London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge / SPCK / S.P.C.K., n.d. [1885]. hardcover. 222pp, +4 publisher's ads. With a guarded frontis and two other plates. Decorative blue endpapers: front endpaper and half title neatly removed. Sections with original rusted staples visible at some gutter openings. Pages clean and firm, with..... More

Dublin: M.H.Gill and Son, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. [iii]-xiv, 722. Fiction, set in the late 18th century, preceded by an historical Introduction to set the scene. Contents clean and firm, with faint toning to edges. No half-title, new endpapers, top edge tinted. c.19x12cms, recently rebacked, with the original firm but..... More

London: Everyman, J.M.Dent & Sons. 1919. Reprints. Hardcover. xiv, 240, xiv, 237, xiv, 230pp, each with 50 full-page illustrations. Printed on firm paper, and apparently unread, all three books are internally in very fresh and firm unmarked condition. Top edges tinted blue. In the blue cloth of the 'For Young..... More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1880. Reprint. Hardcover. iv, 380pp, illustrated. Contents very clean. 19.5x12.5cms, in the original binding of crimson pebble cloth, ruled and decorated in black, spine titled in gilt, and with Ainsworth's signature in gilt to the upper board. Slightly darkened, spine ends restored and a pale..... More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1880. Reprint. Hardcover. viii, 416pp, illustrated. Contents clean and unmarked, with faint toning to the endpapers. 19.5x12.5cms, in the original binding of red pebble cloth, ruled and decorated in black, spine titled in gilt, and with Ainsworth's signature in gilt to the upper board. Boards..... More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 338pp. Contents clean and fresh. Firm, in the original art nouveau decorative binding of green cloth blocked in orange, red and green, and titled in gilt. Boards bright, with a partial (coffee?) ring stain to the front; spine title..... More

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, n.d. [c.1925]. Hardcover. x, 318pp; [vi], 311pp. Very attractively produced, with 20 coloured plates. Pages (and plates) fresh and clean, except for a few pages towards the end of Vol II, one of which is very soiled (see photo). In the original bindings..... More

London: Horace Marshall & Son, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 343pp +(i) adverts. Slight browning to endpapers, contents otherwise very clean and unmarked. In the original binding of red cloth over bevelled boards, spine ruled and titled in gilt, publishers' insignia bright gilt on the back. Upper board clean, spine..... More

London: James Blackwood, n.d. First or early UK edition. Hardcover. 287, [i] adverts: with head- and tail-pieces to the chapters of the main title, and with 8 plates, including the frontis. The short tales occupy the last 70 pages. Front free endpaper removed, contents otherwise very fresh and clean. Top..... More

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1879. Copyright Edition. Hardcover. Tauchnitz Vols 1820 & 1821. 287, [i]; 288. Contents very clean. Lower corners of first title and dedication page torn away and repaired, with minor spotting to title. Half title to second volume not present. Edges sprinkled. In new green cloth with printed..... More

London: Frederick Warne & Co., n.d. [1874]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. [iv], 187pp, and a frontis with a tanned guard. Some light foxing, and two early gift inscriptions (one, a prize, and underlined in pencil, is dated January 1875) to front endpaper. All edges gilt. 15.5x10.5cms, in the original binding..... More

London: Macmillan, 1863. Third edition. Hardcover. [2] (adverts), [vi], 289, (i), [2] (adverts); [iv], 271, (i), [24] (adverts). Early ownership flourish to half-titles. Upper corners of title and adjacent pages of Vol II are slightly damaged and have been made good. Contents clean with occasional minor soiling. In the original..... More