Collectable Fiction from Washburn Books

London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1950 Book. Illus. by John Minton (jacket design). Good. Brown Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Scarce copy of a novel, set mainly in London, by the author of The Dark Peninsula, Ernest Frost. 253pp. Bronze lettering on oval black title label to spine. Edges age-toned and foxing to early and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1938 Book. Good. Brown Cloth Boards. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Novel set in a rural community by the English farmer, writer and broadcaster Arthur George Street (1892-1966). 431pp. Gilt lettering to spine. Signed by the author to the title page, dated November 1938. Slight forward lean to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1896 Book. Illus. by F H Townsend. Good. Burgundy Buckram. Presumed First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Seventh and final novel by the English novelist and poet Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866), first published in 1861 after being serialised in 1860. 291pp illustrated with 40 black and white drawings. Introduction by George Saintsbury.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: George Bell & Sons, 1906 Book. Illus. by F A Fraser. Good. Red Cloth Boards. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Novel set in the Napoleonic wars, first published in serialized form in 1833. 421pp, illustrated with 8 black and white drawings. Black lettering to spine. Forward lean and some fading to spine, slight bumping to spine and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company Limited, 1907 Book. Good. Green Suede Leather. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). Introduction by Sir Henry Irving. 192pp. All edges gilt. Bound in dark green suede with gilt title to spine and design to front cover. Yapped edges. Some rubbing and… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1951 Book. Good. Red Cloth Boards. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Novel by the Sottish author John Buchan, first published in 1936. 343pp. Gilt lettering to spine and decorated initials to top board. Top edges tinted. Slight forward lean to spine, minor rubbing to spine and corners, wrinkling to cloth on… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co Ltd Book. Good. Blue Decorated Boards. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Undated edition of the best-selling Victorian novel by the English writer Ellen Wood (1814-1887), originally serialised in 1860-61 and first published in three volumes in 1861. 520pp illustrated with black and white plates. Blue boards decorated with… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 Book. Illus. by T de Thulstrup. Good. Red Decorative Boards. Reissued with Corrections. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Historical romance associated with the early Second Coming of Christ, first published in 1827 and issued at various times under different titles. Introduction by Gen. Lewis Wallace. 588pp illustrated with black… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Fourth Estate, 2012 Book. Very Good. Black Cloth Boards. First Edition, 14th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second novel in Hilary Mantel's trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell. First edition with only '13' in number line. 411pp. Gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers. Minor sunning and marking to top edges, otherwise good copy with no… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1953 Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Collins Classics No.610. Acclaimed novel by the South African author and anti war campaigner Olive Schreiner (1855-1920), with an introduction by S C Cronwright-Schreiner. 285pp with bibliography, illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1953 Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. First Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Collins classics No.615. Introduction by J T Christie. 448pp with glossary and bibliography, illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering to spine, top edges tinted, patterned endpapers. Slight fading to head and tail of spine, light… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1906 Book. Illus. by Ad. Lalauze. Good. Green Buckram. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. The Waverley Novels, Volume XII. Large type Border edition, with introductory essays and notes by Andrew Lang. 680pp with 12 black and white illustrations, tissue guarded frontis. Gilt lettering and design to top board and spine. Slight forward… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1898 Book. Illus. by W H C Groome. Good. Blue Decorated Boards. Presumed First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Family story, author unattributed, in the Chatterbox Library series, in Victorian binding of blue boards decorated with a red, yellow and black drawing and gilt lettering to top board and spine. 148pp… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Caxton Publishing Co Book. Good. Dark Green Cloth Boards. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Waverley Novels, Volume 19. Undated Melrose edition. 392pp with glossary, illustrated with black and white reproductions of paintings by various artists. Title page printed in red and black. Gilt lettering and design to spine. Slight bumping to spine and corners,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: The Caxton Publishing Co Book. Good. Dark Green Cloth Boards. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Waverley Novels, Volume 18. Undated Melrose edition. 388pp with glossary, illustrated with black and white reproductions of paintings by various artists. Title page printed in red and black. Gilt lettering and design to spine. Slight forward lean to spine, bumping… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, 1912 Book. Good. Blue Cloth Boards. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Novel in the Nelson Library of Copyright Fiction by the Scottish author Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864-1916), who volunteered for the Red Cross at the outbreak of the First World War and wrote extensively about the plight of refugees from… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: T Woolmer, 1883 Book. Good. Brown Decorated Boards. Presumed First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Story set in Rome, by the Canadian Methodist minister William Henry Withrow (1839-1908), author of a major historical study of the Christian Catacombs of Rome, published in 1874. 172pp, illustrated with black and white engraving to frontis and decorated chapter heads.… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press Book. Illus. by Cockerton. Good. Red Cloth Boards. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Collins Library of Classics edition, undated. 510pp illustrated with black and white portrait to frontis. Gilt lettering to spine, top edges tinted. Slight bumping to spine and corners, fading to top and bottom of spine, hospital lending library… Saber más sobre este artículo

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press Book. Illus. by S V Spence. Very Good. Burgundy Leather. Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Illustrated Pocket Classics Edition of a novel, set in the period of the Third Crusade (1189-1192), first published in 1825. 464pp illustrated with black and white plates. Gilt lettering and design to spine, facsimile sighnature to… Saber más sobre este artículo

London: John Long, 1904 Book. Good. Green Decorated Boards. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Story about the tragic life of a country postman, by the artist, poet and prolific author of crime and romantic novels, Amy Dora Reynolds (1860-1957). 300pp. Top board decorated with a colour drawing, black lettering to spine. Some bumping to spine, foxing… Saber más sobre este artículo