Fiction from Duck Cottage Books

Netherlands: Dragon's Dream, 1979. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 407 4to. Pictorial card covers, Introduction by Eric Kimball, unpaginated, sewn binding rather tight so, sadly, I can't offer many photographs of the inside without risking damage. Newspaper cuttings left laid in. Condition notes: Just-discernible bumping to the front cover. Needs careful handling to keep it in its current… Read more about this item

London: Ward Lock. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 420 8vo. Undated. Green blind-stamped cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board,, illustrations from photographic studies by Ellis and Walery, Baker St, London W., 420 pages plus publisher's catalogue/advertisements. Condition notes: Boards a little rubbed; a clean, bright, firm copy.

Bristol: J W Arrowsmith Ltd, 1914. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 257 12mo. Illustrated by L Raven Hill. "A New Edition". Red cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine, 259 pages and one page of publisher's advertisement ("Arrowsmith's 1/- Net Series of Cloth-Bound Novels (Pocket Sized"). Condition notes: Boards rubbed, some soiling, especially to spine, pages edge-darkened, binding pulling across… Read more about this item

London: Sunday School Union. 4th. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 213 8vo. Undated, but with a Sunday School Prize label dated 1884 to front free end paper. Dark green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine and front board, black illustration and decoration to front board, illustrations. Small octavo in size- just about 7.5" high. Condition notes: Front board detached,… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good. 426 8vo. A novel telling the story of how an ordinary man, a Belgian lawyer, lets himself be caught up in the service of the German army, and in spite of coming to understand the nature of the regime he is serving lacks the courage to act. … Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1869. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 521 8vo. With introductory notes by Michel Masson, followed by a bibliography of 'Xavier-Boniface Saintine' (pseudonym of Joseph Xavier Boniface, 1795-1865) (pp i-xxxi); there is a portrait of the author as frontispiece. Green calf, gilt decoration, marbled end papers, all edges marbled. School prize… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Garnier Freres. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 951 12mo. Nouvelle Edition, Précédée d'une Notice Biographique par Henri Clouzot. Undated. Geen cloth-covered boards, gilt titles, deckled edges. Complete in two volumes. Condition notes: Previous owner's stamp to front free end paper; a few faint pencil notes to margins. Bindings firm; a handsome and… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1922. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 500 8vo. Prepared for the press by Charles L. Shadwell. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Condition notes: Green cloth-covered boards a little knocked, cloth lifting slightly on rear board along junction with spine (possibly a manufacturing fault), otherwise a clean, tight copy, internally bright and attractive. Gift inscription to… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge and Sons. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 418 8vo. 'A New Edition'. Undated, but with previous owner's name dated 1881 to title page. Half leather, brown cloth-covered boards; external page edges protected by deckling. Condition notes: Boards and leather very worn (especially the leather), foxing to first few pages, end papers grubby; front board very… Read more about this item

London: Edward Moxon, 1840. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 1086 4to. A new edition, revised and corrected. Full leather, gilt decoration, including motif of Oxford Local Examinations, London to front. All edges marbled, marbled end papers. Prize label to Herbert Jameson Waterlow for his examination success in 1862. Condition notes: Leather rather knocked, front board detached, but binding… Read more about this item

London: George Routledge and Sons. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 418 8vo. Undated, but with previous owner's name dated 1881 to title page. Preface to the edition of 1840 followed by 'A Word to the Reader Prefixed to the First Editon of 1837'.' Half leather, brown cloth-covered boards. Condition notes: Boards and leather very worn (especially the leather),… Read more about this item

London: Blackie and Son Ltd. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 381 8vo. Red cloth covered boards, blind stamped decoration to front. Undated, but clearly early 20th century. Coloured frontispiece and other coloured illustrations. Condition notes: Spine faded. Fore edges with foxing/spotting, a little spotting to a few pages, otherwise clean and sound.

London: London Press Company. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 534 8vo. Undated, and no translator credited. Coloured frontispiece. Condition notes: The dark red boards are faded and there is some soiling to external page edges, otherwise this is a clean, sound copy.

London: The London Press Company. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 560 8vo. A Realistic Romance of Ancient Carthage". Undated, no translator credited. Coloured frontispiece, red cloth covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Condition notes: Spine faded, some marking to rear board, internally clean, bright and sound.

London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd, 1937. 2nd edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4600 8vo. Revised edition. Complete in four volumes. Blue boards, gilt titles to spine. Top edges gilt. "Rendered into English from the literal and complete French translation of Dr J.C.Mardrus". Condition notes: A little rubbing or spotting to the boards, and some spotting to fore… Read more about this item

Milan: La Societa Tipografica de' Classici Italiani, 1804. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 1864 8vo. Illustrato con note tratte de varj dal Dott. Giulio Ferrario". Complete in three volumes. A collection of 100 stories by various authors (Volumes 1 and 2) and Volume 3 (1810) 'La prima e la seconda cena novelle di Antonfrancesco Grazzini detto il Lasca,… Read more about this item

Rochester: Edwin Harris and Sons, 1902. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 478 8vo. Quarter leather, red pebble-finish cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration and titles, darker red leather to spine strip, also with gilt titles. Marbled end papers, red-deckled page edges, illustrations by Harold Bird. Condition notes: Boards a little knocked, spine strip unaccountably trimmed at the top… Read more about this item

Rochester: Edwin Harris and sons, 1903. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 476 8vo. Quarter leather, red pebble-finish cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration and titles, darker red leather to spine strip, also with gilt titles. Marbled end papers, red-deckled page edges, illustrations. Richard Watts was a prominent citizen of Rochester in the time of Elizabeth I, and… Read more about this item

London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 526 8vo. Black cloth-covered boards, bevelled edges. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Scots glossary at end, followed by publisher's catalogue for March 1896. Condition notes: Boards worn and bumped, internally clean and bright, apart from age-tanning to end papers. Very occasional pencil marks to… Read more about this item

London: Country Life, 1943. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 725 8vo. Being the story of Elizabeth at Brierley Farm, of her friend Ted, of Jim the Sheepdog, Billie the Lamb, Sir Reynard Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Brock the Badgers, and other creatures of farm and countryside". Blue boards, red titles. First edition. Illustrated by Lionel… Read more about this item