Gammer Gurton's Garland (London: Chapman & Hall, circa 1890). Paperback. Very good condition. Collection of nursery rhymes (including 'Simple Simon,' 'Old Mother Hubbard' and other classics) first published in 1783.
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Ref. no. 121

John Brougham, A Message From the Sea: A Drama in Four Acts, Founded on the Charles Dickens Tale of That Name (London: John Dicks, circa 1880). Paperback. Outer wrapper missing. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 122

G.A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone; Or Through (London: Routledge, circa 1870). Unintentionally funny 'muscular' novel with its squire public school hero. Ex library in later binding, very good condition.
Ref. no. 123

Henry Seton Merriman, Barlasch of the Guard (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1903). Tauchnitz edition in a Tauchnitz binding. Foxing to edges, very good condition.
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Ref. no. 124

William Leman Rede, Pickwick: A Farce in Three Acts Adapted From the Celebrated Work of That Name by Charles Dickens (London: John Dicks, circa 1880). Paperback. Lacks outer wrappers, front page has strip of paper pasted on illustration. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 125

Washington Irving, Salmagundi; Or. The Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others (Routledge: London, 1850). Ex library in later binding. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 126

James Grant, Philip Rollo; or, The Scottish Musketeers (London: Routledge, 1860). First published in 1854. Rebound in contemporary half leather and marbled boards, some rubbing to edges, boards and spine, title label missing from spine. Good condition.
Ref. no. 127

Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life (London: Collins, 1987). A revised and updated edition of Edel's acclaimed biography, abridged from the five volume edition. Numerous illustrations, and a very large book at 740pp. Previous owner's bookplate, top edge dusty. Very good condition.
Ref. no. 128

Ouida, Chandos (London: Chatto & Windus, 1896). Yellowback edition. Spine chipped & some rubbing, advert pages browned, good condition.
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Ref. no. 129

E.C. Bentley, Trent's Last Case (London: Nelson, 1913). 4th edition. Influential detective novel. Cloth rubbed & marked, colour printed illustration at frontis, good condition.
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Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass : Recollections of Alice and Her Family (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982). Biography of Alice Liddell & her family, during & after her friendship with Lewis Carroll. Illustrated with pictures from the Liddell archive. Hardback. Previous owner's bookplate, very good condition.
Ref. no. 131

Mary Bennett, The Canadian Girl; Or, The Pirate of the Lakes (London: W. Nicholson & Sons, circa 1890). Illustrated frontis. Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 135

Countess of Blessington (Editor), Heath's Book of Beauty for 1845 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman's, 1845). Large format giftbook bound in the original silk binding. Steel engravings of aristocratic beauties and fiction, poems etc. All edges gilt. Some loss of silk near spine area, foxing to plate borders, but still a lovely copy in very good condition.
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Ref. no. 136

W.B. Maxwell, The Concave Mirror (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1931). Maxwell was the novelist son of Braddon. 2 inch tear to front cover, dated June 1931. Sound reading copy.
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Large Selection of Tauchnitz Editions: 108 volumes published by Tauchnitz of Leipzig (including a few by their successor Albatross) in paperback, original hardback bindings or contemporary hardback editions. Most are in good to very good condition - those which are not are mentioned in the full description. UK only on this item because of weight. Click on image for more pictures and complete listing of titles and volume numbers.
Ref. no. 138

Walter Besant, All Sorts and Conditions of Men (London: Chatto and Windus, 1897). Paperback. Back cover missing, chips to front. Reading copy.
Ref. no. 140

The Oriental Sporting Magazine (Calcutta, India: Calcutta Central Press Company, 1868). Volume I, New Series. Volume contains issues July - December 1868. Racing, hunting, shooting etc. in Colonial India. Scarce. Half leather binding. Front free endpaper missing, contemporary ownership signature, spine rubbed, ancient wormhole to margin of approx. 10 pages. Good condition. Scarce.
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Ref. no. 141

Douglas Jerrold, St. Giles and St. James (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1851). Blindstamped cloth, bookplate of Frank Staff, front inner cracked but firm. Good condition.
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Ref. no. 143

John Strange Winter (pseudonym of Henrietta Stannard), The Peacemakers (London: F. V, White, 1898; 3rd edition). Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 145

John Strange Winter (pseudonym of Henrietta Stannard), A Magnificent Young Man (London: F. V. White, 1895). Endpapers browned, chip to top of front free endpaper. Very good condition.
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Ref. no. 146

John Strange Winter (pseudonym of Henrietta Stannard), Everybody's Favourite (London: F. V. White, 1898; 5th edition). Endpapers browned with a couple of chips, gold lettering tarnished, very good condition.
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Ref. no. 149

John Strange Winter (pseudonym of Henrietta Stannard), A Summer Jaunt (London: F. V. White, 1899; 2nd edition). Gold lettering tarnished, very good condition.
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Ref. no. 150