- Tag = Fiction
-
THE MARKED HAND or A Villain in Hand. New Magnet Library No. 1215.
New York: Street & Smith Corporation, No date [circa late 1920's]. Softcover. Text block browned; spine worn & head & heel with small loss of paper; soft crease-mark in front cover; else a very good copy.
More details Price: £15.00 -
THE METEMPSYCHOSIS. By a Modern Pythagorean. Contained in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. NO. CXII. May, 1826. Vol. XIX.
1826. Bound in contemporary boards recently re-backed. A fine copy contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. The Metempsychosis, was followed by the publication of his Man w. A scarce first publication of short story by Robert Macnish (1802-1837), a Glasgow surgeon and a regular ith the Nose, Barber of Gottingen, Adventures of Colonel O’Shaughnessy and Who can it be? His other works included Execution at Paris, Night near Monte Video, A Vision of Robert Bruce, The Philosophy of Sleep, and his Book of Aphorisms, published in 1833. His Introduction to Phrenology followed in 1835.
More details Price: £325.00 -
THE MYSTERY OF THE BAGHDAD CHEST.
Short story contained in The Strand Magazine for January, 1932. Spine worn, with a small loss of paper at the head; else a very good copy. Also contains a short story by Rudyard Kipling, entitled 'Beauty Spots.
More details Price: £75.00 -
THE NATURE OF A CRIME.
London.Duckworth and Co. 1924. 119pp. Original red cloth binding, gilt. Original dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Both endpapers have some light staining; small rub on front free endpaper; fore-edges spotted; top edge dusty; else a very good copy in a wrapper that has a small chip from the head of the spine - not affecting any lettering.
More details Price: £45.00 -
THE NATURE OF A CRIME.
Garden City.Doubleday, Page and Company. 1924. xv, 108pp. Original cloth-backed paper-covered boards with mounted labels. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First American edition. Edges of boards rubbed and corners a little worn; else a very good copy in a wrapper that is lightly chipped at the extremities.
More details Price: £60.00 -
THE NOUVEAU POOR. A Romance of real life in west London after the late war. Edited by Desmond Coke. And copiously illustrated from life by John Nash.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1921. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 166, [1 ad'] pages. Frontispiece, pictorial half-title, and 15 full-page illustrations. Original orange pictorial cloth. Octavo. First edition. Bookplate, some occasional light spotting; small mark on front panel; spine dulled; else good plus.
More details Price: £35.00 -
THE PASSING OF AMBROSE.
Short story contained in The Strand Magazine for July, 1928. 4 cm's lost from base of spine, and a smaller amount from head of spine; small corner lost from front cover; else a very good copy. Also contains, Kipling's 'Dayspring Mishandled.'
More details Price: £20.00 -
THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman.
Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1894. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 310 pages plus 2 of ad's. Red cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. latter issue. Ownership ink-stamp to front fee endpaper; sun-lightening to spine; else a very good copy.
More details Price: £60.00 -
THE SAVAGE-CLUB PAPERS. Edited by Andrew Halliday.
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1868. Hardcover. 340, [2], [2 ad's] pages. Illustrated throughout. Bound in brown cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. A very good copy of the second series. Authors include: W. S. Gilbert, J. R. Planché, and Artemus Ward.
More details Price: £35.00 -
THE SCHOOL TORMENT. Illustrated by H. C. Earnshaw.
Edinburgh.W & R Chambers Ltd. 1920. [i-viii] [9] 10-380 pp. B/w illustrations by Harold Earnshaw. Original blue pictorial boards. Octavo. First Edition. Browning to endpapers and to edges. boards a trifle rubbed to extremities. Else an excellent copy.
More details Price: £260.00 -
THE SCOURING OF THE WHITE HORSE; or, the Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk. By the author of "Tom Brown's School Days." Illustrated by Richard Doyle.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1859. 228, 16 ad’s, pages. Double-page frontispiece, plus illustrations within the text. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 185 x 145 mm. First edition. Faded gift inscription on verso of half-title, else a very good and attractive copy.
More details Price: £75.00 -
THE SLYPE.
London.Jonathan Cape. 1933. 319pp. Original cloth. Small octavo. First Florin Books edition. (First published 1927.) Endpapers foxed; hinges cracked; binding rather soiled and cocked. Inscribed on title by the author: 'To Eric Halfpenny & May With Best Wishes from the Author. I'm so glad you like the Slype, as I wrote it in the Tropics when I was homesick for Rochester, Kent. Yours Ever Russell Thorndyke.'
More details Price: £73.00 -
THE SNUFF SHOP, Illustrated by Ray Evans, Foreword by Kinglsey Amis.
London.Michael Joseph. 1974. [i-vi], 7-64pp. Colour frontispiece, with black & white illustrations throughout. Blue pictorial imitation leather, gilt. First edition, signed by John Arlott on the front free endpaper. Octavo. Original glassine torn, with loss; else as new.
More details Price: £48.00 -
THE SOLDIER'S MEDITATION the Night before the Battle of Talavera.
Whitehaven: Printed by William Wilson, 56, King-St, No date [circa 1840-1860]. Chapbook. 8 pages. Single sheet, folded to form eight pages. Uncut and unstitched. A fine copy.
More details Price: £50.00 -
THE STORY AND SONG OF BLACK RODERICK.
London: Alexander Moring Ltd, 1906. [4], 82 pages. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Ownership inscription on front endpaper; rub on lower panel; else a very good copy.
More details Price: £35.00 -
THE STRAND MAGAZINE. Volume VII, January to June, 1894.
London: George Newnes Ltd, 1894. Original publisher's blue pictorial cloth, gilt. 4to. A near fine copy, without inscription. This volume is heavy and will incur extra postage; please contact us directly for a quotation.
More details Price: £75.00 -
THE THREE ADVICES An Irish Tale; to which is added The Silent Man with a Variety of Anecdotes.
Glasgow: W. & R. Inglis and Co, No date [circa 1835]. 24 pages. Wood-engraving on cover/title. Stitched into late plain wrappers. Small bookplate; else near fine.
More details Price: £35.00 -
THE WASP FACTORY. THE BRIDGE. ESPEDAIR STREET.
London: BCA, 1999. Softcover. Omnibus Edition. Presentation copy from Banks to his first wife, inscribed on the half-title: 'To Annie Love Ian.' Slight creasing to top outer corner; else very good – unread.
More details Price: £75.00 -
THE WATER GYPSIES.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1930. 392, 8 catalogue pages. Original green cloth with black decoration & lettering. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Fore-edges a little browned; wrapper a little worn & head & heel & corners; else a very good copy,
More details Price: £65.00 -
THE WATER-WITCH; or. The skimmer of the seas. With nine illustrations by W. A. Cranston.
London: John Dicks, No date. 169, [1 blank], [2 ad’s pages. Bound with, GRIFFITH, Gerald. THE COLLEEN BAWN; or, the Collegians. A tale of Garryowen. With nine illustrations by John Proctor. London. John Dicks. No date. 149, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Bound as one in publisher’s cloth gilt. Octavo. Spine a little faded; else a very good clean copy. The text is printed in the style of a Penny Dreadful with two columns of text to each page.
More details Price: £48.00