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Sonnets From the Portuguese

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets to
the Portuguese are widely considered among the greatest cycle of
sonnets in the English language. This collection of love poems was
written between 1845-46 to fellow poet and her soon-to-be husband,
Robert Browning.

Originally, Browning had no intention
of publishing the poetry owing to its deeply personal subject matter,
but her husband convinced her to publish them in the 1850 edition of
her Poems. Originally, however, she was reportedly to have called the... Read more about this item

Orley Farm

by Anthony Trollope

When Joseph Mason of Groby Park, Yorkshire, died, he left his estate to his family. A codicil to his will, however, left Orley Farm (near London) to his much younger second wife and infant son. The will and the codicil were in her handwriting, and there were three witnesses, one of whom was no longer alive. A bitterly fought court case confirmed the codicil.

Twenty years pass. Lady Mason lives at Orley farm with her adult son, Lucius. Samuel Dockwrath, a tenant, is asked to leave by Lucius, who wants to... Read more about this item

Victorian Fiction Books & Ephemera

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT likely from FREDERICK THE GREAT

by CARLYLE, Thomas

[1853]. Manuscript. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear. About Fine and uncommon. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter (8" x 9-7/8") addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil, the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter.

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SGD 2,582.62

Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson with a Selection of the Best Short Novels

by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Neider, Charles (Edited and with anIntroduction by)

Garden City, NY: International Collectors Library. 1969. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Lovely faux-leather boards with gilt titles and decorations. Ribbon bookmark. xxx, 678 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Book Club Edition. Hardback.

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SGD 35.98

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL AND DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY.

by JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith, LL.D

Edinburgh and London: W. & A.K. Johnston, 1886. New Edition".. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, original publisher's full brown cloth heavily blocked in black & gilt on front panel, block in blind on rear cover. With 20 tipped in double-page maps [all maps are on guards and can be laid flat without loss], + 23 pp Index at rear. Yellow coated endpapers with publisher's advertising. The original owner (one S.P. Ambrose) has affixed his hand-written school schedule to the front paste-down, and written his... Read more about this item

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SGD 413.22

The Imagination of Charles Dickens

by Cockshut, A. O. J

London: Collins,. Hardback. 192pp. Blue boards with gilt titles to spine. Very sunned to spine. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy. . Hardcover. 1961.

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SGD 11.20

PETSETILLA'S POSY: A Fairy Tale. For Young and Old. With Fifty Illustrations by F. Barnard, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.

by HOOD, Tom

London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1870]. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth over beveled boards, titled and decorated in gilt and black on spine and front panel, gray coated endpapers. 156 pp + 1 leaf of ads at rear. Frontispiece with tissue guard, plus numerous illustrations throughout the text, some full-page. Although undated, there is a pencil inscription dated Xmas, 1870 on an initial blank. Tiny corner creases, some foxing to... Read more about this item

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SGD 275.48

REALMAH. By the Author of "Friends in Council". In Two Volumes.

by HELPS, Arthur

London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes. Octavo, original dark blue cloth bordered in blind and with a small decorative device in gilt on front panels, gilt decorations & titles to spines. Brown coated endpapers. 299 + 320 pp, [4] pp ads + [48] pp publishers cat alogue at rear of Vol. 1, dated 5.68. Withdrawn from the Birmingham University Library, with their bookplates on the front endpapers, stamps to title leaves and old call numbers neatly... Read more about this item

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SGD 206.61

Prepare to Shed Them Now The Ballads of George R. Sims

by Sims, George R.; Calder-Marshall, Arthur (Selected andIntroduced by)

London: Hutchinson. 1968. Tall Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 152 pages. A selection of the famous ballads of this journalist, playwright & famous balladist. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

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SGD 12.59

JOHN BULL AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP. A New Reading on an Old Tale. By Homunculus (Thackeray). 1849. With Six Illustrations Designed by the Author.

by HOMUNCULUS (attributed to William Makepeace Thackeray)

