Grey,Zane

MYSTERIOUS RIDER a novel by Zane Grey

London, Harper & Bros./Musson Book Co. Canada 1st edition later impression 1921 Frontispiece By Frank Tenney Johnson . Octavo green pictorial cloth (tips rubbed/slight wear to foot of spine) 336p+ list of Grey's books to that date. 1st Canadian edition.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Western fiction

Guerin,Arsene

LE ROMAN D'UNE LAIDE

Paris, Gedalge & Cie 1900s) Illustrated by Gerard Tantet . 2 Parts in One volume. Octavo red half cloth with marbled sided (spine faded/splits to hinge but covers firmly attached/tips worn/some sunning) All Edges Gilt 155pp Prize bookplate on FEP dated 1909. *French novel where beauty is not everything.

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Sonstige Stichworte: French moral romantic novel

Gunnarsson,Gunnar

ADVENT IM HOCHGEBIRGE Erzahlung

Basel Switzerland, Gute Schriften 1960 . Duodecimo patterned boards with cover and spine title labels (tips sl.rubbed) 62pp. Unveranderter Nachdruck von Reclams Universal-Bibliotheck No.7328. Minor pale foxing/tanning towards edges. Very clean and tight. *Born in Ostisland of peasant stock he settled in Copenhagen in about 1907 but never forgetting his native traditions and legends of his home.

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Sonstige Stichworte: moral tale German

Gunter,Archibald Clavering

MR. POTTER OF TEXAS a novel

London, Routledge&Sons 1st U.K.edition 1888 . YELLOWBACK octavo pictorial boards lower cover Pears Soap advert. (tips worn & rubbed/paperloss to foot of spine/ hinge-paper worn) 278pp+catal. Lacks FEP else G+

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Hale, Lionel

A FLEECE OF LAMBS a novel

London, Jonathan Cape 1961 . Octavo navy boards spine brightly silver titled (tips bit rubbed) 223pp gift inscription & partly removed sailing ship ownership label Edna .. Crisp, unmarked bright copy. *Fiction about the Lamb family of London, a comedy with a serious purpose but without undue gravity. As it says The Lambs come through.

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O'Hara, John

ELIZABETH APPLETON

London, Cresset Press first UK Edition 1963 Dust jacket by Hans Tisdall. . Octavo boards in slightly edge-torn dust jacket (without loss) 278pp V.G.

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Hardcastle,Michael

SNOOKERED!

London, Blackie & Son Ltd. 1st edition first printing 1987 . Octavo boards in dust jacket (slight shelf rubbed) 80pp. *Novel of snooker player who makes an enemy of the owner of the local snooker club who makes sure he has nowhere else to play. Tense novel for snooker enthusiasts.

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Hardy,Thomas (illustrated by Gordon Beningfield)

DARKLING THRUSH and other Poems

London, Penguin/Viking books 1st first edition 1985 Color & a few pencil illustrations by Gordon Beningfield . Oblong octavo boards in price clipped dust jacket 125pp Name to margin of Titlepage V.G+ in V.G jacket

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Hewson,J. James

RANK DOGGEREL: being a little laughter with a Sediment of Sentiment.

London, Simpkin,Marshall,Hamilton,Kent & Co 1892 Illustrated by R. Talbot Kelly (R.B.A.) . Octavo blue-green cloth (tips sl.worn/rubbed) 64pp Endpapers and the first and last few pages lightly foxed else clean and tight. Bookplate of Charles Gatehouse Westwood. Quite scarce.

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Sonstige Stichworte: humor illustrated poetry verse ballad

Heym,Stefan Author of The Crusaders

THE EYES OF REASON

London, Cassell & Company 1st edition 1952 . Octavo blue cloth (spotting to cloth/small split to top of lower hinge) 472pp. A neat clean tight copy of this novel about Czechoslovakia.

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Hocking, Mary

LOOK, STRANGER

London, Chatto & Windus 1979 Dust jacket by Angelica Garnett. . Octavo green & black speckled boards in dust jacket (boards V.G jacket with tiny nick to head of spine & 2 tears repaired with white paper tape to inside without loss) 237pp ex libary with circular stamp to rear of titlepage only. No other library signs and hardly any signs of use except that front flap is discolored to inner edge where tape removed and free endpaper neatly torn out.

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Hood,Thomas

POEMS OF WIT AND HUMOUR by Thomas Hood

London, Edward Moxon 5th edition 1853 . Octavo olive ribbed cloth decoratively blindstamped and spine with gilt titling (slightly marked/tips bit worn & spine ends chipped with minimal loss of cloth/spine sunned) half title present viii +282pp oval (price?) label removed from pastedown. Publisher's book list preceeds fly leaf. 2 oval blindstamps of Whitefield Solicitors and 2 name stamps H.F. Whitefield to preliminaries. Some 30 poems of a longer narrative type by Hood.

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Huxley,Aldous author of "The Burning Wheel"

DEFEAT OF YOUTH & OTHER POEMS, The

Oxford, Blackwell 1918 . (Limited to 250 copies) green decorated yapp-edged card covers with paper label (edges rubbed and browned spine splitting but sound label foxed sl.bumped) (49pp)+catal. EPs browned scattered foxing to a few pages otherwise clean and printed on heavy quality paper. His third published work.

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Ingoldsby, Thomas (Richard H. Barham)

THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or Mirth and Marvels First Series, Second Series, Third Series

London, Richard Bentley 1st 2nd 3rd series 5th edition 1852 Plates (18 + TPs) by George Cruikshank, Leech & Buss + head & tailpieces and a few text illustrations . Three Volumes octavo original green blindstamped cloth spines pictorially gilt (tips worn/slightly bumped and head of spines slightly frayed/torn) xi+338pp +appendix vii+288pp vi+(2)+364pp Each volume has a 2 color etched titlepage by Gwilt (vol.1) Cook (vols 2&3) + 18 plates uniformly foxed/tanned many with ghosts, devils, etc. as the stories contain humorous ghostly and devilish legends. Each volume having the nice etched bookplate of Charles Gatehouse Westwood. A nice set with the tipped in Publisher's advert slip for Charles E Scott's The Baltic, The Black Sea and The Crimea "Now Ready".

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Sonstige Stichworte: humor legends ghosts superstition devils

Innes,Michael

HARE SITTING UP

London, Gollancz first edition 1959 . Octavo boards in dust jacket 192pp narrow strip cut from top of FEP & paper removed from FEP & sm.splash mark to first opening else V.G in V.G jacket

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Sonstige Stichworte: crime fiction first edition