Harrier Martineau

The Playfellow the Crofton Boys. A Tale

London, Charles Knight, 1841. Leather. A scarce edition of The Crofton Boys. A Tale by Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876) an English social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. First edition. Martineau wrote thirty-five books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and, perhaps most controversial, a feminine perspective; she also translated various works from Auguste Comte. She earned enough to be supported entirely by her writing, a challenging feat for a woman in the Victorian era. In a half crushed morocco binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, sound but with slight wear to extremities and front board held by cords only. Front hinge tender, rear strained. Internally, text block firmly bound. Bright with only the odd spot and handling mark and foxing to endpapers only. Good Only . Ill.: None. Good Only .

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Buchzahl: LTH8-F-18

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction Novel Martineau Sociologist Novel None

Daphne du Maurier

The Parasites

London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Daphne du Maurier's novel concerning the Delaney family, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The Parasites (1949) is a novel by the notable English author Daphne du Maurier. It follows the Delaneys, a bohemian family, who lead complex and often scandalous lives. Du Maurier took inspiration from her time in the world of theatre  and from her own family life. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is smart but faded to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper remains mostly bright, with chipping to the head and tail of the spine, which has been amateurly repaired with tape. Sunning to the spine of the wraps, with a few marks to the front of the wraps. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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Buchzahl: 893M10

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Daphne du Maurier Novels English literature Novels Not Stated

Daphne du Maurier

The Progress of Julius

London, William Heinemann, 1933. First edition. Cloth. A first edition, first impression of Daphne du Maurier's chilling story of ambition. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. The third novel of the renowned English author Daphne du Maurier, The Progress of Julius (1933) tells the story of Julius Lévy, a quick-witted and ambitious man who has grown up in a peasant family on the banks of the Seine. This story unsettles and disturbs as we follow this sociopathic man on his path to the top - until his daughter, Gabriel, is born.6 pages publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart except for damp staining to the rear board and a small mark to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 893M11

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Daphne du Maurier Novels Mystery Gothic Novels Not Stated

The Brothers Mayhew

The Greatest Plague of Life

London, David Bogue, 1847. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of this curious work edited by the Mayhew brothers, in the very attractive calf binding of Sorrell of London. The first edition of this work.With twelve plates by George Cruikshank, collated complete, this extremely interesting work also includes the original cloth binding adhered to the rear endpages, allowing further authenticity to this definitive first edition example of Victorian literature. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Rebound calf binding with gilt detailing. Externally very smart, there is some minor wear to the joints and extremities only, with some strain to hinges. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are bright and clean throughout, aside from the odd instance of spotting. Near Fine . Ill.: George Cruikshank. Near Fine .

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Buchzahl: FIN4-A-4

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: mayhew brothers sorrell of london sorrell george cruishank sorrell of london hugh selbourne George Cruikshank

Suzanne McLeod

The Cold Kiss of Death

London, Gollancz, 2009. First edition. Paperback. A signed uncorrected proof copy of McLeod's supernatural fiction novel. Uncorrected proof copy. Signed by author to title page, with the date of 16/7/09.With proof copy leaflet loosely inserted to front of text. 'The Cold Kiss of Death' is a supernatural fantasy novel by Suzanne McLeod, which follows a woman who works for a supernatural website and is simultaneously being haunted by ghosts who want her help. Suzanne McLeod is an author who writes paranormal fantasy novels. Collated, complete. Proof copy in the original paper wraps. Externally, excellent, with no edgewear or marks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Author's dated signature to recto of title page. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .

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Buchzahl: 807D13

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: The Cold Kiss of Death paranormal fiction romance Suzanne McLeod paranormal fiction None

[Anna Meades]

The History of Cleanthes, an Englishman of the Highest Quality, and Celemene, the Illustrious Amazonian Princess: Interspersed with a Variety of Most Entertaining Incidents and Surprizing Turns of Fortune; and a Particular Account of That Famous Island, So Much Talk"D of, But Hitherto So Little Known.

London, J. Scott, 1757. First edition. Cloth. The exceedingly scarce first work of eighteenth century English novelist Anna Meades, detailing the interactions of an Englishman and Amazonian princess. The very scarce first edition of the first published work from English novelist Anna Meades, present here in two volumes. This is the first of two novels written by Meades and published anonymously, her works are very scarce in all editions.In her preface, Meades explains that she publishes this work not for 'the desire of applause, but merely for amusement', and that her 'reading has been both ancient and modern, as my Work is a Composition, founded upon both Plans&apos.Born in Hampshire, Meades was a correspondent of Samuel Richardson during the year of the publication of this work, and used the name 'Cleomira' when communicating with him. She had initially approached him with the request that he publish this work. He declined, but continued the correspondence, reading her novels and giving her comments and suggestions.Collated, with H11 and H12 lacking to volume I. ESTC reference no. T57442 Rebound in full cloth. Evidence of labels removed from spine tails. Boards clean and bright. Evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown of volume II. Internally, firmly bound. H11 and H12 are lacking to volume I. Tide marks to first and last few leaves of each volume. Pages otherwise generally clean, with the odd spot or mark. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 792F20

