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Triple-Deckers
London: Remington & Co., 1879. First / First. Hardback. A fine copy. Three volumes, complete. Quite uncommon. First published in 1877 as La Sultane Parisienne, La Fievre de L;Inconnu and La Venus Noire. A fantastic copy. A touch knocked at the spine tips, very light rubbing. Also issued as a......
Item 9891The Mortons of Bardom: A Lancashire Tale
London: T. Cautley Newby, 1863. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy set. Complete. Quite uncommon, three copies on COPAC, none found in commerce. All three volumes have been rebacked. Library stamps to the versos of the title pages.
Item 11916Hampton Court; or, The Prophecy Fulfilled
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Three volumes, complete. Bound in half calf. Leather and boards scuffed and worn. Interally quite sound with a few areas of light foxing and a bit of splitting to the hinges. Label chipped. Signature scribbled out on the endpapers.....
Item 12521The Temple of Melekartha
London: Holdsworth and Ball, 1831. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. An uncommon book with only two located in commerce in last few decades. "...a long disquisitional tale at the heart of which may be found an impressive city built on ruins left by a lost race dating.....
Item 12374The Attache or Sam Slick in England with the Second Series of the Same
London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First / First. Hardback. Very good condition. Four volumes, complete. Bound in half leather with marbled boards and speckled edges. A little foxing and some sunning to the spines, offsetting from the binding. Overall a pleasing set. Also: I'm perfectly aware that the books are out.....
Item 10297The Crusade of the Excelsior
London: E.V. White, 1887. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Two volumes, complete. Both volumes a little edge worn, with some fading to the spines and tanning to the leaves. Top edge dusty.
Item 13409The Rising Sun: A Serio-Comic Satiric Romance
London: Appleyards, 1807. Second / First. Hardback. Good condition. Complete in three volumes. In the original boards. Some chipping to the board edges, a little loss to the spines and labels. Internally the leaves are very neat, but the plate from each volume is detached. Collector's plate to the front.....
Item 12332The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
London: Taylor & Hessey, 1819. SECOND / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Three volumes, complete. Preceded by Cary's 1814 publication. An important issue. Bound in half calf, some chipping to the leather and the labels. A few spots of foxing. Pencil notes to front endpaper. Nice overall.
Item 10884The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician
London: Chatto & Windus, 1891 [1890]. H.M. Paget. First / First. Hardback. A good book. Three volumes, complete. Inscribed by the author's wife to volume one. With an als from the same laid in. Quite an uncommon book, preceding the single volume issue of 1891, but itself preceded by the.....
Item 9922Whychcotte of St. John's. Or, the Court, the Camp, the Quarter-Deck, and the Cloister
London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. EX-LIBRARY copy. Two volumes, complete. Seemingly the original boards, though the spines seem to have been replaced at some point. Stickers to the front pastedowns. Library stamps. A little pulling to the hinges, some dusting, a little foxing.....
Item 11355Leicester: An Autobiography
London: George Redway, 1885. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Two volumes, complete. Quite uncommon. The author is best known for his work on Australia. Boards worn and marked, reading lean, bumping to the tips and a little toning. Collector's plates to the front pastedowns.
Item 9821Pacha of Many Tales
London: Saunders & Otley, 1835. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Three volumes, complete. A lovely copy. Bound fairly recently in half calf. Binder's stamp and seller's sticker to each volume. New endpapers provided with the binding. A nice set.
Item 12331The Desultory Man
London: Saunders & Otley, 1836. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Three volumes, complete. Early half calf with marbled boards, marbled edges. Owner's plate to front pastedowns, a little rubbing to the leather. Some rubbing to the boards. Binder's label. Pencil note to front endpaper of volume one.....
Item 11825Curious Things of the Outside World
London: T. and W. Boone, 1861. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Two volumes, complete. "A seriously odd-ball mish-mash of matter. The first volume includes many supernatural stories, sketches and extracts from other works and, according to the preface, serves as "the scaffolding, as it were, to the.....
Item 13288My Marine Memorandum Book
London: T.C. Newby, 1845. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Complete in three volumes. Fly-title misbound in volume one (bound prior to title page). A set of nautical tales sometimes comic, sometimes a bit more serious. A couple of fantasy tales. Jennings is best known for his work.....
Item 10442Steyneville; or, Fated Fortunes. Being the Memoirs of an Unextraordinary Man.
London: Remington & Co., 1885. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Some bumping to the spine tips and some markings to the cloth. Bindings a little shaken.
Item 11308The Last Inca; or, the Story of Tupac Amaru
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Complete. "Historical novel, set in 1970, describing a king of rebirth of the Inca nation in Peru and its abortive revolt against the Spanish. The last, long chapter, however describes what Peru would have been like had the.....
Item 10085Dust
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Three volumes. Originally serialised in The Gentleman's Magazine the previous year. Rebound in half leather. Ex-library copy with embossed stamp to upper boards, various stamps and a leaf with a closed tear. A little edgewear elsewhere.
Item 11789Sebastian Strome
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1879. First / First. Hardback. A good copy. Three volumes bound as one, likely issued after the separate issues. Hawthorne helped shape the then nascent detective genre. Some wear to the cloth, with bumping to the corners, spine tips and edges; the tips in particular.....
Item 11336Fascination
London: Richard Bentley, 1880. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Uncommon, two volumes bound as one - a later binding. Some soiling to the covers and a few marks internally but a nice copy overall.
Item 10828Masollam; A Problem of the Period
London: Blackwood, 1886. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Three volumes, complete. 24pp ads. A tale of the "perniciousness of evangelical cults;" something of acute interest to the author given his relationship with a New York Utopian movement. The novel features a uncommonly well-written female character who shakes.....
Item 11581Tales of an Antiquary: Chiefly Illustrative of the Manners, Traditions, and Remarkable Localities of Ancient London
London: Henry Colburn, 1828. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. A somewhat obscure collection of tales from the 12th to the 18th century mostly set in and around London. The collection includes The Wehr Wolf: A Legend of the Limosin, an early werewolf tale, preceding Reynolds' Wagner the.....
Item 11009Legends of the Rhine and of the Low Countries
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1832. First / First. Hardback. A very good set. Three volumes, complete. A collection of 13 short tales, many more like novellas. A number of the tales are set way back in history, more than 500 years before the publication. A little known collection.....
Item 11915A Modern Delilah
London: Hurst & Blackett, 1888. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Boards a little worn and bumped, some light soiling to the cloth. TEG. Internally neat. Gift inscription, and each volume additionally signed by the recipient. Spines faded.
Item 12405In Far Lochaber
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1888. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author to volume one with an ALS by Black's wife laid in. Three volumes, complete. A rare book. Some slight bumping and tanning, first gathering of volume one holding, but only.....