THE HOUSE OF DOCTOR DEE
Written by Peter Ackroyd.
Stock no. 1831214
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past. Black cloth boards, silver title to spine. 276 pages. ISBN: 0241125006. Slight lean to spine. Contents clean. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

GEORGE ELIOT: A LIFE
Written by Rosemary Ashton.
Stock no. 1831213
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd. 1st 1996. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

This biography of George Eliot traces her early years and her time, in 1851, as a journalist on the "Westminster Review". The author examines her relationship with Lewes, his encouragement, and Eliot's unrequited love for Chapman, her employer on the Review. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 465 pages including index. ISBN: 0241134730. Basde of spine lightly shelf-worn. Top edge of text block a little grubby. Gift inscription in ink to top edge of half-title page. Contents otherwise clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed, light wear to top & tail of spine, fading to spine.

TROLLOPE: A BIOGRAPHY
Written by N. John Hall.
Stock no. 1831210
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus 1993. Very good condition.

This authoritative biography draws a picture of an engaging, contradictory, extraordinary man and writer, one who left behind a legacy of some 70 novels. Red pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. xv and 581 pages plus publisher list to rear. ISBN: 0192830716. Spine is lightly sunned. Covers have light reading wear. Base of text block a little grubby. Contents clean.

AN EXPERIMENT IN CRITICISM
Written by C.S. Lewis.
Stock no. 1831202
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1969. Slightly better than very good condition.

In which Professor Lewis proposes that the quality of books should be measured not by how they are written, but by hProw often they are re-read. Small format. Red cardwraps. 142 pages. ISBN: 0521093503. Reprint. Spine and rear cover lightly browned. Small publisher price label to front cover. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.

SWIFT: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND SELECTED WRITINGS IN PROSE & VERSE
Written by Jonathan Swift; John Hayward.
Stock no. 1831192
Published by The Nonesuch Press. 1968. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The Nonesuch SWIFT in the Compendious Series. Edited by John Hayward. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xviii and 868 pages including notes. Top edge red. ISBN: 0370005171. Spine lightly sunned. Top red edge is fading at gutter edge and is lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and rear panel.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE: A VICTORIAN IN HIS WORLD
Written by Richard Mullen.
Stock no. 1831188
Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A biography of the famed 19th century novelist. The author intermixes details about Trollope's life with discussions such as the reading habits of the novel-reading public. He also describes and analyzes many of Trollope's forty-seven novels. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xiv and 767 pages including index. ISBN: 0715622935. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else, contents clean. Dustwrapper is faded/sunned to top edge of front panel and spine, is a little grubby and lightly creased.

THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE
Written by Michael Stapleton.
Stock no. 1831185
Published by Cambridge University Press. 1st 1983. Very good condition.

A guide to the literature of the English-speaking world from earliest times to 1970 in a single volume. The lives of many writers are described at some length, as well as major characters, subjects, and works of poetry, fiction, history, and philosophy. Blue cloth boards, gitl title to spine and crest to front board. B/w illustrations. xi and 992 pages. ISBN: 052125647X. Top & tail of spine and corners bumped. Base of spine ligthly discoloured. Text block grubby. contents clean.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 3
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater.
Stock no. 1831184
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st 1999. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 3: 'Gone Astray' and Other Papers from Household Words 1851-59. Edited by Michael Slater. Containing works never before collected together. Gone Astray picks up where The Amusements of the People leaves off, after the 1st 18 months of Dicken's contributions to HouseholdWords. Annotated. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxi and 542 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877267. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Cream dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 4
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater; John Drew.
Stock no. 1831176
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st 2000. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 4: The Uncommercial Traveller and Other Papers 1859-70. Edited by Michael Slater and John Drew. This is the fourth and final volume of the first annotated edition of Dickens' Journalism. It gathers together articles, essays and recollections published during the last decade of Dickens' life, before his untimely death in 1870, and represents the culmination of a lifetime's work in popular journalism. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxiii and 476 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877283. Boards clean. Text block slightly grubby. Couple of minor 'dints' to prelims else contents clean. Cream pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine, base of spine has a tear, no loss.

THE DENT UNIFORM EDITION OF DICKENS' JOURNALISM VOLUME 2
Written by Charles Dickens; Michael Slater.
Stock no. 1831172
Published by J.M. Dent. 1st thus 1996. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Volume 2: The Amusements of the People and Other Papers: Reports, Essays and Reviews 1834-51. Edited by Michael Slater. Slater reprints some of Dickens' best journalism from the period, including well-known pieces like "Pet Prisoners," "Old Lamps for New Ones," and "On Duty with Inspector Field," along with unfamiliar gems such as "Snoring for the Million" and "Demoralisation and Total Abstinence." Annotated. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxxviii and 408 pages including index. ISBN: 0460877275. Slight bump to top of spine. Boards clean. A few minor foxspots to text block and top edge of text block a bit grubby. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

THE EBB AND FLOW
Written by David Edwards.
Stock no. 1831153
Published by Indepenpress Publishing Limited. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Set in North Wales during the stirring Georgian period, The Ebb and Flow is a sweeping saga of power and corruption, friendship and loyalty, love and hate. Owen Tudur, the trusty Welsh steward to Sir John Littleton-Jones struggles with his increasingly divided loyalties and troubled conscience. Green cloth boards, silver title to spine. 168 pages. ISBN: 9781780033105. SIGNED by the author (with place and date) to title page. Very few spots to text block. A few minor corner creases. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners and lightly scuffed.

TWO TALES BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE: "THE SECRET" & "LILY HART"
Written by Charlotte Bronte; William Holtz.
Stock no. 1831128
Published by University Of Missouri Press. 1st thus 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Two early stories by Charlotte Bronte published for the first time in this volume. Transcribed and edited by William Holtz. Large format. Beige cloth spine with gilt title in a lilac title block, blue cloth boards with portrait to front. Includes facsimile text. 143 pages. ISBN: 0826202322. Light rubbing to lower board edges and small nick to cloth of rear board. Inscription in ink to front endpaper, title and colophon page - it appears the book was purchased initially from the Bronte Conference in Leeds 1978. Contents otherwise clean. Beige dustwrapper is browned, grubby with some marks and stains, worn to base of spine.