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Item #12245 The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole [in the Original Parts]. Albert...

Albert Smith

Item 12245The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole [in the Original Parts]

London: Richard Bentley, 1846-1847. John Leech. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Complete in 16 issues. All plates present (32 engravings plus a portrait). A satirical look at contemporary Victorian society, through the eyes of a fairly daft protagonist. Some wear to the wrappers, including chipping and short.....

Price: £1,250.00

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Item #11919 The Wassail-Bowl. Albert Smith

Albert Smith

Item 11919The Wassail-Bowl

London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Somewhat recently bound in half morocco. A lovely copy. Illustrations by John Leech throughout. Not uncommon, but a fun book.

Price: £175.00

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Item #10540 Holy Blue! Alphonse de Florian

Alphonse de Florian

Item 10540Holy Blue!

London: Ye Leadenhalle Presse; Field & Tuer, Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton Adams, nd [1884]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A little soiling and bumping to the covers. Leaves a touch grubby.

Price: £325.00

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Item #10537 Confessions of a Scribbler: Containing Among Other Curious Autobiographical Matter,...

Anon [Arthur Hamilton]

Item 10537Confessions of a Scribbler: Containing Among Other Curious Autobiographical Matter, his Experiences of the Printers, Publishers, Reviewers and Readers of a Modern Book

Merthyr Tydfil: H.W. Southey, nd [1879]. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Boards a touch rubbed, front hinge starting, with paper split. Lower board has been bent at some point. A little general dustiness. Front endpaper grubby with pencil erasure marks.

Price: £175.00

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Item #10040 A Fragment of the Voyages of Mr. Verigull Gulliver (Grandson to the celebrated...

Anonymous

Item 10040A Fragment of the Voyages of Mr. Verigull Gulliver (Grandson to the celebrated Traveller.) To the Island of Ae-Ri-Si-Ter, in the Lake of Spe-Cul Situated in the Province of Fo-Li, a part of China hitherto unexplored, etc. etc.

Cheltenham: None [Middle Hill Press], 1832. First Unbound. A short adventure ostensibly written by Gulliver's grandson. Science fiction / fantasy. The author of the piece appears to be unknown. 5pp. COPAC reports a copy at the BL. WorldCat locates four copies. Not in Bleiler, Locke or any other book I......

Price: £625.00

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Item #10879 The Golden Key, Proving an Internal Spiritual Sense to the Holy Word; and Containing...

Anonymous

Item 10879The Golden Key, Proving an Internal Spiritual Sense to the Holy Word; and Containing a Variety of Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, Introduced as Dreams of Translations Into Paradise

London: W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1817. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A fairly recent rebind by the look of it. Uncommon, Locke has it as a book of visions and spirit journeys along the lines of Swedenborg. Includes a section on angels from Jupiter and Mercury.....

Price: £300.00

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Item #9371 The House That Albert Built. Anonymous

Anonymous

Item 9371The House That Albert Built

London: G. Vickers, n.d. [c1851]. Henning. First / First. Paperback. A good copy. Uncommon. A satire on the Great Exhibition. In the original wraps, with the lower wrapper absent as is any paper from the spine, though holding well enough. Complete at 16pp. Two copies on COPAC.

Price: £475.00

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Item #11834 The Keys of Saint Martin's. Anonymous

Anonymous

Item 11834The Keys of Saint Martin's

London: Houlston & Sons, 1888. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. I have no idea what this book is about, but a brief view of the contents page suggest that it may well be devastatingly boring. Chapter XII is entitled John Freeman Resigns The Keys, Chapter X is.....

Price: £75.00

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Item #10691 The Last Week of the World: A Vision. Anonymous

Anonymous

Item 10691The Last Week of the World: A Vision

London: J. Evans & Son / J. Nisbet, n.d. [1814-1820?]. First / First. Unbound. A very good copy. A religious piece. 8pp including the 'title', unbound, just two folded sheets but holes suggest it was strung at some point. Uncommon, no copies located in commerce but a handful in institutions.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #9305 Memoirs of Jeremy Diddler the Younger. Anonymous

Anonymous

Item 9305Memoirs of Jeremy Diddler the Younger

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Two volumes bound as one. Uncommon. A picaresque novel. Cloth a little rubbed, binding a bit shaken, spine tips bumped and the front hinge has a 30mm split. A nice copy overall.

Price: £150.00

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Item #10176 The Pryings of a Postman. Anonymous

Anonymous

Item 10176The Pryings of a Postman

London: Saunders & Otley, 1845. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. An amusing, and rare book. No copies located in commerce (that's a lie, I found an auction record from 1881). The present copy bears the inscription of William Macready, an actor. Funnily enough, the book also bears the.....

Price: £335.00

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Item #10577 Sketches of the Southern Appennines [sic] [comprising] La Bella Ninfa, Agrigentum,...

Anonymous

Item 10577Sketches of the Southern Appennines [sic] [comprising] La Bella Ninfa, Agrigentum, and The Bandit of Avellino

No Place: No Publisher, n.d. [c1937]. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A seemingly unrecorded collection of three short pieces set around the Apennines. The first story is in the legend / folklore vein, the other two a bit more bucolic. An interesting book and not a chore.....

Price: £400.00

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Item #13413 The Vision of Hades, or the Region Inhabited by the Departed Spirits of the...

Anonymous

Item 13413The Vision of Hades, or the Region Inhabited by the Departed Spirits of the Blessed...To which is now added The vision of Noos

London: G.B. Whittaker, 1825. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Inscribed by the author, annoyingly retaining anonymity. In the original boards. The two tales tell of a sleeper transported to distant worlds, the first being to Heaven and the second a completely imaginary world. Vision of Hades is presented.....

