Search Results: Short Stories from Richard Beaton

London: Arthur H. Stockwell, 1902. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. "Popular Stories No XVI". Frontispiece. Original blue cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Paper lightly tanned throughout, hand-typed prize plate on front free endpaper, good. Crime and other stories..

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1846. Book. Good. Hardcover. Reprint. Mid C19th fine-ribbed black cloth, with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt on spine, yellow endpapers. Neatly rebacked (50 years ago), inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), undated signature on front pastedown, good. There is no indication of authorship nor any illustrations in this edition. The "other stories" are The Traveller in Spite of Himself, The Hour of Fortune & Crocodile Island..

London: The Gresham Publishing Company, 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Undated edition, c1900 - 1905. Introduction by W. A. Brockington. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. Original steel-blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; grey endpapers. Scuffed on spine ends, with small nick at foot, very good.Gresham published this title in at least three different bindings: maroon leather with green boards, a decorated navy blue cloth with designs by Talwyn Morris, and this simpler blue cloth. After Dark consists of six stories (A Terribly Strange Bed, A Stolen Letter, Sister Rose, The Lady of Glenwith Grange, Gabriel's Marriage & The Yellow Mask), with a linking narrative, purportedly by Leah Kerby who has "collected" the stories..

Glasgow: William Hodge, 1893. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original mauve cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt. Spine a little darkened with small loss of cloth at head, front board sunned along edges, otherwise clean and tight: good.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1898. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Original pinky-brown cloth on bevelled boards. A few faint foxing spots in text, pencilled inscription on front free endpaper, very good..

London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Fifth Edition. Illustrated. Original crimson cloth, framed, decorated and lettered in black and gilt, brown endpapers. Lightly sunned on spine, corners bumped, very good. First issued as a three-decker by Strahan in 1873. Issued anonymously as "by the author of The Schönberg-Cotta Family"..

London: Thomas Nelson, 1868. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. "With Fine Steel Engravings". Original lilac cloth on bevelled boards with blindstamped framing, lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. Spine sunned with ancient repair to tips, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), gift inscription (1869) on front free endpaper, good. Nine stories: Alice Stanley, The Fisherman, The For Saleier's Wife, Seven and Seventeen, The Rose of Fennock Dale, The Anxious Wife, We'll See About It, The Story of Edwin the Exile of Deira..

London: Remington & Co., 1877. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original green cloth, decorated in black and lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. Spine ends and corners a little rubbed, undated signature on front free endpaper, good. A collection of short stories.

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1896. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original cream cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top edge gilt. Decorated title page. Clean and bright, but cracked (and repaired) across bottom half of rear board, with crease to cloth on spine: thus only fair/good. A scarce collection..

London: C. Arthur Pearon, 1898. Book. Good. Disbound. 1st Edition.. Extracted from Pearson's Magazine, Vol VI. Two short stories. Complete. A little foxing, good..

London: Edwin Dalton, 1908. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Illustrated. original blue cloth, lettered and decorated in black and white on front board, in black white and gilt on spine. A few light marks, prize plate on front pastedown, a couple of leaves have short lateral tears (without loss), good. Stories of city missionary work..

London: Edward Arnold, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original beige cloth with figure of barrister in black and red lettering on front board; framed and lettered in red and black on spine. Board edges and spine a little darkened, undated signature on front pastedown, good+. "The tales in this volume are the real reminiscences of a family. All the characters in this volume were real; the people are not fictitious, but lived, and were either known to or known of by the writer" (Author's Preface)..

London: Edward Arnold, 1904. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original beige cloth with figure of barrister in black and red lettering on front board; framed and lettered in red and black on spine. Board edges and spine a little grubby, undated signature on title page, good+. "The tales in this volume are.the real reminiscences of a family.All the characters in this volume were real; the people are not fictitious, but lived, and were either known to or known of by the writer" (Author's Preface)..

London: William Heinemann, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. First British Edition.. Original red cloth, lettered in black. Some light marks, specks and spots on boards, spine lightly sunned, a several signatures on prelims, good. Crime stories, first published in the USA in 1927..

London.: William Heinemann, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original pale grey cloth, framed in black on boards and lettered in black on spine; bound without separate endpapers (ie first and last page of first and last gathering have become pastedowns). Spine a little darkened, otherwise good. Collection of thirteen short stories. The slightly odd binding up of this book suggests it may be a remainder issue..

London: Macmillan & Co., 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original red cloth ruled in black and gilt on front board, in blind on rear board, lettered in gilt on spine. Circular impressed stamp ("Presentation Copy") on title page. A few light marks on cloth, corners scuffed, light foxing on prelims, very good. Sixteen short stories reflecting Forbes's experiences as a war correspondent..

London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original illustrated green cloth, lettered in red, black and gilt. Corners lightly scuffed, foxing spots on early pages, tear to edge of blank prelim, otherwise very good. Tales of the Kentish coast during the Napoleonic Wars..

London: Charles Kelly, 1897. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Original black cloth on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Endpapers lightly browned, otherwise very good. A sequel to Clog Shop Chronicles -- 9 tales of Lancashire life: The Student, Leah's Lover, Sally's Redemption, Lige's Legacy, The Memory of the Just, Isaac's Angel, Isaac's Fiddle, The Harmonium, The Haunted Man..

London: Jarrolds, 1919. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1919]. Original beige cloth, lettered in red and illustrated in black. A few light marks, small hand-written name and address on slip of paper attached to front free endpaper, pages lightly tanned on edges, otherwise very good. A miscellany of stories and sketches..

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1890. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Early C20th library binding: wavy-grained brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine (including shelf-marks), occasional library stamps ("The Noble Library, Lambeth") throughout, smudgy marks in margins: a good reading copy, of a scarce title. A collection of short stories and novelettes by the less well-known and less successful of the Gerard sisters. The stories are: Elias of Blotatyn, Two Robbers: A Legend, Magda's Cow, Grey Fur & His Uncle and Her Grandmother. The stories are reprinted from various journals, with the epigraph "Be well advised, tell o'er the tale again" -- Shakespeare..