HOUSEHOLD WORDS: A WEEKLY JOURNAL CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS VOLUME IX (18 February, 1854 to 12 August, 1854) de DICKENS, CHARLES - 1854

THE BEAUTIES OF WASHINGTON IRVING. ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM TEGG, LONDON, 1866. 4 X 5/58. 373 5/8. pages, plus adverts. USED. Good condition. All gilting still visible on titling on spine. Foxed on a a few pages.

Boston: John L. Shorey. Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, bubbling to front boards, front . hinge reglued, owner bookplate (S. C. Hodges, Oxford, Massachusetts) on . front pastedown.. 1866. Hardcover. Green ruled cloth binding. Title stamped in gilt on spine. Vi, 3-316 pp. A nineteenth century gift book containing short stories, poems, essays, and other writings culled from contemporary sources that are “la creme de la creme...for “readers who, in seeking intellectual relaxation, prefer not to waste their time on light literature of an inferior stamp. ” (publisher’s advertisement). Includes contributions by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Chambers, Leigh Hunt, Dinah M. Craik, William Mudford, Henry A. Blood, and William Allingham, among others. BAL 17257. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

BRACEBRIDGE HALL 1887 Macmillan & Co. By Washington Irving. Ralph Caldecott Illustrated Edition. First Edition Thus. Sequel to "Old Christmas". Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included if issued. 284 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 1/2. Bright gold gilt top-stain, titling and ornamentation. 1" Dark green end-papers. Summary: "Bracebridge Hall, written by the esteemed author, Washington Irving, is a collection of location-based character sketches, detailing the lives and personalities of the occupants of a countryside manor in Yorkshire, England, owned by a squire."

Wharton, Edith et al. Stories from Scribner: Stories of New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Copyright 1893. Authors and stories included in this book are: From Four to Six, Annie Elliot; The commonest possible Story, Bliss Perry; The End of the Beginning, George A. Hibbard; A Puritan Ingenue, John S. Wood; Mrs. Manstey's View, Edith Wharton. Used. Black, leather-bound pocket-size edition. Pink closure ribbon has gone. Good condition. Binding is a little loose. RARE.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Leer más

Rodney Stone, A Tale of the Napoleonic Wars by Arthur Conan Doyle. First Edition, copyright 1896 and published 1897 by D. Appleton And Company, New York. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Used. Exlib. GOOD- CONDITION.Red buckram cloth boards. Gilt titling. Black & White plates Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Frontis and 11 all additional plates are present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. 408 pages plus adverts. RARE/SCARCE/HARD TO FIND.

Paris: Giraldon-Bovinet et Comp.. Fair with no dust jacket; Two of the engravings trimmed at one side, two . facing engravings have stain in center. Boards worn, front joint and hinge . cracked but holding, scattered light foxing.. 1830. Hardcover. Quarterbound navy leather with marbled paper-coveredsides. A gift book collection of poetry, prose, and short stories. Text in French. Three of 17 engravings present. Handsome engraved bookplate of Lieutenant Thomas Perry on front pastedown and his name, dated 1877 in Panama, in center of first engraving of a Thos. Southard cartouche. Measures 7.5 x 5 inches. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

H. RIDER HAGGARD: Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus. Longmans, Green and Co., Copyright 1918. States 1920 on the title page. March 1920 Third Printing Thus. 1920 Used. Good- condition/ no DJ. States 1920 on title page. Blindstamped red cloth boards. Titling still visible on spine. Colour frontispiece of Merapi at a chariot. Gutter separation at back hinge. Bright pages. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana." Rare/Scarce. By H. Rider Haggard, author of "She", King Solomon's Mines, and the Allan Quatermain Professor Challenger series.

The Woman in White. By Wilkie Collins. The Home Library Series A.L. Burt Company. P Undated, circa 1940. Maroon cloth boards with gold gilt topstain. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice vintage copy.

Stendhal: The Chartreuse of Parma. Translated from the French by The Lady Mary Loyd. Published by D. Appleton & Co., NY. 1901 First Edition, 1st Printing Thus. States 1 on the last page. Black cloth boards. Paper title label is present on spine but has darkened over time. Used. Good condition/ No DJ is included. A clean, solid copy. Green decorative endpapers are intact. Summary: The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel by Stendahl published in 1839.Telling the story of an Italian nobleman in the and later, it was admired by Balzac, Tolstoy, Andre Gide, di Lampedusa and Henry James. It was inspired by an inauthentic Italian account of the dissolute youth of Alessandro Farnese."