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Rainey William.: Abdulla : The Mystery Of An Ancient Papyrus.
London. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd. 1928. First Edition. William Rainey 1852-1936 was an English artist, book illustrator and author. This is the undated 1928 first edition of his boys adventure story set in Egypt in the 1890s. 318 Pages plus 4 full page illustrations by the author. A solid binding, pages are slightly browned, all complete. (Book ref. 363) £20.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMott Lawrence.: Jules Of The Great Heart.
London. William Heinemann. 1905. First English Edition. Jordan Lawrence Mott IV, 1881-1931 was an American novelist and writer on the outdoor life. This, his first novel, is set in early 18th century Canada. The adventures of Jules Verbaux a French Canadian Robin Hood, an outlaw trapper with a price on his head set by the Hudson Bay Company, who finally wins the friendship of nearly all the Hudson bay trappers. 279 Pages plus a frontispiece illustration in colour by the American artist F. E. Schoonover. Handwritten signature on front endpaper : Guy Wilson. 285 Pages in total. A solid binding with some discolour to spine, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 362) £24.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMinney R J. Rubeigh James.: Distant Drums.
London. Chapman & Hall. 1935. First Edition. Signed. Rubeigh James Minney 1895-1979 was a Indian born English novelist , biographer, playwright, journalist, film producer and traveller. The central figure of this story is Nicholas Perrybooth who begins his life as a London clerk. His sweetheart Judy jilts him and he drifts to India. He can battle with the toughest in the commercial arena but unread and uneducated he grasps the truth that no man can securely build his own fortunes on the suffering of others. After 40 years of struggle and success Nicholas's fortune flies away, but his life work remains ''the good deed does not die.'' After a short and unhappy married life in England Judy is left a widow and finds happiness as a Salvation Army worker in India. Only when she and Nicholas are alike old, grey and broken do they meet again. Yet both are content. This is a work of fiction which gives good contemporary descriptions of the Eurasian world of Calcutta. 416 Pages in total. Signed and inscribed on front endpaper : For P ? Harmsworth, because it is the right size for his shelves, with warmest regards. R. J. Minney. A solid binding with slight wear to spine, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 357) £32.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMarryat Florence. aka Mrs Francis Lean.: The Root Of All Evil.
London. Richard E. King. Florence Marryat 1833-1899 was a novelist, editor, playwright, spiritualist, singer and actress. She wrote around seventy novels during her career, adapting some for the stage. She also acted with the D’Oyly Carte company in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and toured with George Grossmith. She is best remembered in some circles for her ardent belief in Spiritualism, an interest that was reflected in her writing. This novel is an undated circa 1900 edition of a work first published in 1879. Listed in Hubin's Crime Bibliography as with some crime content. 309 Pages in total. Publishers cloth binding, pages are of cheap quality paper with some browning etc and smell musty, all complete, but sold as a reading copy only. (Book ref. 358) £20.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesKenealy Arabella Madonna.: Dr Janet Of Harley Street.
London. Digby Long & Co. 1895. Arabella Kenealy 1859-1938 writer and physician studied at the London School of Medicine for Women. She practiced for only four years, when illness forced her to retire from medicine and she turned to writing. She wrote works on feminism and evolutionary aspects of sex. and numerous novels. In this work she uses some of her medical experiences and uses the heroine as a mouthpiece for her eugenicist theories. This is the undated 1895 second edition with a frontispiece photographic portrait of Kenealy and a 8 page publishers catalogue dated October 1895 in rear. 348 Pages in total. Handwritten signature on half title page : ? Goodman. May 1898. Original publishers cloth binding with very slight wear, a clean solid binding, foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 356) £36.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesJane Fred T. Frederick Thomas.: Ever Mohun.
London. John Macqueen.1901. First Edition. Frederick Thomas Jane 1870-1916 was an English naval writer with a reputation as a artist and as a novelist before the publication, in 1898, of the first edition of his famous annual All the World's Fighting Ships.This is the scarce first edition of his novel which contains studies of Devonshire life and character. A contemporary review states : A tale with a medieval flavour set in a corner of Devonshire. The Mohun family, a father, son, and daughter suddenly break out into lawlessness, their imediate object of attack being Sir Joseph Laram a Baronet. A tale set against a backround of romance in which the Baronet's son and Ever Mohun are hero and heroine. 330 Pages in total including a frontispiece illustration by the author. Listed in Hubin's Crime Bibliography. A solid binding with slight wear and fading of colour to spine, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 360) £38.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesCroker B. M. Blith Mary.: A Family Likeness. A Sketch In The Himalayas.
