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The Wrecker.
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 427 [12]. Publisher's catalogue dated May 1892. With 12 half-tone illustrated plates by Hole and Metcalf, including a frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore-edge untrimmed. Repair to split lower hinge. Spotting and..... More
The Wrong Box.
London: Cassell and Company, 1889. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, noted in several important crime checklists. Crown octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[iv]; 283; [1], blank; [16], catalogue (dated January 1889). Publisher's red cloth, titled in black and gilt, 'swan' patterned endpapers. Internally clean, armorial bookplate and signature of Wyville Thomson, spine..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 371; [18], catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, floral-patterned pale green endpapers. Ads partially unopened, some foxing within, pencil signature of respected Brighton architect Gilbert Murray Simpson (1869-1954), cloth with..... More
Catriona. A Sequel to 'Kidnapped' Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad.
London: Cassell and Company, 1893. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [19]. Catalogue dated 8/93. Publisher's dark blue cloth, with gilt titles to spine, and floral-patterned endpapers. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Careful repairs to split hinges. Light to moderate spotting throughout..... More
The Master of Ballantrae. A Winter's Tale.
London: Cassell and Company, 1889. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 332 [20]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and black to upper board, with an illustration. Endpapers with printed floral decoration. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Quite roughly cut in places..... More
The Works of R.L. Stevenson. Including the famous titles: Treasure Island, New Arabian Nights, The Black Arrow, Kidnapped, The Dynamiters, The Master of Ballantrae, Travels with a Donkey, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, etc.
Boston, MA: Charles E. Lauriat, by arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. Ten volumes, octavo (22 x 15 x 50 cm). Frontispiece illustrations with tissue guards, title-pages printed in red and black. Bound for Lauriat in contemporary dark green half morocco with gilt panelled..... More
![Item #51299 The Dynamiter [More New Arabian Nights] Containing; Prologue of the Cigar Divan,...](/pictures/thumb/51299.jpg?v=1584533218)
The Dynamiter [More New Arabian Nights] Containing; Prologue of the Cigar Divan, Challoner's adventure: The Squire of Dames, Story of the Destroying Angel, The Squire of Dames (Concluded), Somerset's adventure: The Superfluous Mansion, Narrative of The Spirited Old Lady, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Zero's Tale of The Explosive Bomb, The Superfluous Mansion (Continued), Desborough's adventure: The Brown Box, Story of The Fair Cuban, The Brown Box (Concluded), The Superfluous Mansion (Concluded), Epilogue of the Cigar Divan.
London: Longmans Green and Co., 1885. [Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.207. In contemporary full limp leather with gilt titles and rules to spine, covers bordered in blind, plain blue endpapers, edges speckled red. Ownership Harry Hargreave Fawcett (ink signature and two stamps), trivial handling. A fine..... More
Island Nights' Entertainments. Consisting of The Beach of Falesa, The Bottle Imp, The Isle of Voices.
London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to..... More
![Item #58996 Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's...](/pictures/thumb/58996.jpg?v=1612201522)
Round the Fire Stories [and] The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings [and] Miss Cayley's Adventures [and] Glimpses of Nature [and] Safety Match [and] Smoked Skipper [and] Clochette [and] The Gray Parrot [and] The Madness of Mr. Lister [and] Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation [and] The Stolen Body [and] Underground Passages and Trap-Doors [and] Where the Air Quivered [in] The Strand Magazine. Volumes 15 and 16, complete.
London: George Newnes, January to December 1898. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.[4] 804; pp.[4] 804. With frequent black and white illustrations. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spines and black titles and decoration to uppers. All edges speckled red. Clean internally, with moderate..... More
Poems of Pleasure. Only Complete and Authorised Edition containing many new poems.
London; Gay and Bird, 1907. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] xii; 175 [3]. Contemporary half vellum for HARRISON & SONS, with fine Art-Nouveau gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles to red morocco label, and red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; machine-marbled endpapers..... More
Selections from Wordsworth. With Preface and Notes.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1888. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND, First edition thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xxiv; 309 [5]. With a portrait engraving of the author as a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. A New Edition.
London: Edward Moxon, 1847. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a New Edition. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[30] 619 [3]. With a steel engraved portrait frontispiece and vignette title page. Small print over two columns. Full tan calf, with gilt titles to dark green label, gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, panelled..... More
The Poetical Works of Wordsworth. A New Edition.
London: Edward Moxon, 1845. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Large octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[6] xxiv; 619 [7]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page by William Finden. Text printed in two columns. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt symbols of..... More
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