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London. John Milne. 1903. Burford Delannoy was the pseudonm of Adolphus Eugene Judge 1856-1931 an English crime mystery writer. This is a murder mystery in which a woman is accused of murdering her father and the theft of jewels. 344 Pages in total. Original publishers cloth binding with illustrated spine and front board. A solid binding with slight wrinkles, foxing etc to a few pages, all complete. W. H. Smith's subscription library on fixed front endpaper. (Book ref. 543)
London. John Long. 1902. First Edition. Frederic Carrel 1869-1928 was an American journalist and novelist who lived and worked in England. The author of twelve novels of which the most successful was The Adventures of John Johns, a satire on Frank Harris, one of the most infamous characters of the late 19th and early 20th century. His novels are distinguished for eccentricity rather than literary merit. A review of this work states : The novel is in stilted dialogue and concerns the struggle between worldly selfinterest, personified by Agnes Alexander, and humanitarianism, personified by her sister Clara Maxwell. Agnes has married for social advancement, while pregnant by a lover, and forces her weak husband to desert the Liberal cause for the Conservative. 304 Pages plus a 24 page publishers catalogue in rear dated 1902. A solid binding with gilt lettering to spine and front board, foxing to endpapers, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 539)
London. Methuen. 1902. Ernest Glanville 1855-1925 was a Anglo-African writer and journalist known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa. In 1870 he published a newspaper in Kimberley, and In addition to his literary works, he worked in journalism for the Cape Argus and other newspapers.His adventure novels were written from what he had seen, done, or heard from eyewitnesses, and historical facts are mixed with supernatural elements of local myth and magic. This is the story of the adventures of an Englishman, which starting on the London Stock Exchange soon shifts to South America amongst the Indians and Gauchos of Peru, mines, Peruvian ruins and Aztecs. Treasure trove plays a large part in the scheme of the story. 277 Pages with 4 full page illustrations by A. H. Buckland plus a 40 page publishers catalogue dated August 1902 in rear. Signature on front endpaper dated 1909. A good clean solid binding with illustrated front board and gilt lettered title to spine, browning to endpapers, slight foxing to a few pages, a few rough cut page edges, all complete. (Book ref. 535)
London.Chatto & Whindus . 1895. First Edition. Ernest Glanville 1855-1925 was a Anglo-African writer and journalist known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa. In addition to his literary works, he worked in journalism for the Cape Argus and other newspapers. His adventure novels were written from what he had seen, done, or heard from eyewitness accounts, and historical facts are mixed with supernatural elements of local myth and magic. This is one of his scarce early novels, an Englishman's search for the "Golden Rock" containing pure veins of gold, following a map drawn by his dead uncle a colonial hunter and kaffir trader. A story of adventure at sea, in Brazil, and in the wilds of Africa. The Golden Rock, the shining stone of the Zulu natives, the eye of the morning, the place of bloodshed. 278 Pages with a frontispiece illustration by Stanley Wood, plus a 32 page publishers catalogue in rear dated November 1895. Signature on half title page : J. Saudell Stevens, Sept = 1904. A good solid binding with decorative endpapers and a bright front cover illustration, spine has some colour fading, rear cloth has some wrinkles, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 537)
London. Chatto & Windus. 1894. First Edition. Ernest Glanville 1855-1925 was a Anglo-African writer and journalist known especially for his short stories which are widely read and taught in South Africa. In addition to his literary works, he worked in journalism for the Cape Argus and other newspapers. His adventure novels were written from what he had seen, done, or heard from eyewitnesses, and historical facts are mixed with supernatural elements of local myth and magic. This is one of his scarce early novels. A contempory review of this story states : The opening chapters treat of sport and sports ; then follows a migration of the chief character to South Africa. There is plenty of adventure. Bullets and assegais whizz through its pages. The heroine, who is disappointed in her lover, goes to Cape Colony as overseer on a large fruit farm, "where the black men live in the woods", tend their cattle and keep alive their superstitions, and the monotony of farming is broken by raids of cattle stealers and buffalo hunts. His weird Witch-man is a genuine creation. 328 Pages with a frontispiece illustration by Stanley Wood, plus a 32 page publishers catalogue in rear dated November 1893. A solid binding with illustrated front board and spine, binding is dust stained with colour fading to spine and bumps to corners and top/tail of spine, browning to decorated endpapers and slight foxing to some pages, all complete. (Book ref. 536)
