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2nd imp. hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 212pp., A novel of espionage; authors first book.

8vo, pp. 126. Half-bound marble boards, half-title bound in, original front wrapper pasted to front pastedown. Printed in double columns. Spine label. Contents browned, portion of (later) spine label missing, but a well preserved copy. Rebound popular edition. First published by Methuen in 1902. The prolific 'Richard Marsh'/Richard Heldmann [1857-1915] wrote in a wide variety of genres, but is now best remembered for his weird and supernatural fiction -- he was the author of The Beetle (1897), a best-seller published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula. His grandson was the modern master of weird fiction, Robert Aickman. The Twickenham Peerage is one of Marsh's more conventional tales: an impoverished aristocrat needs money to enable him to marry. Scarce in this cheap and flimsily made edition.

A clean,tight ,sound copy of the First Edition in original publishers cloth,lettered in white to the front board but with spine lettering erased original black coated endpapers, Crown 8vo.vi.317pps.+2pp advert leaf. Tissue guarded frontispiece and one other plate by Harold Copping. Neat inscription to half title dated Xmas 1903 Heldmanns writing career, encouraged by G.A.Henty came to an abrupt end in 1883 when he was sucessfully charged and prosecuted for forgery. He re-emerged as Richard Marsh and famously went on to write "The Beetle" and many other novels & short stories. [See Minna Vuohelainen's VFR Guide No35].

An undated early 1900's "Cheap" Reprint. 8vo.(7"x5") 314 pps. red blind stamped bds. (Click on illustration) Inscription to paste down dated 1944 no endpapers as issued final leaf of text forming the paste down. A clean sound copy of a scarce title. (This edn not listed in COPAC.).

Very Good. A study of married life from the seventeenth century, commonly attributed to female author Aphra Behn. Reprinted from the original with an introduction by John Harvey. With the original twenty plates and two engraved titles re-engraved. First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. pp.18/[6pp.]/pp.280 . 9.0" x 6.5" x 1.5". Cream cloth covered boards, with bumped corners. Spine with gilt titles (a little dulled). Deckled page edges. Clean text and illustrations throughout. A very good book. ** Note fron COPAC (British Library): "With reproductions of original title-pages: (1) The ten pleasures of marriage, relating all the delights and contentments that are mask'd under the bands of matrimony. Written by A. Marsh, typogr. [Ornament] London, Printed in the year, 1682. (2) The confession of the new married couple, being the second part of the Ten pleasures of marriage. Relating the further delights and contentments that ly mask'd under the bands of wedlock. Written by A. Marsh. Typogr. [Ornament] London, Printed in the year 1683." *** "The Ten Pleasures Of Marriage And The Second Part, The Confession Of The New Married Couple was written in 1682 and is attributed to Aphra Behn, the dramatist and poet, the first woman to earn her living by her pen. While the pen name for the work is A. Marsh and initials at the end of the letter to the reader, marked A.B. has lead to the assumption that Aphra Behn wrote this work. - Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature. Along with Delarivier Manley and Eliza Haywood, she is sometimes referred to as part of "The fair triumvirate of wit.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's catalogue at end. Original blue cloth. The adventures of one of Marsh's most intriguing characters, Miss Judith Lee, a young teacher of deaf pupils whose lip-reading ability involves her with mysteries that she solves by acting as a detective. Spine a little dulled and rubbed, minor marking, overall a very good copy. The adventures of one of Marsh's most intriguing characters, Miss Judith Lee, a young teacher of deaf pupils whose lip-reading ability involves her with mysteries that she solves by acting as a detective. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's catalogue at end dated March 1905. Original red cloth blocked in gilt. One of the obscurer titles by the author of The Beetle. Hubin-listed. Covers slightly mottled, otherwise a very good copy. One of the obscurer titles by the author of The Beetle. Hubin-listed. Book.

Typescript, 242pp., 4to, brown paper wraps, damage to top of spine but no loss, label on front with author ("Owen Edwards") and title. A semi-autobiographical novel based on Marsh's experiences during the Second World War in the London Ambulance Service. Initially a "Notice" "The characters in this book are fictitious. Some of the incidents are naturally based on real happenings during the war but they are none of them wholly accurate[.]". The novel starts with the hero, Lang, joining the Service. Subjects include: the work environment and fellow-workers; routine work on the Station; shifts; London background; women workers (even a "girl driver") ; state of repair of the ambulances; a German colleague; a Welsh colleague; bridge and solo; transporting wounded American soldiers from St Pancras Station; billiards; bedding arrangements (inc. "peephole to the girls' room"); the canteen inc. personnel; a communist; inter-station contests (first-aid etc); "auxiliaries who cracked up in the raids"; incidents during Blitz; practice and lectures; a "biting" lady instructor; hero wrote first aid based doggerel (examples given inc. "The Ballad of the Bones by A. Bonypart", p.99); [.]; "Occurrence Book"; etc., etc. A comprehensive portrait of the ambulance service and its personnel after the Blitz (although Marsh is said to have served during the Blitz.Box 41.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Plates. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. The first edition of Marsh's horror novel in which a shape-shifting ancient Egyptian entity exerts a hypnotic influence over his victims, leading to a series of strange and terrifying events in 1890s London. The novel unfolds through four narrators, each recounting their harrowing encounter with "the Beetle." The novel is often cited as a quintessential example of fin de siècle Gothic fiction, embodying the era's anxieties and. narrative innovations. Upon release, it was a sensation, and by 1913 it had gone through fifteen printings. Minor toning to margins; some rubbing and bumping to edges, cloth slightly softened at head of spine. Book.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; vi,311,[3]pp. Dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, else very Near Fine. In the pictorial dustjacket, priced $1.35 net at lower spine; lightly edgeworn, with a diagonal tear at upper spine panel, neatly mended on verso; Very Good+.Late novel by Marsh (1857-1915), English author of the best-selling novel The Beetle (1897), whose prodigious output of supernatural and crime fiction spanned the late 19th century until his death. First published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1914, in The Woman in the Car, Marsh "scatters blood generously - having doubtless argued that three corpses are just as easily drawn from the ink-bottle as one corpse. He makes no extra charge for quantity. Quality is provided, too for one corpse is shot, one is stabbed, and one is torn by a wild animal unfairly perplexing the police doctor. The last and most complicated corpse is driven furiously through the British night in a motor-car and deposited at the door of a London club. Then the story begins - when it is virtually finished; but, of course, the author, the police, and the readers have to disentangle the story together" (The Bookfellow: The Australasian Review and Journal of the Australasian Book Trade, Vol.4, No.4. 15 April, 1915). A scarce title in or out of dustjacket, and uncommonly well-preserved; OCLC notes a scant 6 holdings. Hubin, p.276.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1922 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 404 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 404 Language: English.

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