Leicester: Wyvern Bindery, Wellington Street, 1903. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint of a work first issued in 1849. Octavo, original gray-green cloth blocked pictorially in gold on the front panel, titled in gold on spine. 63 pp., frontispiece and 5 additional black & white plates. Trifle bit of darkening to spine panel, a nice clean copy, very good or better. ¶ The text is a satire on Richard Cobden, with marvellous plates symbolically depicting Cobden in various Blakean scenes... Read more about this item

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SGD 172.17

IN MEMORIAM AS WRITTEN BY ALFRED LORD TENNYSON MDCCCXLIX

by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord

London: Bankside Press, (1900). Hardcover. Some soiling. Very Good copy of this nicely printed edition. Blanche McManus. Gilt-stamped white cloth. Copy #104 of 500 printed in orange and black with rubricated intials from designs by Blanche McManus. Given in honor of a young man who died at the age of 24 in 1900 as noted on the half-title page.

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SGD 129.20

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

by SWINBURNE, Algernon

Holmwood, November 14. Letter. Creases from mailing. Near Fine. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "A. C. Swinburne" on two adjoining 4-1/2" x 7" sheets to composer Theo Marzials. In large part: "I am afraid I did not answer your note yesterday, & today it rises on my sight like an avenging ghost. As a rule I find it necessary to leave such matters as the publishing of my songs with music wholly in the hands of the publishers, who have their own tariff fixed for the license; but of course I reserve my... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,291.31

THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD; SHEWING WHO ROBBED HIM, WHO HELPED HIM, AND WHO PASSED HIM BY

by THACKERAY, William Makepeace

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. All hinges are cracked to varying degrees with several covers loose but all attached. Uncommon in original cloth. But for the cracked hinges, this would be a Near Fine set. Three volumes in the Second Issue binding (Sadleir 3186) of brown morocco cloth with more conventional blocking than the first issue. According to Carter (BINDING VARIANTS, pages 158-159), 1520 copies were printed.

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SGD 1,033.05

THE STONES OF VENICE

by RUSKIN, John

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1874. New Edition. Hardcover. Contents fresh and clean; hinges sound, tightly bound. Cloth also bright and clean with some fraying along spine edges and tips. Near Fine set and increasingly uncommon as such. John Ruskin. Three large octavo (7" x 10-1/4") volumes in the publisher's brown blindstamped and gilt-decorated cloth. One of 1500 copies SIGNED by the author at the end of the preface. Illustrated with 62 plates, many in color, and drawings in the text by the author.... Read more about this item

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SGD 1,463.49

A WELCOME and A WELCOME. TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES FROM THE POET LAUREATE with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS PUBLISHER

by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord

London: Edward Moxon & Co./Day & Son, 1863. First Edition. Wraps. The illuminated version is disbound and has a faint running stain in the lower left corner almost entirely in the margin. The signature is a bit faded with mounting traces on the verso of the letter. Near Fine. Included are a first issue copy (with the solid diamond and rule ornament on the title) of the 4-page leaflet (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") published by Edward Moxon & Co. and the version illuminated by Owen Jones (8-1/4" x 11-1/2") and... Read more about this item

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SGD 3,013.06

The Fantasy Book An Illustrated History from Dracula to Tolkein

by Rottensteiner, Franz

New York: Collier Books. 1978. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners and faint marking to rear cover. Colour and black & white illustrations. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. 160 pages. Presents a spectral march of figures and themes from the edge of reality and beyond. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.

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SGD 13.49

Thomas Hardy

by Howe, Irving

New York: Macmillan,. Hardback. 206pp. Critical biography. Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with a little rubbing and very tiny tears. Slightly sunned to spine. Very good copy in very good- dw. . Hardcover. 1967.

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SGD 18.10

John Halifax Gentleman

by Mulock, Dinah Maria

London: Adam and Charles Black. 1912. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Mild rubbing to spine edges & ends and corners. 20 full page colour plates by Oswald Moser and G. F. Nicholls (All present). Introduction by Gordon Home. 464 pages. Oringinally published in 1856. Copies of this title are often attributed to the author's married name Mrs Craik or Dinah Maria Craik. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.

