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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.
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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,
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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.
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THE WOMAN'S KINGDOM. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Copyright edition. In two volumes. Vol's 983 & 984.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1868. 310; 296 pages. Both half-titles present. Bound as one volume in quarter calf gilt over marbled boards. Spine a little rubbed at head & heel; some light browning; else a very good, clean copy.
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THREE NOVELS. Vainglory. Inclinations. Caprice. With an introduction by Ernest Jones.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First collected edition. Some light spotting at start and end; wrapper a little worn and chipped at head & heel of spine and corner; else a very good copy.
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TO THE VICTORS THE SPOILS.
London.Macgibbon and kee. 1950. 350pp. Original cloth, gilt. Pictorial unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Touch of spotting on top edge. Tiny tear at head of wrapper. Gilt tarnished on spine. Slightly cocked. Else a very good copy
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TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEAS. Translated from the French of Jules Verne.
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1873. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF VERNE’S CLASSIC. viii, [3], 4-303, [1], 8pp. ad’s dated 1872-73. Illustrated with 112 black & white plates. Original brown pictorial cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. Contained in a modern morocco-backed folding box. First U.K. edition and the first edition in English (the first American edition being prepared from the English sheets). Inner hinges cracked and owner-repaired – though not clumsily. Binding a little rubbed with some bumping to the head & heel and slight wear to the corners, but a very good copy of a book normally found in a distressed state.
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TWO OLD MEN'S TALES. The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter.
London: Richard Bentley, 1844. [4], 364 pages. Engraved frontispiece. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Very slight rubbing to head & heel of spine; else an excellent copy.
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ULSTER FIRESIDE TALES.
lONDON.Heath Cranton, Limited. No date. (1921.). 253pp. Original cloth. Pictorial dust-wrapper. First edition. Some foxing front and rear and on endpapers; folding reproduction of a review from The Times on front free endpaper; presentation inscription from the author on the half-title. A very good copy in a scarce wrapper that has some light marking and one short tear.
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URSULA'S LOVE STORY. A Novel. By the author of "Beautiful Edith," "Sun and Shade." Etc. Etc. New edition.
Ward, Lock and Co, No date [circa 1880's]. Yellowback. 397, [16 ad's] pages. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Octavo. Boards a little rubbed, and head of spine little worn; bookplate of Comte Louis de Segur on front endpaper; else very good.
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VILLAGE FANFARE or The Man from the Future. Illustrated by Fred Excell.
London: Oxford University Press, 1954. 195 pages. Illustrated in black & white, Original green cloth with silver gilt; original unprice-clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Wrapper a little worn at head of spine and with a very short tear in the upper panel and the spine is a little mellowed; else an excellent clean copy. Very scarce in dust-wrapper. £
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WINSTANSLOW.
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