London. Chatto & Windus. 1901. New Edition. Croker an Irish born romantic novelist experienced first-hand the Indian regions described in her fiction. The wife of a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Scots and Munster Fusiliers,she spent fourteen years in India and Burma, and wrote novels and stories based on her experiences within the British colonial empire. This is one of her novels of life in colonial India in which all of the action takes place at the foot of the the Himalayas. 308 Pages plus a 32 page publishers catalogue in rear. Inscription on front endpaper : Sophia Clary from Vera 1950. A solid binding with some wear and fading to spine, slight foxing etc to a few pages, catalogue pages are very browned, all complete. (Book ref. 361) £20.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesCampbell Reginald.: Death In Tiger Valley.
London. Hodder and Stoughton. 1931. First Edition. Reginald Wilfred Campbell 1894-1950 was an English forestry official who worked as a teak inspector in Northern Thailand in the 1920s and the author of numerous novels concerning tigers, elephants, and jungle life. This is the undated first edition of his action adventure romance set in the Siamese, now Thai teak forests.. The plot revolves around a marauding man eating tiger and a fever epidemic. A film made in 1936 ''The Girl From Mandalay'', was based on this work . 312 Pages. Listed in Hubin Crime Bibliography. A solid binding, very colour faded to spine, slight browning to a pages, all complete. (Book ref. 359) £28.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesBoothby Guy Newell.: In Spite of the Czar.
London. John Long. 1905. First Edition. Guy Newell Boothby 1867-1905 Australian novelist and writer lived in England from 1894 and some of his earlier works relate to stories of Australian life, but later he turned to genre fiction. He was well known for his novels about Doctor Nikola, an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination.This is his novel set partly in England but mainly in Russia. Listed in Hubin's Crime Bibliography. 271 Pages plus 8 full page illustrations by Leonard Linsdell, with a 8 page publishers catalogue in rear dated 1905. Indecipherable signature on front endpaper dated 28th January 1905.A solid binding with some wear, spine is sun bleached and discoloured, slight foxing to a few pages, 1 plate is torn, all complete. (Book ref. 364) £25.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesBindloss Harold.: The Trustee.
London. Ward Lock & Co. Harold Edward Bindloss 1866 -1945 was an English writer of adventure novels.This is an undated late 1920s edition of his tale of the adventures of an Englishman shipwrecked on the Cuban coast and forced to join a band of insurgents and becomes involved in the Spanish-American War. 256 Pages in total. A good solid binding, pages are clean, all complete. (Book ref. 366) £14.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesBindloss Harold.: Dearham's Inheritance.
London. Ward Lock & Co. 1919. First Edition. Harold Edward Bindloss 1866 -1945 was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in Canada. This is his tale of the life and adventure of an Englishman in the Canadian Northwest, British Columbia, his discovery of a copper vein, and his return to England intrigue and plots. 319 Pages with a frontispiece plate. A good clean solid binding, pages are clean, small piece torn from corner of one leaf not affecting text, all complete. (Book ref. 365) £25.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesEdmund Mitchell aka. Edmund Burke Milne.: The Lone Star Rush.
London. Chatto & Whindus. 1901. First Edition. Edmund Burke Milne 1861-1917 Scottish born author filmmaker, director and journalist who worked in numerous countries as a newspaper correspondent incuding India, Australia and America and wrote adventure novels under the pseudoym Edmund Mitchell. Set in the Australian gold fields this novel was made into a film in 1915 and Mitchell was the director. A contemporary review of the film states : When Harry Murray saves an old prospector from dying of thirst, the prospector rewards him with half of his gold claim. But the map is stolen by ruffian Potosi Jim. The claim, as it turns out, is not all that rich, but further into the desert, Murray finds a two centuries-old skeleton of a shipwrecked sailor who discovered a substantial gold deposit -and, yes, he left a map, too. Murray and his brother locate the ore and the Australian gold rush is on. 368 Pages plus 8 full page illustrations by Norman H. Hardy, with 2 publishers catalogues in rear one dated November 1900. A good solid binding with slight wear etc, illustration to front cover, foxing to some pages some heavy, all complete. (Book ref. 355) £36.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesRoberts Charles G D. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts.: A Balkan Prince.