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SGD 26.99

Dickens: A Life

by Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie

Oxford: Oxford University Press,. Hardback. 434pp. Biography of the Victorian novelist. Over 20 black and white illustrations. Green boards with gilt titles to spine. Bumped to spine ends. Slightly sunned to dust wrapper spine. A little rubbed to dust wrapper. Very good copy in Good dw. . Hardcover. 1979.

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SGD 18.10

VERSES AND TRANSLATIONS by C.B.S.

by CALVERLEY, Charles Stuart; TERRY, Ellen; SALA, George Augustus

Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co. / London: George Bell and Sons. , 1884.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Ninth edition. 12mo, green cloth, spine gilt. 214 pp + [2] pp ads. Presentation copy from George Augustus Sala to Charlotte Bouverie "C.B. from G.A.S. Jan 85" at head of title, and from Charlotte Bouverie to Ellen Terry with inscription in Ellen Terry's hand "Ellen Terry from Charlotte Bouverie 1888" on half title leaf, with her initials "ET" on verso of front endpaper. Very good clean copy. From... Read more about this item

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SGD 206.61

An Essay on Hardy

by Bayley, John

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,. Hardback. 237pp. Covers both Hardy's poetry and novels. Red boards with gilt titles to spine. Some what faded and tanned to spine of dust wrapper. Very good copy in Good dw. . Hardcover. 1978.

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SGD 20.68

THE PRAIRIE-BIRD.

by MURRAY, Charles Augustus

London: Richard Bentley, 1845. First Edition Thus. Half-Leather. Very Good. The first one-volume edition, issued as volume 98 in Bentley's Standard Novels series. Originally issued in 3 vols by Bentley in 1844. Small octavo, bound in half black calf over marbled boards, spine panel nicely decorated in blind and ruled in gilt with in compartments, contrasting red leather title labels lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. Engraved frontispiece, vii, 581 pp. Bookplate and a small stamp from Aspley House,... Read more about this item

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SGD 275.48

Poems

by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

London: Edward Moxon, 1844 First edition, mixed issue as usual. First impression of Volume I, with "let the flood / of your salt scorn" to page 141. Second impression of Volume II, with the page numbers battered on pages 161 and 163, and with "the end'' to page 175. Publisher's green cloth, spines lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, boards decorated with embossed vine borders. Near fine, with some toning to the spines, a few tiny closed tears to the spine ends, spine head of... Read more about this item

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SGD 2,754.80

A DUET With an Occasional Chorus.

by DOYLE, Arthur Conan

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899.. First American Edition, Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. First American Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, original maroon buckram titled and decorated in silver and gilt, light brown coated endpapers. 336 + [8] pp ads at rear. the first American edition was issued by Appleton in March, 1899 in an edition of 1,500 copies; this second printing (of 5,000 copies) was issued later the same year. It is identified by the ads; pp [ii] has a list of six works by... Read more about this item

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SGD 48.21

The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857 London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-1859. In the original 24 serial parts. First edition, first issue, p. 207 with "actresses" for "ancestresses", and part 12 with chapters XVII-XVIII misnumbered as XVIII-XIX. Publisher's yellow paper wrappers, advertisements present. A very good set with some toning and soiling to wrappers, some wear to edges, particularly to volumes I, X, XV, XVI, XVIII-XX, and XIV, the others being only lightly worn, a few light... Read more about this item

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SGD 688.70

HARRY COVERDALE'S COURTSHIP And All That Came of It. [Yellowback edition].

by SMEDLEY, Frank E

London: George Routledge and Sons. , No Date [1880s?].. Reprint. Octavo, original colour pictorial boards (a Victorian 'yellowback']. 444 pp., ads on fixed endpapers, rectos and versos of free endpapers, including a full-page add for Beecham's Pills on the verso of the front free endpaper. Rear cover bears an advert for Pears Soap. Some wear to boards at extremities, small crack on rear board; a very good copy.

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SGD 61.98

What Every Woman Knows (The Plays of J. M. Barrie)

by Barrie, J. M

London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1929. 12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm] . Very Good condition. Dark blue lether with gilt decorations. Spine lightly rubbed, especially at the ends. Gilt to top edge. Previous owner's details to half-title page. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 160 pages. The Uniform Edition of the Plays of J. M. Barrie. . 1st thus. Hardback.