AGUILAR _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ AGUILAR, Grace, 1816-47 lettered in gilt; cloth a little darkened. Owner’s Born of Jewish-Spanish parents in Hackney, stamp on leading f.e.p. Aguilar began writing for a living before she was ¶Not in Wolff. Prolific novelist, born in twenty, following the death of her father. Her early Australia. published work was on Jewish subjects; she later turned to fiction. Home Influence was her most 1899 £40 successful novel described by the author as 'a story illustrative of a mother's solemn responsibilities, 7. ALBANESI, Effie Maria. Drusilla’s Point of intense anxiety to fulfil them and deep sense of the View: a story of love. Copyright edn. Leipzig: Influence of Home'. Bernhard Tauchnitz. Half title. Contemp. half black calf, black cloth boards, maroon leather 1. Home Influence. A tale for mothers and label; spine & leading hinges rubbed. daughters. Copyright edn. 2 vols. Leipzig: ¶Todd 4054. Bernhard Tauchnitz. Half titles. Neat contemp. 1908 £20 brown cloth. v.g. ¶Todd 464b & 465. Both vols signed Amy ALCOTT, Louisa May, 1832-88 Jones of Abberley Hall. American novelist best remembered for Little 1859 £30 Women (1868-9), her semi-autobiographical story of family life in Massachusetts. The main character Jo 2. Home Influence. ... W. Nicholson & Sons. Half is most identifiable with the author, but unlike her title, front., vignette title, 7pp ads. Orig. maroon protagonist Alcott never married. She received some cloth, bevelled boards, blocked in black, lettered literary instruction from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, both family friends. in gilt. v.g. [c.1890] £20 8. Jo's Boys, and how they turned out: a sequel to “Little Men”. 4th edn. Sampson Low, Marston, 3. The Mother’s Recompense. A sequel to Home Searle, & Rivington. Front. port., 3pp ads + Influence. George Routledge & Sons. Front., 32pp cata. (Oct. 1889). Orig. blue/green cloth, added engr. title & plates, 8pp ads. Orig. olive bevelled boards, pictorially blocked in maroon & green cloth, bevelled boards with multi-coloured olive green, lettered in gilt; sl. rubbing. a.e.g. A blocking; sl. rubbing, lacking leading f.e.p. good-plus copy. a.e.g. ¶First published in 1886. ¶Topp indicates that Routledge purchased 1890 £35 the rights from Groombridge in August 1888. LITTLE WOMEN [c.1890] £25 9. Little Women. Illustrated by M.V. Wheelhouse. Collins’ Clear-Type Press. (Collins’ Home 4. The Mother's Recompense. A sequel to “Home Library.) Half title, front. + 2 plates in colour, Influence”. W. Nicholson & Sons. Half title, illus. on e.ps. Orig. olive green cloth, blocked in 6pp ads. Orig. green cloth, blocked in black, black & pale green, lettered in black & gilt. v.g. lettered in gilt; dulled and sl. marked. Prize ¶This edition not in BL. label, 1914. [c.1910] £20 ¶This edition, published by W. Nicholson, not in BL or on COPAC. 10. Little Women. Illustrated by M.V. Wheelhouse. [c.1895?] £20 G. Bell & Sons. (Queen’s Treasures series.) Half __________ title, front. + 7 plates in colour, 6pp ads, illus. on e.ps. Orig. pale orange cloth, pictorially blocked 5. AIKIN, Lucy. Memoir of John Aikin, M.D. & lettered in white; spine v. sl. faded. v.g. With a selection of his miscellaneous pieces, 1921 £20 biographical, moral, and critical. 2 vols. FIRST EDITION. Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy. Engr. 11. Nice Wives: a sequel to “Little Women”. front. port. vol. I. Uncut in orig. blue boards, Goubaud & Son. (The Daisy Library.) 10pp beige cloth spines, paper labels; spines worn & cata. Orig. brown cloth, lettered & blocked in chipped, boards sl. marked, cloth missing from black & gilt, front board with small floral onlay corners. A good, internally clean copy in an in pink, white, green & gilt; v. sl. rubbing. Gift unusual binding. inscription, Christmas 1889. A v.g. copy. 1823 £180 ¶This edition not in BL or on COPAC. COPAC lists three titles in The Daisy 6. ALBANESI, Effie Maria. The Blunder of an Library, none dated, but all c.1880. ‘Good Innocent. FIRST EDITION. Hutchinson & Co. Wives’, as it is more commonly known, was Half title, 5pp ads; e.ps a little browned. Orig. first published in 1869. olive green cloth, front board blocked in blind, [1880?] £40 ALCOTT _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Rose in Bloom: a sequel to “Eight Cousins”. 17. The Heritage of Langdale. Cheap edn. Illustrated by Harriet Roosevelt Richards. Hutchinson & Co. Half titles, 4pp ads. Orig. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Half title, front., dark green cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; sl. vignette title, plates. Orig. olive green cloth, rubbed. A good-plus copy. pictorially blocked in white, black & pale green, ¶Not in Wolff. lettered in white & gilt.; a little dulled & sl. 1894 £30 rubbed. Hazel A. Benham’s booklabel & signature. A good-plus copy. 18. Stronger than Love. Copyright edn. 2 vols. ¶The first edition was published in 1876. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. Contemp. half 1906 £20 black calf, black cloth boards, maroon leather labels; a bit worn. 13. Louisa May Alcott, her Life, Letters, and ¶Todd 3607 & 3608. Title not in Wolff. Journals; ed. by Ednah D. Cheney. FIRST 1902 £20 ENGLISH EDITION. Sampson Low. Half title, front. Uncut in orig. maroon cloth; faded & sl. rubbed, sl. wear at head of spine. Inscription on 19. What Gold Cannot Buy. FIRST EDITION. F.V. verso of leading f.e.p., Christmas 1889. White & Co. Half titles, 16pp cata. Orig. red ¶Louisa Alcott died in 1888. cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt, front board lettered in black; spine faded and a 1889 £30 little worn. __________ ¶Not in Wolff. 14. ALEXANDER, Cecil Frances. Poems. Edited, 1895 £35 with a preface, by William Alexander. FIRST EDITION. Macmillan and Co. Half title, front. 20. The Wooing o’t: a novel. 8th edn. Richard port., 4pp ads; partially unopened. Orig. blue Bentley & Son. (Favourite novels.) Half title, cloth, blocked & lettered in gilt; spine sl. faded. 8pp cata. Orig. black cloth; sl. rubbing. v.g. v.g. ¶See Sadleir 41 for the 1873 3-volume first ¶The Norfolk-born author moved to Ireland, edition; Wolff 3129 had only this edition. marrying the rector of Termonamongan, 1890 £35 Derry - a wild parish, 'with a church __________ population of some 1,500 people, scattered over bogs and mountains for many miles'. 1896 £35 21. (ALSOP, C.M.) BRAITHWAITE, Martha. Memorials of Christine Majolier Alsop. ALEXANDER, Mrs, pseud. Compiled by Martha Braithwaite. All rights (Annie Hector, née French), 1825-1902 reserved. Samuel Harris & Co. Half title, front. Dublin-born, Alexander came to England when port; light foxing in prelims. Orig. brown cloth, her lawyer father lost his money. She was bevelled boards, blocked in black, lettered in gilt. encouraged to write by Mrs. S.C. Hall, Eliza Linton Presentation inscription dated 1881, Renier and W.H. Wills, Dickens's sub-editor on booklabel. v.g. Household Words where her first works were ¶The autobiography of a Quaker with letters published. 'Alexander's fiction typically revolves and journals. The editor writes from around a young girl torn between money, family & Camden Road, London. love, often complicated by a legacy'. (Sutherland.) 1881 £30 15. By Woman’s Wit. A novel. 2 vols F.V. White INSCRIBED & Co. Half titles. Orig. scarlet cloth, spines lettered in gilt, front boards lettered in black; a 22. ANDERSEN, Lucy A Holiday in Italy. New bit darkened & rubbed, boards with partially edn, carefully revised. Walter Scott. Half title, removed library labels. final ad. leaf. Orig. scarlet cloth, bevelled ¶Not in Wolff. boards, blocked in black, lettered in gilt; spine faded, front board sl. marked along upper 1886 £125 margin. A good-plus copy. 16. For His Sake. Copyright edn. 2 vols. Leipzig: ¶2nd edition, with considerable additions Bernhard Tauchnitz. (Collection of British and alterations. With inscription on leading authors. vol. 2853-54.) Half title vol. I; prelims f.e.p.: ‘Nellie French, from her friend the vol. II removed. Dark green Biarritz Library authoress Lucy Andersen, May 1893’. This title not in BL. National Library of Scotland binding; spine faded to brown. and Trinity College Dublin date this as ¶Todd 2853a; Wolff 3118 is an undated [1890]. By the author of Copenhagen and yellowback. its Environs. 1892 £20 [1890] £35 ANETHAN _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 23. ANETHAN, Eleanora Mary d’, Baroness. very nicely rebacked in morocco; spines sl. His Chief’s Wife. FIRST EDITION. Chapman faded. v.g. & Hall. Half title; leading f.e.p. removed. ¶This appears to be by a female writer. Uncut in orig. dark blue cloth, lettered & First issued by Edward Bull as The Female pictorially blocked in silver; spine faded. A Freemasons in 1840. See Wolff 7461. This good-plus copy. reissue as ‘Cecil Merryville’ is not in the BL or listed on COPAC. ¶Not in Wolff. Expatriate life in Brazil. 1844 £380 1897 £40 24. ANLEY, Charlotte. Earlswood; or, Lights and 29. Chilcote Park; or, The Sisters. By the author of Shadows of the Anglican Church. A tale for ‘Likes and Dislikes’. John W. Parker & Sons. the times, and all time. FIRST EDITION. Leading inner hinge repaired. Contemp. half T. Hatchard. Half title; sl. browned. Orig. maroon calf, spine with raised bands, black brown cloth, blocked in blind, small gilt leather label sl. chipped; a little faded. monogram at centre of front board, spine lettered 1860 £40 in gilt; inner hinges cracking, a little rubbed. Owner’s inscription on initial blank, 1877. 30. Days of Old. Three stories from old English ¶Not in Wolff. Tractarian novel. History. For the young. By the author of “Ruth and her Friends”. Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1852 £85 Front., title in red & black. Contemp. half blue calf, spine with raised gilt bands and maroon 25. (ANLEY, Charlotte) Miriam; or, The Power leather label; a little faded.