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Anna Meades Samuel Richardson The History of Sir William Harrington Amazonian Samuel Richardson Cleomira None

Lady Morgan

Florence Macarthy an Irish Tale

London, Henry Colburn, 1818. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of Lady Morgan's novel on the contemporary state of Irish social and political culture. Book label to the front pastedown of volume I, Grant & Bolton, booksellers Dublin. Known under the title 'Florence Macarthy' and 'Florence McCarthy&apos. Bound without half-titles. With the errata leaf to the rear of volume IV. This novel is written by Lady Morgan, who was best known for novels such as 'The Wild Irish Girl&apos. In contemporary circles, Lady Morgan was one of the most hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. Her most famous work brought her controversy due to the political nature of the content. 'Florence Macarthy' is also seen as Morgan taking revenge on Quarterly Review author John Wilson Croker who attacked her elaborate study of France under the Bourbon Restoration for praising the revolution.  In 'Florence Macarthy' a Quarterly reviewer, named Con Crawley, is insulted and caricatured.  In a contemporary half calf binding, with paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Split to the front joint of volume II, and loss to the leather at the head of spine. Loss to the head of spines to volumes I and IV. Patches of rubbing to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Small portion of spine loosely inserted to the books. Pages are generally bright. Occasional light spots to pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

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Buchzahl: 769L3

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Novel Novels Female Novelist Novels None

Lady Sydney [Owenson] Morgan

Woman; or Ida of Athens

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. First edition. Leather. A first edition of this novel from Victorian socialite, Lady Sydney Morgan. Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Owenson; 25 December 1781 – 14 April 1859), was an Irish novelist. She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She began her career with a precocious volume of poems. She collected Irish tunes, for which she composed the words, thus setting a fashion adopted with signal success by Thomas Moore. A reading of Germaine de Staël's novel Corinne (1807), set in Italy, convinced Owenson to write the novelized tract that Ida of Athens became. In her preface to it, she described Woman, or, Ida of Athens (1809) as an attempt to delineate perfected feminine character in its natural state and Greece as the perfect setting for doing so—although the final scenes (with Ida suddenly enriched) take place in London. In addition to its feminist concerns, the book includes long philosophical discussions on such Romantic topics as education, civil and religious freedom, and the moral influence of natural beauty. (ODNB) In four volumes Collated: Lacking pages 131-134 of the third volume. These pages were lacking at the time of rebinding. Rebound in sprinkled calf bindings. Externally, very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and quite clean, with just a few instances of light spotting. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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Buchzahl: EXP4-F-5

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Novels Victorian Thomas Moore Irish Victorian Women's Fiction Feminist None

Kate Murray

The Spirit of the House

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this fictional work regarding the imaginary 'Caldicott House' illustrated throughout. The first edition of the work. Very scarce, particularly with the vanishingly scarce dust wrapper. With thirteen colour plates, one monochrome plate, a folding plan and several vignette illustrations. Collated complete. Illustrated by Charles Paget Wade, an English architect and artist, who was a close friend of the author. A charming tale, detailing the fictional Caldicott House and its residents. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities. The occasional light mark to the boards. Dust wrapper is worn with significant loss particularly to the rear of the wrap. Handling marks to the wrap. Spotting to the reverse of the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with age toning to the extremities. Age toning to the half title. Minor closed tear to head of folding plate. The odd spot to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Charles Wade. Very Good Indeed/Fair.

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Buchzahl: 868Q2

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Charles Wade Caldicott Court Folding Plates Charles Paget Caldicott Court Charles Wade

Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen [Emily Owen]

The Heroines of History

London, G. Routledge & Co. 1858. Cloth. A smart new edition of this collection of writings on the heroines of history, with illustrations from Sir John Gilbert. New edition. Scarce work. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Collated complete. A collection of writings for the due appreciation of feminine influence in art, literature, and history. With chapters on Judith, Portia, Eleanor of Castile, Joan D'Arc, Mary Queen of Scots, and many others. Written by Emily Owen, an English composer, poet and author in the Victorian era. She was married to English scholar Octavius Freire Owen, and published as Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, an English artist, illustrator and engraver. In the original full blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Rear hinge just starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small handling mark. Minor spotting and light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated 1859. Very Good . Ill.: Sir John Gilbert. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 905T73

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Heroines History Owen Gilbert History Sir John Gilbert

