21. Greenwood, James [Harry McCalmont / Hugh McCausland].

Fair Phyllis of Lavender Wharf – A Realistic Romance in Ten Thrills.

Bristol / London, J.W. Arrowsmith / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Limited, No Date (c.1890) 10cm x 16.5 cm. 184 pages. Original Hardcover. Very Rare Book ! Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Discoloration and minor foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Previous owners name in pencil on endpaper and bookplate of Harry McCalmont with his family crest on pastedown. Speckled decorative edges. Bottom of spine entirely detached and top of spine partially detached. [Number 39 in Arrowsmith’s Bristol Library Series].

22. Hearn, Lafcadio.

The Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn. With an introduction by Kenneth Rexroth.

Santa Barbara, Ross-Erikson, Inc., Publishers, 1977. 14. cm x 21.5 cm. XXVII, 303 pages. One black and white photographic illustration on frontispiece and half a dozen pen-and-ink drawings in text. Original Hardcover (grey cloth and title embossed in blue on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. There is a beautiful, small library plate on the bottom right corner of the front free endpaper.

23. Helps, Arthur.

Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon.

Three Volumes (Original Series – Vol. I and II / New Series: Vol. II (of II)). London, William Pickering / John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1849 – 1859. 12.1 cm x 19.7 cm. Pagination: Volume I: Book One: VIII, 228 pages / Volume I: Book Two: VI, 324 pages / New Series – Volume II: VI, 370 pages. Hardcover / Original, very decoratiove full leather with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornament. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

24. Hill, John Spencer.

The Last Castrato.

New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995. 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 269 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

25. Huggan, Isabel.

The Elizabeth Stories.

New York, Viking, 1987. 14 cm x 21 cm. 184 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled fore edge.

26. Keener, Frederick M.

English Dialogues of the Dead – A Critical History, An Anthology, and A Check List.

New York / London, Columbia University Press, 1973. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 302 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear to dust jacket mainly.

27. Kipling, Rudyard.

The Jungle Book. Illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.

New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. 14 x 21cm. Frontispiece, 244 pages, with plates and text illustrations. Original clothbound hardcover with decorated endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, a crease to frontispiece and a very slight lean. [Illustrated Junior Library].

28. Layard, George Somes.

Suppressed Plates: Wood Engravings etc., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto. Being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector.

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. 15 x 21.5cm. Frontispiece, (13), 254 pages, with 34 black and white illustration plates. Original embossed green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and gilt top edges. Some signs of shelf wear to spine and corners, slight lean, front free endpaper foxed, otherwise very good condition. Previous owner’s bookplate affixed to front endpaper.

29. Le Clerc, M.E.

Mistress Beatrice Cope or Passages in the Life of a Jacobites Daughter.

London, Hurst and Blackett, Ltd. No date (c.1900). 13 cm x 19 cm. 335 pages. Original hardcover Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some wear along cover-edges. Browning and spotting of page-edges. Binding slightly strained in places but intact. Clean inside.

30. Marryat, Frederick.

Peter Simple.

London, George Routledge, 1873. 18 cm. 448 pages with frontispiece portrait of Marryat and 6 plates. Hardcover / Half leather of the early 20th century with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Binding slightly detached from the excellent condition bookblock. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.