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  • The refugees: A tale of two continents

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder, March 15, 1903)
    Physical description; viii, 384, 24 p. ; 20 cm. Subject; English fiction 19th century.
  • Between the lines,

    Boyd Cable

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder, March 15, 1916)
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  • The Amateur Poacher

    Richard Jefferies

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder, Jan. 1, 1879)
    John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. For all that, these show a remarkable diversity, including Bevis (1882), a classic children's book, and After London (1885), an early work of science fiction. For much of his adult life, he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in The Story of My Heart (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings on the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time. But it is his success in conveying his awareness of nature and people within it, both in his fiction and in essay collections such as The Amateur Poacher (1879) and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have been blind all our lives; here were the most wonderful things possible going on under our very noses, but we saw them not."[1]
  • The white company

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder, Aug. 16, 1908)
    Physical description; 416 pages. Subjects; Doyle, Arthur Conan Sir (1859-1930). English fiction 20th century.
  • The broken road

    A. E. W. Mason

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder, Jan. 1, 1910)
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  • Round the fire stories

    Arthur Conan DOYLE

    Hardcover (Smith Elder & Co, March 15, 1908)
    London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1908. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-372 [373-376: ads], inserted frontispiece with illustration by A. Castaigne, original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition. 6000 copies printed. Collection of seventeen stories, mostly criminous or fantastic, the latter including "The Leather Funnel," an antiquarian ghost story worthy of M. R. James, "Playing With Fire," and "The Brown Hand." Also present are the nearly-Sherlockian stories "The Man With the Watches" and "The Lost Special." Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 554. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-73. Bleiler (1978), p. 63. Green and Gibson A33a. Wolff 1914.
  • The Book of Snobs and Sketches and Travels in London

    William Makepeace Thackeray

    (Smith, Elder & Co, Jan. 1, 1879)
    Band wat verkleurd / Discolouration, Rug beschadigd / Spine damaged, With illustrations by the author, Boekband los / Cover loose / / English literature / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / hard cover / 13 x 20 cm / 396 .pp /
  • The Rose And The Ring

    W M Thackeray

    Hardcover (Smith Elder & Co, Aug. 16, 1873)
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  • Jess, a Novel

    H. Rider Haggard; Illustrator-Maurice Greiffenhagen

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder & Co, Sept. 3, 1899)
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  • The Four Feathers

    A. E. W. Mason

    Hardcover (SMITH, ELDER & CO., March 15, 1902)
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  • "Murphy",: A message to dog-lovers,

    Ernest Gambier-Parry

    Hardcover (Smith, Elder & co, Sept. 3, 1912)
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  • Robert Elsmere

    Mrs. Humphry Ward

    (Smith, Elder & Co, July 6, 1890)
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