M. A. M. (M. A. Mocatta)

A great forgiveness, or, The story of Gladys.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with black, yellow & white titles & decoration, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, Sunday School prize certificate dated 1896 on front pastedown, no inscriptions. 80 pages, engraved frontispiece, 8pp adverts at rear. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 59749

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Victorian Morality

Q (Quiller-Couch, Arthur)

Wandering heath: stories, studies and sketches.

Cassell & Company Limited, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles, sunned at spine, cloth rubbed, no inscriptions. 206 pages + 16 pages of publisher's adverts, decorated endpapers. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 60734

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Short stories Victorian Age

Anon. [Sarah Schoonmaker Baker]

Barton Todd.

W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, 1892. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardback bound in blue cloth with gilt, red, white & black decoration and titles, cloth worn at corners & faded at spine, ink splash to rear board, pencilled name on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 128 pages + 16pp adverts (dated 1892), engraved frontispiece. Includes an extra short story, 'The young lawyer'. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 51716

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Religious fiction

Anon

Old John Corbin's spectacles.

Religious Tract Society, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in red cloth with black titles and floral decoration, cloth worn at spine ends and corners, Sunday School prize label on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. 96 pages + 16 pages of publisher's adverts, illustrations in the text. Undated but assume date from other books advertised. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 68861

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Sunday School prize Childrens Fiction

Anon

The pretty village.

The Religious Tract Society, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Stitched binding, some pages pulled, spine repaired with electrical tape, back board missing, front paper covered board worn and chipped with small area of loss at bottom corner, page edges tanned, no inscriptions. 30 pages, 3 colour illustrations on plates by Kronheim & Co plus illustrations in the text. Undated but Copac gives 1851. Poor.

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Book number: 59833

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Children's religious stories Victorian Age

Baynton, Barbara

Bush Studies.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and chipped and creased at the top of the back cover. 140 pages. Australian Classics edition includes a memoir of Barbara Baynton and a commentary on her stories. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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Book number: 67484

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Australian literature Outback Women's studies Rural Life Short stories

Benson, Margaret

The soul of a cat and other stories.

William Heinemann, 1901. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean, small format hardback tightly bound in green cloth with gilt titles, gilt picture blindstamped on front cover, spine tanned, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, page edges rough cut, endpapers tanned, name on title page. x + 176 pages, frontispiece and tissue guard detached but present, photos on plates, illustrations in the text by Henrietta Ronner. Fair with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 68950

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Cats Felines Pets

An old boy (Thomas Hughes)

Tom Brown's school days.

Macmillan, 1899. Sixth Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in pictorial red cloth with gilt titles, cloth rubbed and worn, short split at spine, name and date on front pastedown. xxii + 308 pages + 6 pages publisher's adverts, illustrations in the text by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall, preface by the author. Fair with No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 64274

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Rugby public school Classic novels

Bronte, Charlotte

Jane Eyre.

Collins, 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean, small format (4 x 6¼ inches) hardback tightly bound in red leather with gilt titles and decoration, binding pulled at half title page, minor wear at spine ends and corners, name and date on second front endpaper. xiv + 556 pages. A library of classics edition, undated but inscription dated August 1953. Good.

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Book number: 67559

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Currer Bell Mr Rochester

Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel de: Jarvis, Charles [trans.]

Don Quixote de la Mancha [in 2 volumes].

U.S.A: Henry G. Bohn, 1842. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Two hardbacks bound in red half leather over marbled paper on boards, gilt titles & decoration at spines, rubbed at edges and corners. Bindings do not quite match, and volume 1 has gilt page edges and 2 has marbling. Volume 1 has the armorial bookplate of Edward Cunard and marbled endpapers, 2 has plain endpapers and no ownership markings. [xii] + 706 & [xviii] + 772 pages respectively, and both volumes have plates and many drawings in the text by Tony Johannot and others. Heavy set, 3kg unpacked, so additional postage may be requested. Good with No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 65688

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Sancho Panza Don Quixote Edward Cunard Nevill Holt

Chambers, William & Robert (eds)

Chambers's journal of popular literature, science, and art 1881.

W. & R. Chambers, Ltd. 1881. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with gilt titles and blindstamped decoration, red sprinkled edges, cloth is rubbed at corners, fox spotting to rear endpapers, no inscriptions. viii + 848 pages, index. The 18th volume of this miscellany. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 31917

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: History of Science Victorian Age Nineteenth century

Churchill, Winston

Richard Carvel.

Macmillan Co. 1899. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles, cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, gift inscription on front endpaper. xiv + 540 pages, illustrations on plates. Author is the American novelist, not the British polymath. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 54954

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Dalin, Talmage (pseudonym of Linda Villari)

European relations: a Tirolese sketch.

T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean smaller format hardback bound in green cloth with paper spine label, hinges cracked but holding well, small institutional stamps to both pastedowns, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. [iv] + 200 pages. A volume from the 'Pseudonym library'. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 60620

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Humorous Fiction Switzerland

Day, Thomas

The history of Sandford & Merton: a work intended for the use of children [volume 2 only of a 2 volume set].

F. C. & J. Rivington et al. 1818. New edition. Hardcover. Hardback bound in brown leather, spine largely absent, first 4 leaves damp-marked, worn at corners, neat 1859 inscription on the front pastedown. 294 pages, frontispiece. Fair.

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Book number: 51899

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Leather bindings Antiquarian books

Dickens, Charles

Bleak house: tomes premier & second (2 livres).

France: Librairie Hachette, 1884. Reprint. Hardcover. Texte en Francais. Text in French. 2 clean hardbacks tightly bound in quarter black leather with gilt titles and bands, mottled black boards rubbed at edges, marbled endpapers, no inscriptions. Tome premier: closed circular tear to bottom corner of page 149/150 but no loss, 402 pages. Tome second: short tears with small areas of loss to leather at edges, 384 pages. Good with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 56596

Catalogue: Fiction:: 19th Century

Keywords: Roman Anglais Victorian novels Classics