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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin. 1863 Ruskin, John. Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin. Smith Elder. 1863. 8vo. Contemporary full tree calf, gilt border, decorative edges and dentils. 5 raised bands, gilt decoration in each compartment, except calf gilt title piece in 2. All edges gilt. Marble end papers. Tissue guarded portrait frontis, with some foxing, title, publishers ads, contents [v] - vii, pp 440. The book includes Ruskin's writings relating to Scenes of Travel, Characteristics of Nature, Paintings and Painters, Architecture and Sculpture, Ethical matters. A fine book in all aspects.		Click this link for more details
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Lyrics From The Song-Books Of The Elizabethan Age, A.H. Bullen, 1887 Bullen, A.H., Lyrics From The Song-Books Of The Elizabethan Age. London, John C Nimmo, 1887. 8vo. Limited Large paper Edition. Number 40 of 250. Half calf over tan buckram. Gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Decorative bookplate on front pastedown. Pp200. Flyleaves show a little discolouration from contact with boards. All pages bright and clean.		Click this link for more details
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Gaston De Latour, Walter Pater, 1896 Pater, Walter. Gaston De Latour. An Unfinished Romance, Prepared for the press by Charles L Shadwell. London, Macmillan and Co. 1896. 8vo. Full modelled tan morrocco with Arts and Crafts design in a style similar to that developed by the Guild of Women Bookbinders. Top edge gilt. Hand printed endpapers with bookplate. Half title, title, preface v-vii, pp200. A little light staining on binding. All pages bright and clean within a unique, attractive binding.		Click this link for more details
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Daniel Deronda, George Eliot, 1876 Eliot, George : Daniel Deronda. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. 1876. First edition. Four volumes, octavo, size approx 185mm x 135mm. [2], 367, [1, blank]; [2], 364; [4], 393, [1, blank]; [4], 367, [1, blank] pp. Contemporary quarter-calf on marbled boards. Raised bands, lacking labels to spine though titles are blind stamped. Edges a little bumped. Slight age tone to page edges and light foxing to end papers. Page folded on Vol 1 , Top of fep folded on Vol 2, Pencil marks near front on Vol 3, Loose pages starting in Vol 4. Lacks adverts. Erratum slip in volume II. A good, attractive set of books.		Click this link for more details
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A Gentleman of France. Stanley Weyman. 1894 Weyman, Stanley. A Gentleman of France being the Memoirs of Gaston De Bonne Sieur De Marsac. London, Longmans, 1984. Printed from American Plates at the Aberdeen University Press. 8vo, Blue green cloth on bevelled boards with gilt title to front and spine. PP 412, pp Publishers Ads 24. In bright and clean order throughout.
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George's Mother. Stephen Crane. 1896 Crane, Stephen, George’s Mother. London and new York, Edward Arnold, 1896, Small 8vo 120mm x 180mm. Blue cloth with Light grey titles to front and spine. Pp185, pp6 publishers adverts. Binding a little shelf worn and bumped, all pages a little age toned to edges, otherwise bright and clean throughout. Published in the year he met his lifelong partner Cora Taylor this work is an example of Crane’s use of realism to expose social ills. Much comment had been made to this work and that of the life of his mother and brother. A good book from this writer who was to die some 4 years later at 28 years of age.
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Active Service. Stephen Crane. 1899 Crane, Stephen. Active Service. London, William Heinemann, 1899. First English Edition pp316, pp32 publishers adverts. Buff cloth with two colour woodblock design by William Nicholson to front back and spine. Binding is a little age toned and bumped. End free end paper removed. Pages rough cut and clean. Active Service published in 1899 is based on the Greco-Turkish War. In the same year Crane returned to Cuba, to cover the Spanish-American War, but due to poor health returned to England. Crane died on June 5, 1900 in Germany. Active Service is his last book to be published in his very short lifetime.
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The Open Boat. Stephen Crane. 1898 Crane, Stephen. The Open Boat And Other Stories. London, William Heinemann, 1898. First English Edition, published simultaneously with the American edition 8vo, pp301, 2 pp Crane adverts, plus 32 pp publishers adverts. Buff cloth with two colour woodblock design by William Nicholson to front back and spine. Comprises of Part 1 Minor Conflicts including The Open boat and 7 other stories and Part 2 The Midnight Sketches of 9 stories, a total of seventeen tales. The Midnight Sketches were not included in the American edition. Binding is a little age toned and bumped. Pages rough cut and clean. A good edition for any Stephen Crane reader or William Nicholson collector.
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Barrack Room Ballards and Other Verses.Rudyard Kipling. 1892. Kipling, Rudyard : Barrack Room Ballards and Other Verses. London, Methuen, 1892. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine, sunned. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Pp208, pp16 Publishers list of forthcoming books. Ballards include Madalay, The Young British Soldier, The Widow at Windsor, The Walcott Balestier. All pages clean with very light age toning to edges. A neat book in very good, tight condition.
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Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. 1876 Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda: William Blackwood and sons, Edinburgh & London, 1876. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, spines of which have degraded over time and are browned. Vols 1, 2, 4 and 7 only. All Adverts present. Vol 1.pp16 adverts,191, Vol22, pp16 adverts, pp367, Vol 4, pp8 adverts, pp364, Vol 7, 162, slip notice for next edition 16p adverts. Neat ownership inscription at the top of each wrapper. All pages show some age toning, otherwise clean and bright throughout.
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Foul Play by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault. Ca 1870 Reade, Charles and Boucicault, Dion: Foul Play. London Chatto and Windus Ca 1870. A new edition. 8vo approx. 130mm x 180mm. Half leather with 5 gilt decorated raised bands to spine. Title label missing. Marbled boards and all edges marbled. Marbled end papers. PP414. Frontis and title page with illustrations. 6 full page illustrations and several illustrations within text. Folded map of Godsend Island and 'Forged Note' included. Binding shows a little wear to edges, all papes bright and clean throughout.
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The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate. 1902 Tennyson, Lord Alfred.: The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate. Macmillan and Co. 1902. Octavo approx 195mm x 145mm. Green Cloth, gilt titles to spine, a little bumped and rubbed. Pp900, index i, adverts I. Frontis portrait engraved by G J Stodart, tissue guarded with light foxing. A little age toning to pages, double column in bright order. Booksellers label under important book plate. This book given as the Merchant Venturers Technical College, Bristol/ Govenors prize for Mathematics, English and French/ to Emily M Ewins/Date Xmas 1903. Emily M Ewins was one of the founder members of the Women's Fellowship of the Methodist Church. Became a missionary in China. She wrote, first hand reports of the revolutionary events in Hangkowand Wuchang of 1911-1912. She married Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury. A poetry book offering a gentle commentary of its time, but also a book which has witnessed a very different period of social change. From the Lady of Shalott to the Lady Missionary of China. An interesting volume.
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