[SURTEES, R.S].

"Ask Mamma" or The Richest Commoner in England. (Illustrated by John Leech). Jorrocks Edition.

Bath: George Bayntun, 1926. Jorrocks Edition. Pp.x/425, coloured frontispiece + 19 full page wood engravings and many further wood engravings in the text, a couple of spots to endpapers. Blue illustrated cloth with gilt title to spine, slightly rubbed with small bumps to corners. G+.

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Book number: 42635

Catalogue: Fiction: : General

Keywords: Surtees Ask Mamma Richest Commoner England John Leech Illustrated Jorrocks Edition Humour Horses Comic Fiction 43982 Fiction: : General

[SURTEES, R.S].

Handley Cross. or Mr Jorrocks's Hunt. (with illustrations by John Leech).

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd, nd. (c.1899). A great comic character, on a par with the creations of Dickens, Jorrocks is a self made Cockney grocer with a penchant for fox hunting. This Rabelaisian novel recounts his muddling adventures as an amateur huntsman who comes to the up and coming spa town of Handley Cross to take over its pack of hounds for a season, having been pinpointed for the task on account of his wealth and the fame of his exploits out hunting with 'the Surrey'. 22.5cms x 15cms x 5cms. Pp.xvi/578, coloured illustration to title page, 17 coloured plates + many full page steel engravings and more engravings on wood by John Leech, gift message to front free endpaper, endpapers tanned. Brightred gilt decorated cloth, gilt illustrated title to front and spine, small chip to base of spine. VG.

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Book number: 49298

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Keywords: Surtees Handley Cross Mr Jorrocks Hunt Illustrated John Leech Fox Hunting Horses Hounds Fiction Novel Humour 51031 Fiction

[ DEFOE, DANIEL ]

The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, Of York Mariner. With An Account Of His Travels Round Three Parts Of The Globe. With Illustrations By Thomas Stothard, R.A. Engraved By Charles Heath .

London: W. Kent And Co. 86, Fleet Street, 1858 . 0. A very good full leather binding. 8vo. pp.620. 7.75" x 5.5" x 1.75" (20cm x 14cm x 4.8cm) . Tan calf over bevelled boards, edges bumped and boards lightly soiled. Carefully rebacked at some time in the past. Smooth spine with gilt banding and old crimson leather title label: "Robinson Crusoe". Marbled page edges and matching endpapers. Small armorial bookplate to verso of the front board: "Sir Frederick Milner, 22, Pont Street, London, S.W." Also: Inked dedication to front free-endpaper - "William Mordaunt Milner from his friend John de Grey. Eton, Election MDCCCLXVI." Clear text throughout well illustrated with 8 full-page engravings,drawn by 'T. Stothard R.A.'; Engraved by 'C. Heath'. VG. ** "Sir Frederick George Milner, 7th Baronet, GCVO PC (7 November 1849 – 8 June 1931) was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1883 to 1885, and from 1890 to 1906. Milner was born on 7 November 1849, the second son of William Mordaunt Edward Milner (born 20 June 1820 at Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, died 1867 at age 46), the fifth baronet and his wife Lady Georgiana Anne Lumley (born c 1820 at Tickhill Castle, died 2 February 1877). Milner's father was the Member of Parliament for York between 1848 and 1857. Milner became the 7th baronet in 1880, after the death of his father and his older brother, the 6th baronet, Sir William Mordaunt Milner at the age of 31 (unmarried, no issue). Frederick Milner was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.." - See Wikipedia . *** "Sir William Mordaunt Edward Milner, 5th Baronet (20 June 1820 – 12 February 1867) was a Whig politician. Born and baptised in Bolton Percy, Yorkshire, Milner was the son of William Mordaunt Sturt Milner and Harriet Elizabeth née Cavendish-Bentinck, daughter of Lord Edward Bentinck and Elizabeth Cumberland. He married Lady Georgiana Anne Lumley—daughter of Frederick Lumley-Savile and Charlotte Mary Beresford—in 1844, and they had at least seven children: Edith Harriet (1845–1921); Evelyn Selina (c. 1847–1900); William Mordaunt (1848–1880); Frederick George (1849–1931); Granville Henry (1852–1911); Dudley Francis (1854–1882); and Edward Carolus (1858–1918). Milner was first elected Whig MP for City of York at a by-election in 1848—caused by the death of Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke—and held the seat until 1857, when he did not seek re-election. Milner succeeded to the Baronetcy of Nun Appleton Hall on 24 March 1855 upon the death of William Mordaunt Sturt Milner. Upon his own death in 1867, the title was inherited by William Mordaunt Milner." - see Wikipedia **** "Extract from "Visitation of England and Wales: Vol. 16" by Frederick Arthur Crisp (1909) . John Augustus de Grey, born in Arlington Street, London, 21 March 1849, baptised at St. George's, Hanover Square, London; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculated Michaelmas Term, 1868, B.A. 1872; a Student of the Inner Temple 4 February 1870, called to the Bar 30 April 1874; appointed Recorder of Sudbury 1896, and of king's Lynn 1897-1905; J.P. for co. Suffolk, and for London and home counties 1905; Metropolitan Police Magistrate, South-Western police Court, from 1905; Chairman of East Suffolk Quarter Sessions.

