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London : A. D. Innes & Co., 1896. First edition. A collection of six short stories, including “The Lady of the Pool” and “A Three Volume Novel” – “trifles light as air ... fashioned by a master hand” (Daily News).
Crown 8vo (20cm). [iv],346,[ii]pp. Original dark blue cloth, ruled and lettered on upper cover and spine in gilt, blocked in blind with the publisher’s device on lower cover; some faint rubbing; a few slight marks; some spotting, mainly of endpapers and edges, but still a very good copy. Inscribed E. A. Braid, Essex Fruiterers Library Department, on front pastedown, above a blank label with a single 1949 date-stamp.

£40

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London : Skeffington & Son, [1918]. First British edition in book form. Captain Dieppe, man of mystery, soldier, adventurer, fugitive – and a woman who is not what she seems. A Prisoner of Zenda style romance, originally published as a special number of the “Illustrated London News” in 1899 and later a success on the stage in both London and New York.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 192 + 16pp inserted advertisements. Original green cloth, ruled on upper cover and blocked on lower cover in blind; ruled and lettered on spine in black; very lightly rubbed and a touch bruised; a few minor marks and signs of age, but a good copy. Contemporary inscription to Bill from his father dated 13th September 1918 on preliminary blank.

£25

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