Nineteenth-century fiction.

Armytage, Lewis. Out of Tune. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & co., 1887, 2 volumes, association copy with a presentation inscription on front endpaper of volume 1 by the author's son R.N. Green Armytage ("...a souvenir of my mother & her | own friend..."), advertisements at the end of both volumes, original blue cloth blocked and and lettered in black and gilt, two publisher's flyers loosely inserted in volume 2, cutting of review of Heine's Florentine Nights attached to front endpaper of volume 1, minor wear, some foxing--Beckett, Arthur à. Fallen Among Thieves. A Novel of "Interest". London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 3 volumes, author's first book, half-titles, original green morocco cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers [Wolff 1], neat repairs to binding--Besant, Walter. All in a Garden Fair. The Simple Story of Three Boys and a Girl. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, 3 volumes, half-title in volume 1, advertisements at the end of volume 3, original pictorial blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers, [Sadleir 177; Wolff 429], minor wear to binding, some hinges beginning to crack; Herr Paulus. His Rise, His Greatness, and his Fall. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888, 3 volumes, advertisements at the end of volume 2, original brown sand-grain cloth, blocked in shaded blue, spines lettered in gilt, grey floral endpapers [Sadleir 189; Wolff 448], minor edge wear; St. Katherine's by the Tower. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891, 3 volumes, frontispieces and illustrations, original olive-green cloth with all-over thistle design, spines gilt, floral endpapers [Wolff 461], some slight wear to edges of binding--Beste, J. Richard. Alcazar; or, the Dark Ages. A Novel. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857, 3 volumes, half-titles, advertisements at the end of volume 3, original green cloth decorated in blind, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, reddish-brown endpapers, contemporary ownership signatures of Mr Joshua Gledhill (dated 1866), book-labels of Douglas C. Ewing, bookstamps of the Leeds book auctioneers Doidge [Wolff 472]--Black, William. White Wings: A Yachting Romance. London: Macmillan and co., 1880, half-titles, advertisements at the end of volume 2, chocolate brown endpapers, original blue cloth ruled in black and lettered in gilt [Wolff 514; not in Sadleir], some slight wear to binding, some slight spotting; The Beautiful Wretch. The Four Macnicols. The Pupil of Aurelius. Three Stories... London: Macmillan and co., 1881, 3 volumes, advertisements at the end of volume 1, original blue cloth ruled and black and lettered in gilt, chocolate brown endpapers  [Sadleir 211; Wolff 491]--Brierley, Ben. "Ab-o'th-Yate" Sketches and other short stories...Edited by James Dronsfield. Illustrated by F.W. Jackson. Oldham: W.E. Clegg, 1896, 3 volumes, half-titles in volumes 2 and 3, original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, top edges gilt, later ownership signature and stamp, [Wolff 815], offsetting to endpapers, minor edge-wear; first editions, 8vo (26)

Beste, Alcazar: 

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