c1925 - Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop - Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow – "With Eight Engravings by W.H.C. Groome", part of the "Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics" series (possibly number 36), publisher's original red cloth boards, gilt lettering and designs to the spine, illustrated frontispiece, illustrated throughout, pp. 696 + several pages of publisher's advertisements – 16mo (15.5 x 10.5 cm) - similar books (novels) are dated from the beginning of the century to the mid-1920s, this volume is estimated by the Integrated Catalogue of the British Library to have been published in 1925 - rubbed and bumped, some minor marks and staining to the boards, small tear to the frontispiece, otherwise tight and bright throughout.
c1925 - Wilkie Collins - The Moonstone - Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow – part of the "Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics" series (possibly number 130), publisher's original red cloth boards, gilt lettering and designs to the spine, illustrated frontispiece, illustrated throughout, pp. 664 + several pages of publisher's advertisements – 16mo (15.5 x 10.5 cm) - similar books (novels) are dated from the beginning of the century to the mid-1920s, this volume is estimated to be 1925 because a similar volume in the same set is estimated as being published in 1925 by the Integrated Catalogue of the British Library - rubbed and bumped, some minor marks and staining to the boards, tight and bright throughout.
c1925 - Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow – "Illustrated by J. Monsell", part of the "Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics" series (possibly number 201), publisher's original red cloth boards, gilt lettering and designs to the spine, illustrated frontispiece, illustrated throughout, pp. 476 + several pages of publisher's advertisements – 16mo (15.5 x 10.5 cm) - similar books (novels) are dated from the beginning of the century to the mid-1920s, this volume is estimated to be 1925 because a similar volume in the same set is estimated as being published in 1925 by the Integrated Catalogue of the British Library - rubbed and bumped, some minor marks and staining to the boards, some very minor foxing, otherwise tight and bright throughout.
c1925 - Sir Walter Scott - The Chronicles of the Canongate - Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow – "Illustrated by Paul Hardy", part of the "Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics" series (possibly number 243), publisher's original red cloth boards, gilt lettering and designs to the spine, illustrated frontispiece, illustrated throughout, pp. 348 + several pages of publisher's advertisements – 16mo (15.5 x 10.5 cm) - similar books (novels) are dated from the beginning of the century to the mid-1920s, this volume is estimated to be 1925 because a similar volume in the same set is estimated as being published in 1925 by the Integrated Catalogue of the British Library - rubbed and bumped, some minor marks and staining to the boards, some cracking to the hinges, otherwise tight and bright throughout.
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