page illustrations by H. K. Browne. Scattered light foxing. Scarce first issue. A unique copy. Good to VG condit...
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Dombey and Son

By: Dickens, Charles

Price: £300.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury and Evans 1848: 1848

Seller ID: 56608

Binding: Half Calf

Condition: Very Good

First editon, first issue, with first issue points present. xvi, 624 pp. Recently bound in light brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt ruling & dark brown leather title label. New endpapers. Engraved frontis and engraved title page vignette. With 38 full-page illustrations by Phiz. Some foxing & browning to plates. Binding firm. A VG copy.
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Bleak House

By: DICKENS, Charles

Price: £450.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury and Evans 1853: 1853

Seller ID: 56807

Binding: 1/4 Calf

Condition: Very Good

First edition, first issue. With all three typographical points present. xiv, 624 pp. Recent quarter red/brown calf over marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine with maroon leather title label. New endpapers. Extra engraved title page with vignette. Lacks half-title. With 39 plates by H. K. Browne. Plates complete. Staining & foxing to most plates as usual. Binding firm and solid. A VG copy.
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The Mill on the Floss. In three volumes

By: Eliot, George

Price: £1,500.00

Publisher: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons 1860: 1860

Seller ID: 57003

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Good

First edition, first issue. vi, 361; vi, 319; vi, 313, 16 pp. Original blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Slight wear to spine ends with short tear. Endpapers clean. Sprung sections to each volume. Hinges to vol. 3 split. Vol. two with text-block loose in case. Needs sprung sections returning. Edmonds & Remnants binder's ticket to rear pastedown of volume one. 16-page adverts to rear of volume three. Text clean.
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Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

By: Henty, G. A.

Price: £500.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus 1898: 1898

Seller ID: 49620

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

400, 32 pp. Decorated salmon- pink cloth with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly darkened with very slight wear to spine ends. Tilt to spine. Patterned endpapers. Title page in red & black. No names or other inscriptions. Scarce adult novel by Henty, originally intended as a three-decker. Early 32 page publisher's catalogue at rear, dated Jan. 1898 (the book wasn't published until March). A Very Good copy of this very scarce title.
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua : Being a Reply to a Pamphlet entitled "What, then, Does Dr. Newman Mean?"

By: Newman, John Henry

Price: £250.00

Publisher: London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green 1864: 1864

Seller ID: 61591

Binding: Publisher's Cloth

Condition: Good

First edition in book form. iv, 430, 127 pp. Original publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine rebacked with original panel laid down. Spine cloth repaired. Boards partially faded and crack to front board. Slight spotting to prelims. Internally clean. Binding firm. Newman's rebuttal of Charles Kingsley's criticism of his conversion to Catholicism. Autobiographical and theological work originally published as a series of pamphlets in the same year.
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The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

By: Potter, Beatrix

Price: £1,250.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne and Co. 1903: 1903

Seller ID: 53326

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

85 pp. Patterned-floral cloth with cream-coloured title & author cloth onlays to front board. The uncommon deluxe edition. Spine slightly faded with minor rubbing to extremities. Hinges repaired. Early ink inscription to verso of half-title. Faint water stain to last leaf & endpapers. Colour pictorial endpapers. Full-page colour illustrations by the author.
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The Mysterious Island Trilogy: Dropped From the Clouds; Abandoned; The Secret of the Island. Three volumes

By: Verne, Jules

Price: £2,250.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1875: 1875

Seller ID: 48559

Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First editions. In three volumes complete. viii, 310, 40; viii, 304; viii, 299, iii, 40 pp. Publisher's original elaborately gilt & black decorated cloth. 'Dropped From the Clouds' in green cloth, the others in burgundy. All edges gilt. Bevelled boards. Slight wear to corners and spine ends. Slight foxing to prelims. Publisher's lists at rear of 2 volumes. Numerous illustrations. Plates especially crisp and bright. All volumes are first editions. Uncommon. A Very Good set.
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The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

By: Wells, H. G.

Price: £600.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. 1895: 1895

Seller ID: 52881

Binding: Gilt Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

275 pp. Original blue cloth with spine and front cover lettered & decorated in gilt. Slight rubbing to spine edges. Bookplate to front pastedown. Endpapers slightly darkened. Edges untrimmed. VG
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