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Book number: 48602

Catalogue: Fiction: : 19th Century

Keywords: 50043 W. Kent and Co Robinson Crusoe Sir Frederick Milner Sir William Mordaunt Milner Fiction: : 19th Century

[ROBERTS, MARGARET].

Niccolina Niccolini.

London: Gardner, Darton & Co, nd. (c.1897). By the author of 'Mademoiselle Mori', 'Atelier Du Lys', 'The Secret of Madame De Monlac', etc. Ex convent library. Pp.10, minor spotting mainly affecting preliminary pages and closed page edges,endpapers browned, armorial bookplate of Convent of the Immaculate Conception OSF Bocking Essex to inside front board. Dark gree cloth with light green line decoration and gilt title to front and spine. G+.

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Book number: 43831

Catalogue: Fiction: : Victorian

Keywords: Margaret Roberts Niccolina Niccolini Fiction Novel 45166 Fiction: : Victorian

[SERGEANT, ADELINE].

Reuben Touchett's Granddaughter. A Temperance Tale.

London: Religious Tract Society, nd. (c.1883). Victorian moral story of the evils of alcohol and importance of temperance. Pp.160/16(publisher's catalogue with several illustrations), black & white frontispiece plus other plates and vignette illustrations, presentation bookplate to front free endpaper has some foxing. Grey illustrated boards, gilt title to front and spine. VG.

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Book number: 50784

Catalogue: Fiction: : Victorian

Keywords: Adeline Sergeant Reuben Touchett Granddaughter Grandaughter Temperance Victorian Fiction Moral Story 52219 Fiction: : Victorian

ADAMS, RICHARD.

Watership Down.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. 0140306013. "A saga about a motley band of rabbits who desert their ancient warren, and set out on an epic search for a new home." Pp. 478. Pages toned. Paperback, slight sunning to spine, a few minor creases to covers. G.

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Book number: 12126

Catalogue: Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Adams Watership Juvenile Fiction Rabbits Children 49317 Childrens Fiction

ADAMS, RICHARD.

Watership Down.

London: Allen Lane / Kestrel Books, 1982. 0713915137. First in this edition, published ten years after the original. Pp.478, owner's name to inside front board, a few spots to closed page edges not affecting pages internally. Dark green cloth. Dustwrapper (illustrated by Pauline Baynes) is price-clipped and has sunning to spine, creasing and small chip to top of spine and 2cm vertical tear to top rear corner at fold. Scarce in this edition. VG/G+.

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Book number: 45765

Catalogue: Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Richard Adams Watership Down Children Fiction Rabbits Pauline Baynes 47317 Childrens Fiction

ALINGTON, ADRIAN.

The Boy King. The Story of an Adventure.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1935. 1st edition. Tales of Action. No.VI. Pp.256, colour frontispiece + 8 black & white plates by H.R.Millar, some minor spotting mainly affecting closed page edges. Purple cloth, rubbed with slight fading to spine. G+.** Adrian Alington (1895-1958) was a crime writer, and author of The Amazing Test Match Crime, which was inspired by his years playing County Cricket for Oxfordshire during the 1920s. He also wrote and adapted his own novels for screen and television during the 1950s.

