Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire by Doyle, A. Conan - 1897

Murray, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. Reprinted. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed and tunned.

John Murray, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1929. Reprint. 300 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Notable tanning to pages throughout. Front hinge cracked. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine.

George Newnes, 1902. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1902. No Edition Remarks. 126 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Book has been rebound. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. No advertisements to rear. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding is slightly loose, however pages remain attached. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some tanning to spine and edges. Dents to edges. Brown and white marks overall.

Smith, Elder & Co, 1897. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. The boards are worn and marked.Foxing.Well bound.Good copy.[R.N]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

D. Appleton and Company. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Owner's name on front free endpage. (mystery fiction, historical fiction, France, Consulate and First Empire 1799-1815)

D. Appleton & Company, New York. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1897. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Red cloth cover with silver and gilt stamped emblem on front cover has a stain along the top of the spine left top edge otherwise clean. Corners are bumped and has lightly pushed in caps . Overall in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's name neatly inscribed to front end sheet. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Complete with b&w plates. .

London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1897. 8vo. x, 300, (8) pp. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt decoration & lettering to front board & spine. Spine darkened with slight wear to spine ends and along spine joint. Hinges partially split. Internally clean. No ownership names. Eight-page publisher's adverts at rear. With twelve illustrations. . Good. Decorated Cloth. First Edition. 1897.

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Decorated red cloth gilt. Contemporary owner name (R. Chandos Pole) inked with blind embossed stamp on preliminary pages, light foxing on page edges, hinges cracked, spine sunned with fraying on ends, about very good with edges bumped. "This novel has been re-written and lengthened by one third since its appearance in serial form, A. Conan Doyle. Hindhead: April 23, 1897." The Chando-Pole family has been at the seat of the Radbourne Hall from the time of the Norman Conquest. Radbourne Hall is a prominent historical fixture in Derbyshire. Reginald Chandos Pole posed for portraits by different artists, "Master of the Meynell Hounds" by H. Hill and "Men of the Day No. 397" by Sir Leslie Ward

New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.

New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.

NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.

NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.

v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.