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Books and the Quiet Life: Being some pages from The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing chosen by W R B

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1922. First Edition. [Coustillas H1.1a] Quarter cloth over decorated paper boards in slipcase. One of nine hundred and fifty copies. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Paper label on spine and edges of boards darkening. Slipcase worn with top edge partially detached. Very Good+/Fair.
Catalogue number Gissing5/461 Price: £50

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1922. Second Edition. [Coustillas H1.2a] Light blue decorated paper boards. One of nine hundred and fifty copies. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Newspaper cutting laid loosely in which has caused light shading to two pages. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/462 Price: £25

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1922. Second Edition. [Coustillas H1.2a] Light blue decorated paper boards. One of nine hundred and fifty copies. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Inscription on ffep. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/463 Price: £25


Selections Autobiographical and Imaginative from the Works of George Gissing

With Biographical and Critical Notes by his Son. With an introduction by Virginia Woolf. Jonathan Cape, 1929. [Coustillas H2a] Cloth. Spine and end papers clumsily replaced. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/464 Price: £20

With Biographical and Critical Notes by his Son. With an introduction by Virginia Woolf. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. [Coustillas H2b] Cloth. Bookplate on fep, small mark on rear board. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/465 Price: £30

With Biographical and Critical Notes by his Son. With an introduction by Virginia Woolf. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. [Coustillas H2b] Cloth. Spine slightly worn and faded, small bookplate on fep. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/466 Price: £25


On the Ownership of Books: Being some excerpts from that wise and delightful volume The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Privately printed, 1937. [Coustillas H4] Stiff wrappers. One of one hundred copies printed from hand set type by Carroll D. Coleman at the Prairie Press, for private distribution, Christmas, 1937. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/467 Price: £125


Stray Leaves From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

Westport, Conn.: The Redcoat Press, 1942. [Coustillas H6] Decorated paper covered boards with cloth spine. Mark on front board, corners rubbed, spine dulled but a nice little book. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/468 Price: £35


Un'ispirazione ed altre novelle

Scelta, Introduzione e Traduzione a cura di Francesco Badolato. Como: Schisano, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/469 Price: £10

Scelta, Introduzione e Traduzione a cura di Francesco Badolato. Como: Schisano, 1970. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/470 Price: £10

Firenze: Edipem, 1975. Dark blue leatherette, gilt. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/471 Price: £15


Six Short Stories

Introduzione e note di Francesco Badolato. Treviso: Edizioni Canova, 1973. Card covers. (Text in English, introduction in Italian) Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/472 Price: £10


George Gissing on Fiction

Including The Coming of the Preacher and The English Novel of the Eighteenth Century. Edited, with an introduction and notes by Jacob & Cynthia Korg. Enitharmon Press, 1978. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/473 Price: £20


Nouvelles choisies

Presentees par Pierre Coustillas. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1980. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/474 Price: £10

Presentees par Pierre Coustillas. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1980. Card covers. Spine faded. Inscribed by editor. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/475 Price: £10


The Selected Works of George Gissing

Tokyo: Shubun International Ltd, 1988. Five volumes. (Japanese translation of six works by Gissing) Vol. 1: New Grub Street, translated by Osamu Doi. [Coustillas A9.27b] Vol. 2: Born in Exile, translated by Kazuo Mizokawa. [Coustillas A11.15a] Vol. 3: The Odd Women, translated by Ryoko Ota. [Coustillas A12.19a] Vol. 4: Sleeping Fires, translated by Osamu Doi, [Coustillas A15.8a] and By the Ionian Sea, translated by Shigeru Koike. [Coustillas A23.26] Vol. 5: Charles Dickens: a Critical Study, translated by Shigeru Koike and Ryota Kanayama. [Coustillas A19.12a] Dark blue cloth. All volumes inscribed by translators. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/476 Price: £100


Aphorisms and Reflections

Edited with an introduction by P. F. Kropholler. Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1989. [Coustillas H9a] Stiff wrappers. One of edition limited to 125 copies set in Baskerville type. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/477 Price: £45


Da Venezia allo Stretto di Messina

Introduzione e traduzione di Francesco Badolato. Roma: Herder Editore, 1989. [Coustillas H10] Card covers. (Italian translation of the parts of Gissing's Diary relating to Italy) Inscribed by translator. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/478 Price: £25