London. Viking. 1990. First Edition. Explorers of the Amazon vividly describes how European explorers such as Pedro Cabral, Francisco De Orellana, Lope de Aguirre, and Madame Godin encountered the vast wilderness of the Amazon basin; how they searched, exploited, and fought over its riches and what they learned and failed to learn through four centuries of adventure. Anthony Smith not only enriches this history with fascinating geographical, political, and scientific details but also gives a strong warning to those who continue to exploit this great river's resources. With illustrations and maps. In good clean condition with d/w. (Book ref. 15)
London. C Arthur Pearson. 1897. First Edition. Robert Harborough Sherard 1861-1943 was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer of Oscar Wilde. A contemporary review states : Mr. Sherard has laid the scene of this story in an old French fishing village in the Landes, situated in the Bay of Biscay, about thirty miles from the Spanish frontier. A tale of love, mystery, and a search for hidden treasure, set in the late 19th century. Listed in Hubin's Crime Bibliography. 311 Pages in total. Original publishers cloth with gilt lettered titles to spine and front board, a good solid binding, all pages have some browning, some have a stain to top corner, all complete. (Book ref. 493)
London. Nelson. 1926. First Edition. Australian crime writer Percival Charles Rodda 1891-1976 was born in Port Augusta and educated in Adelaide. After working as a journalist he went to the USA in 1919. From 1926 he lived in England and France. This is one of his scarce early novels, a tale set in Australia, the story of the adventures of Captain Scarlet a bushranger, as told by himself. Listed in Hubin Crime Bibliography. A solid binding, very slight foxing to a few pages. (Book ref. 151)
London. Fisher Unwin. 1924 First Edition. A tale of adventure on a tropical South Sea island written by Gordon Ray Young 1886-1948 a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. A story with a pirate, two half native girls, a gentleman vagabond and a German planter. The German marries one of the girls, was loved by neither,both girls loved the vagabond. A solid binding in good clean condition. (Book ref. 70)
London. Cassell And Company. 1913. First Edition. Ida Alexa Ross Wylie 1885 -1959 usually known by her pen name I. A. R. Wylie, was an Australian born English novelist, journalist, screenwriter, poet, woman of letters and suffragette who flourished during the 1910s as a romance writer, and later became known for her non fiction work. She became involved in the women's suffrage movement in England during the early teens, and America became her permanent home later where she lived with doctor Sara Josephine Baker in a lesbian relationship together with their friend Louise Pearce. This novel was used as source material for the 1922 film The Grass Orphan, a moral melodrama. The story of the St. John family who lived on a money allowance from an unknown uncle who receive a message that the family fortune has been wiped out. Neglectful of their young child a society matron offers the couple a substantial sum to raise the young child in her home. The couple considers until Mrs. St. John's maternal love proves stronger than money. She takes a job as a model while the husband drives a horse-drawn carriage. 320 Pages. A good clean solid binding, foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 269)
London. Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. 1908. First Edition. The authors one and only novel, a story set around late Victorian high society. A contemporary review states : The marriage of a Socialist barrister of humble origin to the daughter and presumptive heiress of a peer is the subject of this amiable volume. 496 Pages in total. Indecipherable presentation inscription on free front endpaper by the author dated 1908. A good clean solid binding, foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 504)
London. Cassell. 1970. First Edition. 166 pages plus 12 pages b/w photographs and a map showing the rivers in England. This book deals with a variety of bridges chosen for their beauty of design, their historical appeal or sometimes for their oddity. In good condition with slight wear to d/w. (Book ref. 26)
Suffolk Terence Dalton 1971 First Edition. Chapters include : The early years, His love poems, The sea and the River Wye, Move to Bedfordshire, plus many of his poems and samples of his prose and plays. With 23 pages of illustrations and chapter head illustrations from engravings in an early edition of The Farmers Boy. A solid binding in good clean condition with some wear to d/w. (Book ref. 18)
