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Sonnets From the Portuguese
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets to
the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of
sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was
written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband,
Robert Browning.
Originally, Browning had no intention
of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter,
but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of
her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the... Read more about this item
the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of
sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was
written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband,
Robert Browning.
Originally, Browning had no intention
of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter,
but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of
her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the... Read more about this item
Orley Farm
by Anthony Trollope
When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil.
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item
Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item
Victorian Fiction Books & Ephemera
The Woman In White
by Collins, Wilkie
The Woman In White (1860 Harper & Brothers 1st Edition) BY WILKIE COLLINS. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1860.[2], 260, [4, ads] pp. Publisher's brown stamped heavy cardboard boards with elaborate blind stamped Harper and Brothers cartouche on front and back boards. Ads state B. Miss Mulock spelled correctly. Used. Good- Condition. Our copy lacks it's spine. Some water-spotting noted. Please see our photos. States 1860 on the title page. In-text illustrations by John McLenan. Both pairs of...
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$2750.00
Felix Holt, the Radical
by Eliot, George
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866 Three volumes. First edition, in Carter's "A" binding, with 4 pages of publisher advertisements and no catalog at the rear of Volume III. Publisher's cinnamon cloth, decorative borders stamped in blind to the boards, spines lettered in gilt. Near fine set with some toning to spines, tiny spot of soiling to fore edge of Volume I text block, light spotting to fore edge of Volume II text block, bookseller's stamp to rear pastedowns, and some...
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$1750.00
The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
by Colin Duriez
Duriez, Colin. The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle. BIOGRAPHY. Lion Books, Oxford, England. 2015. ISBN 9780745956343. USED. VG CONDITION. Summary: "THE OXFORD INKLINGS tells the story of the friendships, mutual influence, and common purpose of the Inklings – the literary circle which congregated around C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. " 287 pages, indexed. 5 1/8 X 7 7/8.
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$34.95
The Mudlark
by Bonnet, Theodore
Bonnet, Theodore. The Mudlark. Copyright 1949. Doubleday, NY First American Edition. States 1949 on the title page. VG/Good original DJ. A clean, solid copy in a nice illustrated Ken Riley dust jacket. Price-clipped. 305 pages. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of a surprise visit to Windsor Castle which changed the destiny of Victoria's Empire. A delightful, tongue-in-cheek story."
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$64.95
The Folio Book Of The English Christmas
by Beare Geraldine (Selected by)
London: The Folio Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. 1st Thus (Folio Society Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. One of those Wonderfully Decorated Books that the Folio Society do so well - This one quite scarce and for CHRISTMAS! In FINE original burgundy coloured, gilt decorated, cloth-covered boards, with bright gilt decorative titling to the spine and front board. The front board with added bright red and green! Beautiful!. In the original green slipcase which has a few marks from...
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£85.00
The Woman In White The Home Library Series A.L. Burt Company
by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins. The Home Library Series A.L. Burt Company. P Undated, circa 1940. Maroon cloth boards with gold gilt topstain. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice vintage copy.
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$100.00
Collected Works of A. Conan Doyle, One Volume Edition
by Doyle, A.Conan
215DoyleWorks A. Conan Doyle. Collected Works of A. Conan Doyle, One Volume Edition. 1920, Walter J. Black. SHERLOCK HOLMES. USED. VG Condition/ No DJ as issued. 1020 pages. Rare in nice condition like this one. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8.
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$64.95
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature 2 Volume Set - NEW. UNUSED.
by Hunt, Peter
London: Routledge. As New with no dust jacket. 2004. Second Edition (New Edition); First Printing. Hardcover. 0415290538 . SECOND EDITION 2004 in 2 volumes. This set is New and Unused and still in the original shrink wrap - I only opened one edge to check the publishing details. NO Inscriptions or marks. 1416 Pages. Published price £310. This 2 volume set came from the library of one of the contributors - the late Joyce Irene Whalley (V & A). "The second edition of Peter Hunt's...
