Tranter,Nigel

THE GILDED FLEECE a Novel

London, Ward, Lock & Co 1st first edition 1942 . Octavo beige cloth (foxed to cloth/worn to tips/dusty and with small vents at hinge/spine darkened) 224pp ownership stamp to half title, possibly newer endpapers? Some signs of use but mainly just War Economy standard dustiness. These wartime editions were not run off in such large print runs so the first editions are getting harder to come by. *Set in Scotland during the Napoleonic wars and the highland clearances.

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Trollope, Joanna

THE RECTOR'S WIFE

London, Black Swan 1992 Portrait of author to inside of cover. . Small octavo paperback 284pp +[1]p. V.G+

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Trollope,Anthony (1815-1882)

THE WARDEN with an introduction by Anthony Cockshut

London & Glasgow, Collins Classic series 661 1963 Frontis portrait of Anthony Trollope. . Small octavo green cloth gilt title to spine, 1/3rd of dust jacket spine & tips missing 255pp. Most of free endpaper torn off. *Includes bibliography of Trollope's main prose works.

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Wallace,Lew

BEN-HUR: a tale of the Christ.

London, Ward, Lock & Co. 1902 Plates (4) by S. H. Vedder. . Octavo blue ribbed cloth with pink onlay (tips worn) 465pp. Inscription on back of frontis dated 1902 + pencil ownership to dedication page. Paper tanned as usual but clean and tight. Endpapers with advertistments for "One of the most elaborate and expensive productions of drama ever given at the National Theatre" etc.

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Walpole, Hugh

MARADICK AT FORTY A Transition

London, Macmillan and Co. Pocket edition 1927 . Duodecimo plum cloth sine gilt (tips bumped bit marked) Top Edge Gilt viii +372pp first 3 leaves bit creased and a few spots to lower margin, three other leaves with similar spots. Pages 55/56 with marginal tear and a few tiny pricks and creases. Neat gift inscription to fly leaf.

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Weldon,Fay

HEART OF THE COUNTRY

London, Hutchinson 1st edition 1987 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (tips slightly rubbed) 199pp V.G+ in V.G jacket

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Wells, H.G. (1866-1946)

JOAN AND PETER & COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

London, Odhams Press 1933 from inscription Also includes Jimmy Goggles the God + Mr. Brisher's Treasure . Octavo red cloth with medallion impress of H.G. Wells (tips slightly worn) 504pp neat name on front endpaper & date July 1933 else a neat clean tight copy.

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Wells, H.G. (1866-1946)

LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM and MARRIAGE

London, Odhams Press Limited 1935 by inscription . Two Works in One volume octavo red cloth blindstamped portrait medallion (tips rubbed bit marked one corner bumped) 504pp. Name Margaret Merriman June 1935 to front fly leaf else V.G.

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Wells,H.G.

MEANWHILE the Picture of a Lady

London, Benn first edition 1927 . Octavo brown cloth (slightly marked & tips sl.rubbed) 287pgs EPs & last 3pp minor pale foxing else clean.

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Wessel,John

THIS FAR, NO FURTHER

London, Viking 1997 . PROOF COPY in Proof wraps (creases & minor stain to lower cover) 333pp last 50pages have marginal stain. *First book by this former bookseller - a crime novel.

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Whittier,John Greenleaf

THE BAY OF SEVEN ISLANDS, and other Poems.

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1883 Etching of Whittier with fascimile signature under tissue guard. . 174x106mm olive pictorial cloth gilt, seascape with title on gilt moon (tips sl.worn) list of author's books +half title +Frontis +Titlepage +85pp +16pp publisher's catalogue. Name on fly leaf. *American poetry.

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Wilder,Robert

FRUIT OF THE POPPY

London, Allen first edition 1965 . Octavo cloth in slightly torn dust jacket (tips bit rubbed/bumped) 67pp *Novel of U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics and their war against Mexican and American drug pushers and & syndicates

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Winter, J[ohn] S[trange] [pseudonym of Mrs. Henrietta Stannard]

BOOTLES BABY A Story of the Scarlet Lancers [bound with] HOUP-LA

London, Frederick Warne & Co. 1885] and 1892 Frontis, plates & illustrations to each volume by W. Ralston. . Two Volumes in One small octavo green cloth (tips worn but sound) 116pp and 116pp 2 titlepages the second dated 1892. Endpapers and a few pages at beginning & end with pale foxing else neat copy of these humorous novels of Regimental life.

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Wodehouse,P.G

THE CLICKING OF CUTHBERT

London, Herbert Jenkins 10th edition . 8vo green pictorial cloth in black silhoutte [corners sl.worn/1cm split to lower hinge and similar to head of spine] viii [includes halftitle, titlepage, dedication and "fore" [which is an amusing foreword alluding to his taking up of the sport of golf etc] +[2p=contents] + 256pp. The halftitle and the last text page are slightly tanned, all other pages are clean and bright,the front free endpaper has one name neatly crossed through and a second nzmd written below. Otherwise this is a clean neat crisp copy.

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Wodehouse,P.G

PSMITH IN THE CITY a Sequel to "Mike" … with twelve full page illustrations by T.M.R.Whitwell

London, Adam & Charles Black First edition 1910 illustrated by 12 full page plates printed one side only by T.m.R. Whitwell . 8vo blue pictorial cloth to cover and spine, spine with gilt title. Coloured cover shows Psmith being shouted at by his boss for his buffoonery and on the spine the young man is working on a ledger.(edges a bit rubbed/colored areas have some scratches/lower cover plain blue cloth with some damp marking but quite sound and tight) xi [includes halftitle, titlepage,dedication,contents etc} +{1p=blank] + 266pp + [2p=booklist for boys etc] inscriptions one of father the other of son to free endpaper, else clean neat crisp copy with all plates accounted for.

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