London. Everett & Co., Ltd. 1913. First Edition. Sir Charles Roberts 1860-1943 was a Canadian poet and novelist, He was born, raised and educated in New Brunswick and served as a high-school principal for many years. In 1897, he moved to New York, where he became a freelance journalist. When WWI came, he entered the army as a private and left as a major. He lived in England until 1925, then he returned to Canada,living in Toronto for the rest of his life. Although best known for his poetry, he also wrote adventure novels and short-stories. This is one of his adventure novels set in the early 1900s involving a Serbian Prince and the use of airplanes in the attempt to recover a hoard of diamonds hidden in the Bosnian mountains. 248 Pages plus a frontispiece plate. A solid binding with some wear and wrinkles to spine, heavy foxing to endpapers and some pages, all complete. (Book ref. 353) £20.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMurphy James.: The Forge Of Clohogue : A Story Of The Rebellion of ' 98.
Dublin. M. H. Gill & Son, Ltd. 1912. Second Edition. James Murphy 1839-1921Irish novelist and mathematician, Professor of Mathematics at the Catholic University in Dublin. He wrote a number of novels and collections of stories from a nationalist standpoint including this historical novel first published in 1885, the story of Eiri Amach, also known as the United Irishmen Rebellion, the uprising in 1798 against British rule. The novel opens on Christmas Eve 1797 and ends with the battle of Ross and includes stirring descriptions of the battle and the battle of Oulart. 332 Pages in total. A solid binding with some wear and lossof colour to spine title, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 350) £36.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMasters Caroline.: The Duchess Lass.
London. Frederick Warne & Co. 1896. First Edition. Caroline Masters was a late victoria writer of tales with a Lancashire setting . This work is the story of Frances Carroll who leaves her rich uncles family home in Kent to return to her birthplace in Lancashire to work as her mother had, as a weaver in the mills. A tale of Lancashire and the mill workers. 329 Pages plus 4 full page illustrations by Lancelot Speed. A good clean solid binding with laid down illustration to front board, decorated endpapers, slight foxing etc to a fewv pages, all complete. (Book ref. 354) £25.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMassey Ruth. aka. Ruth Tovell.: The Crime In The Boulevard Raspail. aka. Death In The Wind.
London. Thomas Nelson. 1934. Ruth Massey 1889-1961 was a Candian art historian. This is a 1934 reprint of her only novel first published in 1932, a crime mystery novel set in Paris featuring a Canadian heroine investigating fakes of famous paintings by Van Gogh and Cezanne. Listed in Hubin's Crime Bibliography. 318 Pages in total. A solid binding with dampstains, pages are clean, all complete. (Book ref. 348) £22.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesJoseph F. J.: Amateurs In Arms.
London. Cassell. 1938. First Edition. The author states : This is a novel, but it is based on the true, though secret, facts about the methods of arms traffickers for the Spanish Civil War ; and the author wishes to say that the incidents that seem most incredible will probably be those which are simply transcripts of the truth. the characters, places, firms and institutions are entirely fictitious and any similarity discoverable of these with any real equivalents is purely accidental. 280 Pages. A solid binding, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 352) £22.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesFrancis M E. aka. Mary E Frances. Mrs Francis Blundell.: The Tender Passion.
London. John Long. 1910. First Edition. Mary E. Blundell, nee Sweetman 1859-1930, was an Irish born English writer and novelist. Born in Dublin, she spent some time at school in Belgium, and in 1879 she married Francis Blundell and they settled near Liverpool. There she began writing, publishing her works mainly under the pseudonym M. E. Francis.This is one of her pastoral novels, a tale of rural life set in Dorset in the Edwardian period with many of the local characters speaking in dialect. 320 Pages in total. A good clean solid binding, slight foxing to a few pages, all complete. (Book ref. 351) £36.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesDawson William J.: Judith Boldero.
London. James Bowden. 1899. William James Dawson 1854-1928 was an English clergyman, author, poet, and dramatist. This is the 1899 second edition of his tale of Judith Boldero a young woman and a love affair, a murder, and the hanging of an Innocent man. 406 Pages with a frontispiece illustration, plus a 10 page publishers catalogue in rear. Methodist Sunday School Prize label on front endpaper dated 1910. A solid binding with some stains to boards and colour fading to spine, pages are clean, all complete. (Book ref. 349) £20.00
Offered for sale by MemoriesMather J Marshall. James.: By Roaring Loom.
London. James Bowden. 1898. First Edition. James Marshall Mather 1851-1916 was an English nonconformist clergyman, writer of local history and author of novels set in industrial Lancashire. This work, a collection of 20 short stories with direct speech in Lancashire dialect. gives a masterly description of life among the Lancashire working classes in Victorian times. 311 Pages plus 4 full page illustrations by Lancelot Speed, with a 6 page publishers catalogue in rear. A good solid binding, foxing to some pages, all complete. (Book ref. 346) £25.00
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