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A Dark Lantern.
A Story with a Prologue.
London: William Heinemann, 1905. First edition. This novel was turned in to a (now lost) silent film in 1920. Bound in green cloth, with black and silver decoration to the front. Silver title to spine. 368 pages. 200 x 130 mm (7¾ x 5 inches).
Elizabeth Robins was an American actor, playwright, novelist, and important suffragette. For a time Robins wrote under the name C. E. Raimond in an attempt to keep her acting and writing careers separate. Covers lightly rubbed, spine very slightly faded. Prelims are moderately foxed, page edges also. Otherwise a good copy.Book ID: 2711More details Price: £40.00 -
All on the Irish Shore.
Irish Sketches
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1903. First edition. Eleven short stories of rural Irish life, with illustrations by Somerville. Frontis with tissue guard, and nine other full-page illustrations. Original grey cloth, lettered in black and gilt. This copy was a gift from the author Philip 'Henry' Gosse, the English naturalist, to Ada (the daughter of the author Maarten Maartens ). Dedication to FFEP is dated 1905. [viii], 274, [6] pp. 200 x 135 mm (7¾ x 5¼ inches). Spine cloth is starting to split at the head, and there are signs of tiny water splashes to tail of spine. Foxing throughout, but overall this is a reasonable copy.
Book ID: 2817More details Price: £30.00 -
Constance Trescot.
Book ID: 2226More details Price: £45.00
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Emblems, Divine and Moral: together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man [bound with] The School of the Heart, or The Heart.
Book ID: 4033More details Price: £175.00
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Hugo of Avendon.
In Four Acts.
London: Elliot Stock, 1897. Scarce First Edition. Hardback in original cloth with gilt title the spine and front board. A play set in medieval times about leadership, ruling justly, and political intrigue. Boards are grubby and front has a red ink stain. However, this is a hard to find book, and very clean and fresh inside given its age. OCLC: 1152759107. Three library holding. No copies for sale online when listing. 82 pages. 250 x 190 mm (9¾ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 4679More details Price: £175.00 -
The Race of Leaves
Book ID: 4244More details Price: £300.00
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The Wife Hunter,
by the Moriarty Family.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. An uncommon Irish novel, written by William J. O'Neill Daunt under the pseudonym Moriarty. Two volumes. ( Red cloth spine, and cream card boards. A little fading to the labels on the spine, and slight rubbing to the boards only. Internally clean and tidy, but the text block is quite darkened. Adverts to the front of Volume 1.
18), 198, 191 (i). pages. 130 x 100 mm (5 x 4 inches).Book ID: 1860More details Price: £300.00