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
(P'tit Bonhomme)
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, n.d. [c.1900].
'New and Cheaper Edition'. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A heart-warming story of a young Irish orphan's trials and tribulations in the late 19th century.
Victorian Literature
Being a History of the Adventures of J. Theodosiu Aristophano on the Island of Rapa Nui in Search of His Immortal Ancestor
New York, Norman L. Munro, 1887.
Munro's Library, Vol.50, No.721. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
One of two works written anonymously by John De Morgan as parodies to H. Rider Haggard's novel She.
Victorian Literature
London, Longmans, Green, 1887.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, rebacked in later paper.
Lang & Pollock's presumably affectionate parody of Rider Haggard's She. Lang (of the Fairy Tale multi-coloured books fame) and Haggard worked together on subsequent projects.
Victorian Literature
London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1862.
First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Original blind tooled red cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt.
A very good first edition set in the original cloth of this epic tale of disinheritance and illegitimacy, originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round.
Victorian Literature
London, Smith, Elder, 1891.
First edition. 3 vol. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary half red morocco on red cloth, spines gilt compartments within raised bands.
An attractive set of this historical adventure novel set during the Hundred Years' War in England, France, and Spain in 1366–67, against the background of the Black Prince's campaign to restore Peter of Castile to the throne. One of only 750 copies.