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£175.00
The Lady's Realm . An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Volume XXI (21) November 1906 to April 1907
by Various. H Rider Haggard, Frank Richardson; Alice and Claude Askew, Etc, Etc
London: Hutchinson and Co. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Handsomely bound in the original maroon cloth boards with stamped decoration and bright gilt titling/blocking to the spine (slightly rubbed) and with the Title/other detail picked out on two bright gilt decorated blocks, to front cover. The tips of the corners and the head/tail of the spine and a couple of points on the front edge are also LIGHTLY rubbed and very slightly bumped. There is a 'Swansea...
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£49.00
The Little Mother Goose
by Jessie Wilcox Smith
Smith, Jessie Willcox: The Little Mother Goose (1918 Dodd, Mead & Company Stated 2nd Edition) Children's book. Nursery Tales. ILLUSTRATED BY JESSIE WILCOX SMITH. Used. VG/ No DJ if issued. Black cloth. Gold Titling on spine is somewhat dimmed. Front Pastedown is complete and in nice condition. Twelve color plates (including frontis) . Oblong 8vo; 176 p.. Please see our photos. Rare/scarce. A clean, solid copy.
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$250.00
The Artist on the Artist (SIGNED Copy)
by Guest, Harry
Exeter: Elm Bank Publications. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 1902454103 . Maroon decorated card covers, just a touch of rubbing to the extremities. Internally the first few pages are a little 'wavy' - negligible - o/w this is a very good large format paperback book. (xv) + (1) + 462 pp. Flat SIGNED without dedication on the title page by the Author, otherwise unmarked. Clean and tight throughout. Harry Guest (Henry Bayly Guest) is a...
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£39.00
What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières
by Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton. What Are These Wounds: The Life of a Cistercian Mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières. FIRST EDITION. RARE. Copyright 1950, February 17, 1948 First Printing Thus, The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee. Written by respected Trappist author THOMAS MERTON. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/GOOD- CONDITION $2.50 UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. Top portion of dust jacket spine is missing. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. RELIGION, MYSTICISM, CATHOLICISM. TRAPPISTINE.
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$125.00
A Child's Garden Of Verses
by Smith, Jessie Willcox
Used. Stevenson, Robert Louis: A Child's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1905, Charles Scribner's Sons impression BB2C-1.58[H] Used. VG/Good price-clipped original purple dust jacket. RARE THUS. a gift presentation copy. Has a purple cloth ribbon laid in. This ribbon may be original to the edition, but I don't have that information. Condition: Other than a gift label pasted to front free endpaper and the ribbon, this item appears to be in near fine, unread condition. The dust...
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$150.00
Mrs Brown on the Alabama Claims
by Sketchley, Arthur (Pseudonym For Geroge Rose)
London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd. Fair with no dust jacket. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial paper-coverd boards. No date given , circa early 1870's. Typical cheap 'Yellowback Railway Literature' with the usual chipped with loss, spine, corners and edges. Cover rubbed and worn, spine chipped with backing/webbing showing through. Illustrated front cover, and though the title reads 'Mrs Brown on the Alabama CASE' the title inside reads 'Mrs Brown on the Alabama...
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£25.00
Colonel Quaritch, V.E.
by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard. Colonel Quaritch, V.E. Longmans, Green And Co. In 1 Volume. States New Edition , 1896, on the title page. USED. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Brown boards, silver titling. Titling is still bright. Plot summary: "After leaving active service, a decorated battlefield officer, Colonel Quaritch, VE. moves back to his ancestral village of Honham, where he unexpectedly finds more drama than he bargained for." 341 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/4. Handwritten inscription on first white...
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$125.00
Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children's Books Brought Together and Introduced to the Reader (Forgotten Children's Books)
by Tuer, Andrew W
London: The Leadenhall Press, Ltd. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. 1898-99. Clean dark blue boards with bright gilt titling and illustration to front cover and to spine. The tips of the corners lightly bumped, tail of spine has 3 'nicks', bottom edges lightly rubbed. Top edge gilt, Remaining fore-edges toned with age and foxed. Hinges sound, but inner rear paper hinge splitting. A handsome looking copy. Internally a presentation note in fading ink, dated 1902, to...
