1. Tan, Amy.

The Valley of Amazement.

London, Fourth Estate, 2013. 15.5 cm x 24 cm. XIV, 589 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Smithson, Annie M.P.

Her Irish Heritage [″With the Printed Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who died Easter 1916”].

First Edition of her first book. Dublin, The Talbot Press, [no year (1917)]. Octavo. 270 pages. Hardcover / original publisher’s cloth-binding with decroative Celtic-Knot-Design. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This is the best preserved version of this work we have ever seen. With a gift-inscription from the year 1934 (not from Smithson).

3. [Schreiner, Olive] Buchanan-Gould, Vera.

Not Without Honour – The Life and Writings of Olive Schreiner. With an Introduction by Field Marshal, The Rt. Hon. J.C. Smuts.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1948). 14.5 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, 248 pages. 16 illustrations (including frontispiece). Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Preowner details on front endpapers: A.Allan Shearer – 10 Mount St. Wellington – 7-3-51.

4. Rhodes, Elvi.

Doctor Rose.

London, Corgi Books, 1989. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 256 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor foxing to endpapers and edges.

5. Redel, Victoria.

Where the Road Bottoms Out – A Collection of Stories.

New York, Alfred A Knopf, 1995. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 171 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition+ with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by author. Yellow top edge decoration.

6. [Preston Macgoun, Hannah C.] Brown, John.

Pet Marjorie – A Story of Child Life Fifty Years ago. Illustrated by Hannah C.Preston Macgoun.

London / Edinburgh, T.N.Foulis, 1907. Small Octavo. 101, (4) pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Upper spine with small damge. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a personal inscription: “To Maisie, with Love from M. MacBean – Chalmers Hospital – Edinburgh, 25.VII. 08”.

7. Norton, Rictor.

Gothic Readings. The First Wave, 1764-1840. Edited by Rictor Norton.

London ; New York, Leicester University Press, 2000. 24 cm. XIII, 369 pages with 9 illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. [Continuum studies in Gothic fiction].

8. Nicolson, Nigel / [ Vita Sackville-West].

Portrait of a Marriage [Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson].

New York, Athenaeum, 1973. 14 cm x 24 cm. CI, 250 pages. Original Hardcover. Some minor signs of foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

9. Mauriac, Francois.

Saint Margaret of Cortona. Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman.

New York, Philosophical Library, 1948. 13.8 cm x 20.5 cm. IX, 231 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Light rubbing to upper and lower spine. Discoloration to edges, endpapers, front and rear pastedowns. Dustjacket chipped. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

10. Manning, Anne.

Deborah’s Diary. A sequel to ‘Mary Powell’. By the author of Mary Powell.

London, A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1860. 12 cm x 19 cm. 192 pages. Original hardcover. Good and firm condition but with signs of external wear. There is noticeable wear to the outer spine, and occasional foxing. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

11. King, Laurie R.

A Monstrous Regiment of Women.

New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. VIII, 326 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Signed by the author on title page. [A Thomas Dunne Book / The Mary Russell Series (No.2 of 15)]

12. Goldberg, Myra.

Rosalind – A Family Romance.

Massachusetts, Zoland Books, 1996. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 241 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by author.

13. Frame, Janet.

The Carpathians.

London, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1988. 16.5 cm x 24 cm. 196 pages. Dustjacket designed by AB3 Design with an illustration by Dulce Tobin. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

14. Diehl, Margaret.

Men.

First Edition. New York, Soho, 1988. 16 cm x 24 cm. 282 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

15. Conyers, Dorothea.

Old Andy. Author of “Sandy Married”.

Fourth Edition. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1916. 11 cm x 16.5 cm. 253 pages. Original Hardcover. Good condition with signs of external wear. Pages tanned. Some foxing throughout. Smudging to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owner’s names endpapers. Bar code sticker on rear endpaper.

16. Austen, Jane / Chapman, R.W. (Collated by).

The Novels of Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion with introductory notes. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman With Notes Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.

One Volume. Oxford / New York, Oxford University Press, 1988. 12 cm x 19 cm. Northanger Abbey: Frontispiece (The Pumphouse, &c. From Bath, Illustrated from a Series of Views, from the Drawings of John Claude Nattes, 1806), XIII, 252 pages / Persuasion: Frontispiece (Autumnal Walking Dress, Invented by Mrs. Bell. From La Belle Assemblée, 1815), 333 pages. Some black and white illustrations throughout both novels. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper. [The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen (Volume V of VI)].

17. Boccaccio, Giovanni / [Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari].

L’amorosa fiammetta di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, di Nuovo Corretta et Ristampata, con La Tavola et le Postille delle cose Piu Notabili.

Venetia, Appresso I Gioliti, 1584. 9.5 cm x 15.4 cm. 107, [1] pages including illustrated titlepage with Giolito’s printer mark and Giolito’s stunning colophon of Phoenix rising from the ashes and the Motto: “Semper eadem” (″Always the same”). Hardcover in custom – made solanderbox. Recently rebound in half-leather with marbled paper-covered-boards. The bookblock in very good condition with some minor, contemporary inkstains. Name of preowner “Exlibris Bernard Rielliae [″Bernard Reilly”] in contemporary ink (16th or 17th century entry). Small lesion to titlepage and first three pages only. Very faint, faded dampstain to the outer margins of a few pages.

18. De Ségur, Vicomte J. A.

Les Femmes – Leur Condition et Leur Influence dans L’Ordre Social chez différents peuples anciens et modernes [Avec un chapitre “Les Grecs”]. Nouvelle édition, Augmentée de l’influence des Femmes sous l’Empire, et de notes historiques, par M. Ch. N***.

Edition originale. Paris, Raymond Libraire, 1820. 13 cm x 19,5 cm. 474 pages/ 445 pages avec 2 gravures originale. Relié demi-cuir. Excellent condition !! Tome 1 et 2 (complet). Nouvelle Édition. Paris, 1820. 2 gravures. Bel exemplaire. Couverture et tranches de couverture un peu frottées. Intérieur bon état malgré quelques rousseurs éparses. Titre, Auteur et tomaison en dorés sur dos en cuir marron orné de fleurons. Exlibris Franco Crainz.

19. Smithson, Annie M. P.

The White Owl.

First Edition with dustjacket in first issue. Dublin / Cork, The Talbot Press, 1937. Octavo. 300 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. The rare dustjacket with fraying and a larger tear to the bottom. Some foxing. Otherwise in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very Rare Book !

20. Robinson, Mary.

Walsingham; or The Pupil of Nature, A Domestic Story. By Mary Robinson, Author of Angelina – Hubert de Sevrac – The Widow – Vancenza, &c. &c.&c.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete Set). Dublin, Printed by B. Smith for P.Wogan, C.Brown, H.Colbert, W.Porter and J.Rice, 1798. Octavo (12 cm x 17,5 cm). 336, 322 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only to the edges and two tiny lesions to the titlepage of the first Volume. Faded dampstain to some pages of the lower bookblock of Volume II. While the bookblock is generally used and has the occasional very faint stain and a minor tear to a page, the set is in very good or even better condition ! Extremely scarce !