Miss Owenson, Lady Morgan

The Princess and the Missionary

Paris, Baudry's European Library, 1835. Leather. Two scarce works of the Lady Morgan, Miss Owenson in a fine binding. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Two works bound as one. The Princess has been bound without a title page. The publication information has been taken from COPAC. This work is Baudry's European Library, the Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors, Vol. 71 published in 1835, although The Missionary has a separate title page dated 1834. The Missionary "is set in India and reflects two religious conflicts: that between the Franciscans and the Dominicans, and that between Christianity and Hinduism. Surpassing both conflicts is the supremacy of love, especially as embodied in Owenson's greatest heroine, the Hindu priestess Luxima, who dies to save her Franciscan missionary lover from the inquisition of the Dominicans" -ODNB. The Princess began "as a travel book" and is "set in newly independent Belgium" -ODNB. Lady Sydney Morgan, nee Owenson, d.1859, was a novelist and socialite. Bound in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration. There is some wear to the extremities, including some rubbing and edge wear, prominent to the spine. The binding is tight and firm. Internally the pages have some very light browning, with foxing. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: LTH8-E-15

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Travel Religion Novel Women's Fiction Religion None

H. May Poynter

A Fair Jacobite: A Tale of the Exiled Stuarts

London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1904 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce, first edition of this historical tale surrounding the exiled Stuarts, written by Henrietta May Poynter. First edition. Bound in the publisher's smart pictorial cloth. Written by English Victorian novelist, Henrietta May Poynter, who wrote a number of novels surrounding history and romance.'A Fair Jacobite' is a historical novel following the end of the Stuart dynasty, at a time when the royal Stuart family were exiled to France. While some characters are fictitious, the historical details for his novel were taken from Miss Strickland's 'Life of Queen Maria Beatrice' and from other memoirs of the time. Illustrated with a frontispiece and illustrated title page, in colour. With a prize inscription awarding the book to Dora Miller, from Bradbourne College, Sevenoaks. Bound in the publisher's pictorial cloth. Externally, excellent, with light shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine, and the odd mark. Front hinge is a touch strained, but holding firm. Ink inscription to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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Buchzahl: 901Q35

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: H. M. Poynter A Fair Jacobite Stuarts historical fiction A Fair Jacobite Not Stated

Olive Higgins Prouty

White Fawn

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. First edition. Cloth. A lovely and uncommon copy of the first of Prouty's popular Vale novels, in the very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974) was an American author, best known for her financial support of Sylvia Plath, and also her 1923 novel Stella Dallas. This work is the first novel of Prouty's popular Vale series, following Fabia Vale as she falls in love with Daniel Regan, against a background of class-conscious Boston society. It is an uncommon volume, in the even rarer dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally cloth is smart and bright, with just a couple of faint marks to the spine and rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is bright, with a little shelf wear to the front of the wrap. Some chipping to the head of the spine and to the upper extremities of the folds to the flaps. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good Indeed.

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Buchzahl: 873M4

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Romance novels Vale Olive Higgins Prouty American literature Vale Not Stated

Ouida [Maria Louise Rame]

Le Selve

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition. Leather. A first edition copy of this novella by the prolific author Maria Louise Ramé, under her pseudonym Ouida. The first edition of this uncommon work in a quarter calf binding with cloth boards. Binder's stamp of Birdsall & Son, Northampton, to the front paste down. Bookplate of the English Army officer and peer Edward George Bootle-Wilbraham, 2nd Earl of Lathom (1864-1910) to the front paste down. Maria Louise Ramé (1839-1908), known by the pseudonym Ouida, was a successful English novelist. She wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. In this novella, a Northern European dissident is exiled to an Italian community of thieves and squatters, in which he finds companionship with a local peasant woman. In a quarter calf binding. Externally generally smart, though faded to the boards, with rubbing to the joints and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 886M8

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Novella Maria Louise Rame Ouida Maria Louise Rame Not Stated

Edith Rickert

The Reaper

London, Edward Arnold, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce publisher's file copy of this work by medieval scholar Edith Rickert. The first edition and very scarce publisher's file copy of this work (inscribed no. 27985). In the publisher's original cloth binding.With leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.This work follows the wonderfully odd characters of an island town named Snarravoe. The narrator speaks of untold tales of figures such as Eric the Elder and Eric the Younger, Osla, Magnie the Skipper and Meggy Betty.As well as her literary work of novels, short stories, poems and translations, Rickert had a reputable career as a cryptographer for the government during World War I. Fascinatingly, she was mainly responsible for the arrest of one of the most famous of the German spies, Pablo Waberski.  In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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Buchzahl: 904Y1

Katalog: Women's Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: The Reaper Edith Rickert File copy Edith Rickert None