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£15.00
Ballad of Reading Gaol (The Golden Books)
by Wilde, Oscar
By Oscar Wilde. Ballad of Reading Gaol (The Golden Books) Barse & Hopkins NY. Undated, circa 1910. POETRY. RARE EDITION with printed dedication related to the prison period in Wilde's biography - "In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime trooper of the royal horse guards OBIIT H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7, 1896". USED. Good condition/ no DJ if issued. Gray paper boards with gold titling and ornamentation as shown in this stock photo. 4 ¼ X 7. 30 deckle-edge pages. Ships from United States.
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$55.00
Character Sketches from Dickens. Introduction by Kate Perugini (Charles Dickens's Daughter) ... Illustrated by Harold Copping
by Matz B. W. (compiled with Foreword by)
London: Raphael TUCK & Sons Ltd. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1924. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Chocolate brown cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Blind stamped decoration to the upper cover surrounding the bright gilt titling. A little light 'bumping' to the head and tail of the spine, some 'scratches' to the rear cover, but overall the covers are VG. Top edge Gilt. No dustjacket. Internally Very Good. A gift note to a former...
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£42.00
The People Of The Mist
by H. Rider Haggard
H. Rider Haggard, Longmans Green & Co., London. The People of the Mist: First Edition September, 1894. Reprinted January, 1895. USED. Good+/ No DJ Included. Green boards with gold gilt titling , jagged mountains and red diamond graphic design. Spine has darkened somewhat. 5 x 7 1/2. 357 PAGES plus adverts. ADVENTURE FICTION ROMANCE. VICTORIAN NOVEL. Summary: "The People of the Mist is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding romance, and discovering a lost race and...
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$300.00
The Battle of Life. The "Pears" Centenary Edition of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books.
by Dickens, Charles, Illustrated by Charles Green
London: A & F Pears Ltd. ,. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1912. 1st Thus (Centenary Edition). Hardcover. One of the 5 Charming Pears' Centenary Editions of Dickens' Christmas Books. In original tan sand-grained cloth boards with bright gilt titling to both the spine and front cover, and an inlaid colour portrait of Pears' signature 'Bubbles' portrait to the centre of the front cover, with decorative black borders. The base colour to the spine is slightly faded as usual but...
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£22.00
The Queen Of Hearts
by Collins, Wilkie
The Queen Of Hearts, 1859 Harper & Brothers, NY. First Edition. By Wilkie Collins. Complete in one volume. Exlib. Marbled boards, beige cloth spine. Paper library tag on spine. 4 5/8 X 7 1/2. Moss green end-papers are intact at the hinge. 472 pages. Pages tanned. Some pages show some degree of water damage. Please see our photos. SUMMARY: "A remote castle in Wales inhabited by three older men is the last place on earth that a young, lively girl of 18 would want to spend time. And yet, when forced by...
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$725.00
She: A History of Adventure
by H. Rider Haggard
Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression, 1921 on the title page. Dedicated to fellow author Andrew Lang. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Mallard Green boards with bright gilt titling on front board and spine. 310 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Summary: "A dying colleague gives Mr. Horace Holly at Cambridge University a locked box, the contents of which lead Mr. Holly to travel to Eastern Africa where he hopes to solve an ancient mystery, only to be...
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$125.00
Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph
by Lawrence, T.E
T.E. Lawrence. SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM, A TRIUMPH. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Privately Printed, 1926. First Published for general circulation 1935. First American Edition. States MCMXXXVI on the title page. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Garden City, NY. GOOD CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. 672 pages, indexed. Beige buckram boards. Spine has darkened a bit. 6 7/8 X 9 ½.
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$100.00
A WELCOME and A WELCOME. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES FROM THE POET LAUREATE with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS PUBLISHER
by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord
London: Edward Moxon & Co./Day & Son, 1863. First Edition. Wraps. The illuminated version is disbound and has a faint running stain in the lower left corner almost entirely in the margin. The signature is a bit faded with mounting traces on the verso of the letter. Near Fine. Included are a first issue copy (with the solid diamond and rule ornament on the title) of the 4-page leaflet (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") published by Edward Moxon & Co. and the version illuminated by Owen Jones (8-1/4" x 11-1/2") and...
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$2187.50
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Hugo, Victor
Hugo, Victor. Please see book in beigde and red dust jacket at bottom right of our enclosed batch photo: The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.
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$150.00
