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The Flight To France. Or The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Days of Dumoriez.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington Limted, 1888. [Historical fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 231 [1]; Imprint. With engraved plates throughout, including a frontispiece, by George Roux. Bound in the publisher's original pale blue-grey blocked in gilt and colours, all edges gilt, and coated yellow..... More
The Will of an Eccentric.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1900. [Adventure] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 408. With 59 wood engraved plates by Roux, and the folding plate of 'The Noble Game of the United States of America' on india paper to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles..... More
A Family Without a Name.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1891 [1890]. [Historical Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 172; 134 [34]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1890. With 79 of the 80 wood engraved plates by Tiret-Bognet, including a frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles and black, white and..... More
A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Stories.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1925]. [Adventure and Romance] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.176; 96 [32]. With a black and white half-tone illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles and decoration to spine and upper. With..... More
Adrift in The Pacific.
London: Readers Library, n.d. [1927]. Reader's Library edition, by special arrangement with Sampson Low. Publisher's gilt-embossed cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Some expected toning to cheap paper, fragile jacket with a few chips and tears, notably to foot of spine with partial loss of imprint. Nonetheless a remarkable survival of a...... More
The Archipelago On Fire.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1920s]. [Historical Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a cheap edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.vi; 198 [2]. With a colour illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles, and red, green, blue and pink decoration to spine and upper..... More
The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. [Science fiction] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm) pp.vii; 292. Illustrated with twenty-four full page plates. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine and colour blocking to the front cover. Ink inscription (Christmas 1913) to flyleaf, minor spotting, top corner bumped, cloth mostly fresh..... More
The Chase of the Golden Meteor.
London: Grant Richards, 1909. [Science fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vii; 292. Navy blue cloth with white titles to spine, gilt titles and colour blocking to upper board. Illustrated with twenty-four halftone plates, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Ex-libris stamp front-paste down, spotting throughout, toning and spotting to..... More
The Clipper of the Clouds.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., [n.d.] c.1914. [Adventure fiction] VINTAGE ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.176 [16]. Advertisements to rear. With numerous coloured halftone illustrations. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, titles and designs in brown and black to upper, titles and designs in gilt to spine. Green pictorial endpapers..... More
Hector Servadac, Or the Career of a Comet.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. Fantasy adventure. 'Uniform Edition'. Octavo, pp.370. Illustrated. Bound in publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in gilt and black. Nominal edgewear, spine ends chipped, some age-related toning to spine,gift note in ink to pastedown. Very good. More
Michael Strogoff. The Courier of the Czar [also includes 'The Mutineers'].
New York: Scribners, 1895. [Classic adventure] 'Uniform Edition'. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.377. With 89 engraved illustrations, including a frontispiece. Bound in publisher's pictorial red cloth, blocked in gilt and black. Nominal edgewear, some sunning to spine, and hinges split. Lightly toned throughout. Small tear to page margin pp.17-33. Very..... More
Round the World in Eighty Days.
London: Julian Wylie, n.d. Sixpenny novel paperback format. 8vo. Publisher's lavishly illustrated card wraps. Minor edgewear and some soiling to white spine and rear panel. Strong and bright with no loss, a very good copy. More
Texar the Southerner: a Tale of the American Civil War.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, no date [circa 1920s]. [Historical Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a cheap edition with the rare jacket. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 142 [2]. With an illustrated frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles, and orange and green decoration to spine and upper. With the illustrated..... More
A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Stories.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., no date [circa 1940s]. [Adventure and Romance] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition with jacket. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.176; 96. With a black and white half-tone illustrated frontispiece and other vignette illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth titled in black, colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 4s. Contents..... More
Dr. Ox, and Other Stories. [A Drama in the Air; A Drama in Mexico, the First Ships of the Mexican Navy; Master Zacharius, or the Clockmaker who lost his Soul; and Doctor Ox].
London: Arco Publications, 1964. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and white dust-jacket priced at 12/6, and re-priced to £1.25 with a sticker. Original price to back cover crossed out with a black marker. Light..... More
Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1980. [Artist Biography] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), pp.192. Heavily illustrated with black and white in-text illustrations, as well as four double-sided colour plates. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Orange endpapers. With the Ardizzone-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $22.50. Some bumping..... More
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