Price: £750.00

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Item #11084 The Devil Upon Crutches in England, or Night Scenes in London. A Satirical Work....

Anonymous [A Gentleman from Oxford]

Item 11084The Devil Upon Crutches in England, or Night Scenes in London. A Satirical Work. Written upon the Plan of the celebrated Diable Boiteux of Monsieur Le Sage.

London: Philip Hodges, 1756. SECOND / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Based on Alain-Rene Lesage's comic novel, 'The Devil Upon Two Sticks' (1707), set in Madrid (compared to the current version set in London. Later full calf, with original endpapers. Internally very nice. Owner's plate to the front pastedown. 66pp.....

Price: £250.00

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Item #11900 The Blue-Coat Boy; or, Domestic Reminiscences of Mister Thomas Bounce, Driver of...

Anonymous [Charles Molloy Westmacott attrib.]

Item 11900The Blue-Coat Boy; or, Domestic Reminiscences of Mister Thomas Bounce, Driver of 'The Turnabout.' By His Friend and Associate Abel Funnefello.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1837. Andrew Crookenshanks'. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A rare Dickens parody on the fashionable styles of 'Life in London'. Authorship not certain. Boards rubbed and worn, hinges cracking a little, but still holding well enough. Leaves marked and stained, mostly the first 20.....

Price: £525.00

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Item #12014 Coralia: A Plaint of Futurity. Anonymous, Ellis J. Davis

Anonymous [Ellis J. Davis]

Item 12014Coralia: A Plaint of Futurity

London: Samuel Tinsley, 1876. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. "Conveys its protagonist posthumously to the land of Coralia Under the Sea, and subsequently into space, past the Moon and Sun, until she reaches the further stars, which are a heavenly abode – combines SF and fantasy and.....

Price: £400.00

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Item #10516 The Commissioner: or De Lunatico Inquireudo. Anonymous, G P. R. James

Anonymous [G.P.R. James]

Item 10516The Commissioner: or De Lunatico Inquireudo

Dublin: William Curry, 1843. Phiz. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A seemingly farcical book, maybe with a Quixotic tinge. But, also an inter-planetary device too, given that people seems to live on the moon etc. Anyway, I haven't read enough of it to form a decent opinion.....

Price: £225.00

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Item #12710 String of Pearls. Anonymous, G P. R. James

Anonymous [G.P.R. James]

Item 12710String of Pearls

London: Richard Bentley, 1832. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Complete in two volumes, bound in one. Seemingly James' first written works, though not his first published. A collection of seven tales written in his teens, and owing some existence to The Arabian Nights. The titles are: Hadgee.....

Price: £450.00

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Item #11840 The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham. Anonymous, James Kirke Paulding

Anonymous [James Kirke Paulding]

Item 11840The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham

New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1826. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A collection of tales including: 'The Man Machine; or, The Pupil of Circumstances', 'The Perfection of Reason', and 'The Perfection of Science'. The first tale is sort of dystopia / cacotopia, the second two are.....

Price: £225.00

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Item #13447 The Fashionable World Displayed. Anonymous, John Owen

Anonymous [John Owen]

Item 13447The Fashionable World Displayed

London: J. Hatchard, 1805. Fourth / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A critique of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Bound in fairly recent full leather, a little wear to the edges. Some offsetting to the endpapers. 4pp ads to the rear, a little roughly opened. Some spotting and.....

Price: £125.00

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Item #10417 Chronicles of Gotham, or, The Facetious History of Official Proceedings. Anonymous,...

Anonymous [John Smith]

Item 10417Chronicles of Gotham, or, The Facetious History of Official Proceedings

Glasgow: No Publisher, 1856. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon in commerce, but plenty of copies in libraries. Some rubbing to the cloth at the corners and spine tips. Catalogue description pasted to the front pastedown.

Price: £100.00

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Item #11929 The Paradise of Coquettes, A Poem in Nine Parts. Anonymous, Thomas Brown

Anonymous [Thomas Brown]

Item 11929The Paradise of Coquettes, A Poem in Nine Parts

London: John Murray, 1814. First / First. Hardback. Bound in plain buckram. No half title if there was one. Collation: title page, 56 page preface, 256pp of text. Some wear to the title page, but largely in great shape.

Price: £40.00

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Item #9358 Italian Tales: Tales of Humour, Gallantry, & Romance. Anonymous, Thomas Roscoe

Anonymous [Thomas Roscoe]

Item 9358Italian Tales: Tales of Humour, Gallantry, & Romance

London: Charles Baldwyn, 1824. George Cruickshank. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. The rare india paper issue, preceding what's commonly called the first issue. India Paper stated on the spine label. It's thought that the initial plan was to publish the book with plates on India paper, but that.....

Price: £300.00

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Item #10229 The Dreamer. Anonymous, William King

Anonymous [William King]

Item 10229The Dreamer

London: W. Owen, 1754. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy in a recent binding. A collection of short satirical essays. The first appearance of Jonathan Swift's poem 'The Answer'. Condition is very good, the front endpaper is a little chipped to the foreedge. A little dusty to the.....

Price: £275.00

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Item #10413 Lost Chords: Some Emotions with Morals. Arthur Rickett

Arthur Rickett

Item 10413Lost Chords: Some Emotions with Morals

London: A.D. Innes, 1895. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Signed by the author to the endpaper. His first book. Artist unrecoded, noted at DT or TD. Tissue guard to the frontis loose, probably as issued. Boards a little toned, top edge dusty. A little spotting.

Price: £235.00

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