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Book number: 48652

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Adrian Alington Boy King Adventure Tales of Action Fiction 50090 Fiction

ALLENDE, ISABEL.

Retrato En Sepia. (Portrait in Sepia).(Signed).

Madrid: Areté, 2001. 8401341558. 12th edition. Spanish edition. A sequel to Allende's 'Daughter of Fortune' as it follows Eliza Sommers' grand-daughter - Aurora del Valle..War and history are important in this novel; Allende has confided she always does thorough historical research for her novels for accuracy. Also, she describes the ultra conservative characteristics of Chilean society at that time".(Wiki). Pp.345, inscribed by the author to half-title page. Black cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Dustwrapper has removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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Book number: 37708

Catalogue: Fiction: : Spanish

Keywords: Isabel Allende Signed Retrato en Sepia Spanish Language Aurora Del Valle Sommers Feminism War History Love 34935 Fiction: : Spanish

ALLINGHAM, MARGERY.

Look To The Lady.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950. 1st Penguin edition. Albert Campion rescues Val Gyrth from the streets of London, to help him save a family heirloom, the Gyrth Chalice, from a band of devious criminals. In Suffolk, he reunites the son with his family, but soon one of them is found dead, and preventing the theft of the chalice must be combined with solving the mysterious death. Pp.279/6 (publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, toning to spine and edges, small tear to base of spine. Scarce. Good.

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Book number: 49330

Catalogue: Fiction: : Crime

Keywords: Margery Allingham Look to the Lady Mystery Crime Fiction Albert Campion 51072 Fiction: : Crime

ALMEDINGEN, E.M.

The Scarlet Goose.

USA: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. 1st ed. Fiction. Captures the dramatic conflict of a break with tradition in this story of a young Renaissance artist. Pp. 306/1Biography. Scarlet cloth, illustrated d/w, slight rubbing to edges and cover. VG/G.

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Book number: 10627

Catalogue: Fiction: : General

Keywords: Almedingen Scarlet Goose Fiction Renaissance Artist A3659 Fiction: : General

AMES, M.E.

Abra of Poictiers: A Story of the Days of S.Hilary.

London: James Nisbet & Co, 1900. 0. 1st edition. Historical fiction account of the life of the fourth century bishop and Early Church Father, St.Hilary. Pp.x/189, endpapers browned. Green cloth, publishers 'file copy' label to front, spine slightly rubbed. VG.

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Book number: 34223

Catalogue: Fiction: : General

Keywords: Ames Abra Poictiers Story Days S Hilary Religious Historical Fiction Early Church Father 34587 Fiction: : General

AMIS, KINGSLEY.

Collected Short Stories.

London: Hutchinson, 1980. 1st ed. "Kingsley Amis's 'Collected Short Stories' contains almost everything that he has published in that genre." Pp. 303, owner's name to fep. Yellow cloth, d/w has sunning to spine and lower front wrap. G+/G+.

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Book number: 22926

Catalogue: Fiction: : General

Keywords: Amis Collected Short Stories A19545 Fiction: : General

ANDERSEN, HANS. (TRANSLATED BY NAOMI LEWIS).

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales.

Harmondsworth: Penguin. 1994 (rep). "This selection of Andersen's fairy tales includes his best-known and most-loved stories". Pp 194. Some b/w illustrations. P/b. Illustrated cover. VG.

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Book number: 18718

Catalogue: Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Andersen Juvenile Fiction Thumbelina Snow Queen Little Mermaid A13758 Childrens Fiction

ANDERSEN, HANS.

The Snow Queen. (Illustrated by Pauline Hohly).

London: Rylee Ltd, nd. (c.1969). A Fairy Tale in Seven Stories. 32cms x 24cms. Unpaginated. Illustrated in colour throughout by Pauline Hohly. Illustrated laminated boards, some edge wear, stain to lower front and rear corners, bump to lower rear corner. G+.

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Book number: 50062

Catalogue: Childrens Fiction

Keywords: Hans Andersen Snow Queen Illustrated Pauline Hohly Children Fiction Fairy Tale 51580 Childrens Fiction