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  • The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

    DICKENS, Charles.
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    'the pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again'. The first edition, first issue in book form of Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Ni...

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  • The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

    BOSWELL, James.
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    Extra-illustrated. A handsomely bound extra-illustrated set of Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson. This revised edition by the Anglo-Irish MP and wri...

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  • The Man with a Secret.

    HUME, Fergus W.
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    An uncommon first edition three-decker mystery novel by Hume, author of The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), in very good condition.First edition; ...

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  • The Mysteries of Berlin, from the Papers of a Berlin Criminal Officer.

    [THIEL, Paul].
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    One of the more significant early detective fiction titles, published in Germany the year before, with this the first edition in English published...

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  • The Mystery of a Hansom Cab.

    HUME, Fergus W.
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    With autograph letter. An attractive early issue of this classic of Victorian detective fiction, further enhanced by a letter from the author to a ...

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  • The Piccadilly Puzzle.

    HUME, Fergus W.
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    Inscribed from the author "To Miss C Crommelin with the kindest regards of The Author Fergus Hume 28. 6. 89." Miss C. Crommelin is presumably one ...

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  • The Plays of William Shakespeare.

    SHAKESPEARE, William.
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    While still containing various Prefaces, Essays and Criticisms, in short all the requisite scholastic Gravitas that one would wish for in a seriou...

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  • The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club.

    [RHYMERS' CLUB].
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    The second, and final, anthology of Rhymers' Club poetry, the first published two years before. The Club was founded by W.B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys...

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  • The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,

    [CHAUCER, Geoffrey]; URRY, John (editor).
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    The first complete edition of Chaucer printed in roman letter, also the first to provide descriptions of the manuscripts of Chaucer's works and th...

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  • The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq.

    ADDISON, Joseph.
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    Co-founder of The Spectator. Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist and poet. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long...

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  • The works of...

    STERNE, Laurence.
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    A charming illustrated edition of Laurence Sterne's works.7 vols, 12mo; 15 engraved plates, marbled paper at pages 323 & 324 vol i, contempora...

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  • The Works of...: His Life, Letters and Poems.

    COWPER, William.
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    Thick 4to (245 x 165); portrait frontispiece of the poet after Romney, additional pictorial title and 4 further plates after J. Gilbert, offsettin...

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