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Voyage Ou IL Vous Plaira

Alfred de Musset; P. -J. Stahl · 1843

£195.00 (€233.56 | $262.29 | ¥41,441)

Paris, J. Hetzel, 1843 . First edition. Leather. Handsomely bound and beautifully illustrated with plates from Tony Johannot, this is the first edition of Musset and Stahl's work of romantic fantasy fiction. In the original French.  A first edition. Illustrated with a fro...

Studies in Two Literatures

Arthur Symons · 1897

£98.00 (€117.38 | $131.82 | ¥20,827)

London, Leonard Smithers, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A smart and uncommon first edition, in which poet, critic, editor and translator Arthur Symons attempts to encapsulate some of the most prominent writers throughout history. An uncommon first edition. Bound in publisher&apo...

A Memoir of William Bagshawe (of Ford Hall)

William H. G. Bagshawe · 1887

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1887. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition biography of writer and minister William Bagshawe or Bagshaw, illustrated, and once owned by a member of Abney Hall's Watts family. A very scarce first edition biography. Bound in publish...

Poems

John Wilson · 1825

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1825. First edition. Leather. A new and complete edition of the poems of the Edinburgh Romantic poet John Wilson, bound in full decorative contemporary calf. A new edition of Poems, the scarce anthology of a complete collection by the prolific Edi...

The Works of Hannah More a New Edition with Additions and Corrections

Hannah More · 1830

£1,100.00 (€1,317.51 | $1,479.57 | ¥233,771)

London, T Cadell, 1830. Leather. The complete works of Hannah More in eight volumes. In a smart diced calf binding. Complete in eleven volumes, this is the 'New Edition' of More's works. Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist. She wrote a...

Hilary St. Ives a Novel

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1870

£495.00 (€592.88 | $665.81 | ¥105,197)

London , Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition. Cloth. Hilary St. Ives is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth first published in 1870. First edition in book form. In three volumes complete. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 - 1882) was an English historical novelist. Ainswort...

The Select Works of Lawrence Sterne in Four Volumes

Lawrence Sterne · 1818

£300.00 (€359.32 | $403.52 | ¥63,756)

London , J.Bumpus, 1818. Leather. A four volume set of selected works by Lawrence Sterne. With the life of the author. Lawrence [Laurence] Sterne was an Anglo Irish novelist best known for his novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Sterne was also an Anglican clergyma...

Redgauntlet a Tale of the Eighteenth Century

Sir Walter Scott · 1824

£225.00 (€269.49 | $302.64 | ¥47,817)

Edinburgh and London, Archibald Constable and Co and Hurst, Robinson and Co, 1824. First edition. Hardback. A first edition of this historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, in the publisher's original boards. Complete in three volumes with all three half title present. Two l...

The Red Rover a Tale

James Fenimore Cooper · 1828

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

London , Henry Colburn, 1828. Cloth. The scarce second edition of this novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The Red Rover is a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper originally published in Paris on November 27, 1827. It was published in London 3 days later on November 30, ...

Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces by Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth · 1825

£595.00 (€712.65 | $800.31 | ¥126,449)

London , Printed for R. Hunter et al, 1825. Leather. An uncommon complete set of Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces by Maria Edgeworth with vignette title pages to each volumes. In fourteen volumes complete. Contents are as follows: Volume I: Castle Rackrent; Essay on Irish Bulls ...

Preston Fight, or the Insurrection of 1715

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1875

£895.00 (€1,071.97 | $1,203.83 | ¥190,205)

London, Tinsley Brothers, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this historical novel, which tells the story of the Jacobite uprising and the siege of Preston. This is a late novel by William Ainsworth, who published his first work in 1834. He had intended to b...

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr Abraham Adams

Henry Fielding · 1929

£79.99 (€95.81 | $107.59 | ¥16,999)

London, John Lane, 1929. Cloth. An illustrated edition of Henry Fielding's first full-length novel comic novel. Published in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from Lon...

Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend

Robert James Waller · 1993

£53.00 (€63.48 | $71.29 | ¥11,264)

The United States of America, Warner Books, 1993. First edition. Cloth. A first printing of Waller's novel 'Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend&apos. Robert James Waller (1939) is an American author best known for 'The Bridges of Madison County', an enormously success...

The Vicar of Wakefield

Oliver Goldsmith; prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury · 1886

£49.99 (€59.87 | $67.24 | ¥10,624)

London, John C Nimmo, 1886. Leather. A colour illustrated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield, a novel by Oliver Goldsmith. With one hundred and fourteen coloured illustrations by Poinson. With a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. The Vicar of Wakefield was written in 1761 a...

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne Written by Himself

W. M. Thackeray · 1901

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

London, James Nisbet & Co. 1901. Leather. An attractively bound near fine copy of this historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In a handsome prize binding, with a gilt crest to the front board, and a presentation bookplate to the front pastedown of Leamington Municipa...

The Adventures of Roderick Random Volumes I & II

Tobias Smollett · 1780

£125.00 (€149.72 | $168.13 | ¥26,565)

London, W. Strahan, J. Rivington & Sons, 1780. Leather. An uncommon illustrated copy of this novel by Tobias Smollett. Uncommon. Complete in 2 volumes bound in one. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) was a Scottish poet and author, best known for his picaresque novels, which influenc...

The Wanderings of Tom Starboard or, the Life of a Sailor

Isabella Jane Towers · 1830

£140.00 (€167.68 | $188.31 | ¥29,753)

London, John Harris, 1830. Leather. An illustrated copy of this work by Isabella Towers. A work of fiction following Tom Starboard, a sailor who found himself voyaging throughout Asia and the Pacific, this work was a delight amongst the young readership of its time. With a bea...

Modern Society

Catherine Sinclair · 1838

£39.99 (€47.90 | $53.79 | ¥8,499)

London, William White and Co, 1838. Leather. A copy of 'Modern Society; or The March of Intellect, the Conclusion of Modern Accomplishments', a study of female education, by Catherine Sinclair, 'Daughter of the late Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart&apos....

Age without Pity

John Prebble · 1950

£90.00 (€107.80 | $121.06 | ¥19,127)

New York, Henry Hold and Company, 1950. First edition. Leather. The first American edition of John Prebble's Age Without Pity. The author's copy with his signature to the title page. First edition, first printing of the American edition of this novel. John Prebble wa...

The History of Little Henry and His Bearer

Mary Martha Sherwood · 1829

£99.99 (€119.76 | $134.49 | ¥21,250)

London, F Houlston and Son, 1829. Leather. A nice copy of Mary Martha Sherwood's popular childrens' book. Twenty-Fifth Edition. With frontispiece and additional illustrated title. The History of Little Henry and his Bearer (1814) was written by Mary Martha Sherwood. ...