London. Hutchinson & Co. 1905. First Edition. Stanley Weyman 1855-1928 was the author of numerous swashbuckling historical novels but this work , one of his later novels set in the early 19th century in rural Windermere & Kendal in England a few years after the battle of Waterloo is more of a domestic rural drama that describes daily English life, a tale that has more to do with its women characters than is the case with most of his novels. A girl elopes in order to escape an unwanted match, only to discover, after many thrilling adventures, that she had fled from a man she loved after all. 345 Pages plus 8 full page plates by Cyrus Cuneo plus a 32-page publishers catalogue in rear dated August 1905. A good solid binding, slight foxing to some pages, all complete. (Book ref. 258)
London Hodder And Stoughton. (1927). First Edition. Arthur Weigall 1880-1934 was an English writer, artist, egyptologist, Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Upper Egypt, correspondent for the Daily Mail and in later life a film-maker and film critic.This is his account on "every important Norman building in every county in England". Illustrated with 68 pages of annotated sepia tone photographs.The author states : The descriptive matter in this book was gathered mainly during a long motor tour which I made in the summer of this year 1927, and in the course of which I visited every important Norman building in every county in England.The historical and archaeological material has been collected over a period of several years. 352 pages plus illustrations. A solid binding with slight wear, very slight foxing to a few pages lacking front endpaper . (Book ref. 23)
London. Smith, Ainslie & Co. 1895. Robert Patrick Watson 1848-c1918 was a boxing referee, athlete, Sporting Life journalist and author. As a sporting man his acquaintances included all classes of society good and bad.This was his only crime novel, a story according to the preface based on people he knew, a tale of criminal life in London and Paris. Listed in Hubin Crime Bibliography. 238 Pages in total including 7 full page plates. Sold as a reading copy only, binding has some wear with stains and wrinkles, some pages have fingermarks etc, all complete. (Book ref. 253)
London. John Long. 1904. First Edition. Florence Alice Price 1857-1929, was an English novelist, playwright and actress who wrote over a hundred novels and short stories, especially romances. This is the undated first edition of her story of Dorcas a young American girl in England and her difficult romance and marriage to an English country gentleman. 320 Pages in total. A solid binding with some slight dampstains to cloth, pages are clean, all complete. (Book ref. 287)
London. Elliot Stock. 1908. First Edition. Thomas Walton 1868 -1938 was born and educated at Keighley in Yorkshire. He attended Dunoon Theological College, Scotland and was ordained into the clergy in 1893. He wrote 2 novels, both are listed in Hubin's Crime Bibliography and this is the undated 1908 first edition of his first book. A tale of mystery, crime, and murder, set mostly in and around a country house in Yorkshire.281 Pages in total. A solid binding with some fading of colour, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 495)
London. Religous Tract Society. An adventure story first published by this Irish author in 1863. This undated edition was published circa 1900. A story of a young Irishman and his brother who emigrate to Canada and travel to the upper reaches of the Ottawa River. A tale of the exitement and dangers of the imigrant settlers, of shanty towns, backwoods and prairies, of hunting, fishing and the native indian tribes. 383 Pages with 15 full page illustrations by Sir J ohn Gilbert, plus a 14 page booksellers list in rear. A good solid binding with slight wear etc, with illustrations to front board and spine. (Book ref. 105)
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London. Constable. 1933. First Edition. Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet CVO DSO 1887-1969 fought in both the First World War and Second World War with the Grenadier Guards. Under the pen name of Henry Wade, he was a noted mystery writer and one of the founding members of the Detection Club and a pioneer in the police procedural technique. This is one of his scarce mystery novels. Set on the East Anglia coast, an "outsider" is found dead on the shore, a murder committed in a moment of passion. and the police must overcome the locals reticence to solve the case, a tale which involves a struggling artist and his wife, an arrogantly successful writer, and an impoverished fisherman in a small community. Listed in Hubin Crime Bibliography. 341 Pages with a frontispiece sketch map of the Saltings plus 2 pages of publishers advertisments. A solid binding with some wear and colour fading to spine, browning etc to endpapers. (Book ref. 152)