Internally very good; some minor discolouration to cloth, but really a very good example.
Frontispiece.
Green and Gibson A 25a.
£175
and other stories of War and Sport
London, Smith, Elder, 1900.
First edition. 8vo. Advertisements at end. Original red pictorial cloth lettered in gilt.
A very good first edition of this collection of stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
In stock
Internally very good; some minor discolouration to cloth, but really a very good example.
Frontispiece.
Green and Gibson A 25a.
Victorian Literature
London, Heinemann, 1897.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original blind-tooled cloth lettered in gilt.
Davis's rousing adventure novel follows engineer Robert Clay and his love interest, Hope Langham, as they become embroiled in a coup in the fictional Central American republic of Olancho. Uncommon, especially signed & inscribed.
Victorian Literature
London, Cassell, 1852.
First Cruikshank edition. 8vo. Later half green morocco on marbled boards.
A handsome example of this important early English edition, preceded by the Clark & Co. edition of 1852.
Victorian Literature
London, Greening & Co., 1906.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in gilt.
A scarce title, and a quietly distinctive supernatural novel by Balfour (1846–1909), a British sinologist, editor and novelist who spent much of his career in Shanghai, where he served as editor of the North China Daily News and other publications. The novel concerns a lame teenage boy surrounded by friendly ghosts, who ultimately joins his dead mother in Heaven.
Victorian Literature
An Illustrated Magazine of Light and Amusing Literature for the Hours of Relaxation
London, , 1867.
Volume XII. Large 8vo. Original purple cloth blocked in elaborate gilt to upper cover and spine, and in blind to lower cover.
Vol. XII (July to December) bound with the Christmas number for 1867, containing the first publication of Mrs Riddell's 'Hertford O'Donnell's Warning'.
London Society was a Victorian-era illustrated monthly periodical published between 1862 and 1898 by W. Clowes and Sons in London. It featured miscellaneous articles, short fiction, and serialized novels. Notable contributors included Charlotte Riddell and Florence Marryat.
Victorian Literature
London, Kegan, Paul, French Trubner, 1892.
8vo. Original burgundy cloth elaborately blocked in gilt to upper cover and spine. Dust-jacket.
A very attractive example of this early jacketed publication, similar to the Cranford series.