The Zest of Life

Edited with an introduction and exercises by Francesco Babolato. Barzago: Marna Scuola, 2003. [Coustillas H13] Paperback. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/479 Price: £10


Works about Gissing

ANNEN, Ulrich. George Gissing und die Kurzgeschichte. Bern: Francke Verlag, 1973. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/480 Price: £20

BADOLATO, Francesco. George Gissing: Antologia Critica. Rome: Herder Editrice, 1984. Card covers. Inscribed by the editor. (Critical anthology with the editorial material in Italian but most of the essays - some very significant - in English) Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/481 Price: £30

BADOLATO, Francesco. Il Vittoriano Solitario in Calabria. Milano: Editrice Mondo Letterio, 1968. Card covers. Inscribed by author. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/482 Price: £10

BRIDGWATER, Patrick. Gissing and Germany. Enitharmon Press, 1981. Cloth in dust wrapper. Limited to 500 copies. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/483 Price: £5

BROOK, Clifford. George Gissing and Wakefield: A novelist's associations with his home town. With an introductory essay by Pierre Coustillas. Wakefield: Second (Revised) Edition. The Gissing Trust, 1992. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/484 Price: £3

COLLIE, Michael. The Alien Art: A Critical Study of George Gissing's Novels. Folkestone: Dawson, 1979. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/485 Price: £15

COLLIE, Michael. George Gissing a Bibliographical Study. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1985. (Originally published as George Gissing a Bibliography in 1975.) Extensively revised and extended. One of edition limited to 500 copies. Dark blue cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/486 Price: £8

COLLIE, Michael. George Gissing: a Bibliography. Folkestone: Dawson, 1975. Brown cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped and rubbed. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/487 Price: £5

COLLIE, Michael. George Gissing: a Biography. Folkestone: Dawson, 1977. Light blue cloth. A little faded and rubbed. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/488 Price: £15

COLLIE, Michael. George Gissing: a Biography. Folkestone: Dawson, 1977. Light blue cloth. Bottom of ffep cut off. Very Good. £12
Catalogue number Gissing5/489 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. (Edited by) Collected Articles on George Gissing. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1968. Green cloth in dust wrapper. Ex-library with label, stamps and tape marks on end papers. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/490 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. (Edited by) Collected Articles on George Gissing. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1968. Green cloth in dust wrapper. Mark of sticker on front cover. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/491 Price: £20

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing and Ivan Turgenev. Including Two Letters from Turgenev. Enitharmon Press, 1981. Limited to 250 copies. Wrappers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/492 Price: £12

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing at Alderley Edge. Enitharmon Press, 1969. One of edition of 250 numbered copies. Brown cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/493 Price: £20

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing at Alderley Edge. Enitharmon Press, 1969. One of edition of 250 numbered copies. Brown cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded and marked on spine. Near Fine/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/494 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing at Alderley Edge. Enitharmon Press, 1971. Second edition of 200 copies printed by photo-lithography. Green cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped, torn at top and repaired with tape. Near Fine/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/495 Price: £10

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing: The Definitive Bibliography. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2005. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/496 Price: £50

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Blue cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper price clipped. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/497 Price: £25

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Blue cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded on spine. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/498 Price: £20

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Blue cloth in dust wrapper. Signed by Pierre Coustillas on title page and with inscription on ffep which reads "C. C. Kohler, Given to me by the publishers, Nov. '72." Pencil marks in text. Dust wrapper faded on spine with small tear on rear cover. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/499 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Blue cloth in dust wrapper. Ex-library with stamps and labels, dust wrapper faded on spine. Very Good/Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/500 Price: £10

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Paperback. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/501 Price: £12

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. Gissing's Writings on Dickens: A Bio-bibliographical Survey by Pierre Coustillas, together with two uncollected reviews by George Gissing from The Times Literary Supplement. Enitharmon Press, 1969. One of edition of 275 numbered copies. Grey cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/502 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. Gissing's Writings on Dickens: A Bio-bibliographical Survey by Pierre Coustillas, together with two uncollected reviews by George Gissing from The Times Literary Supplement. Enitharmon Press, 1969. One of edition of 275 numbered copies this being number 6. Grey cloth in dust wrapper. Signed by author on half title page and with pencil inscription on ffep which reads " C. C. Kohler January 1970 this copy given to me by the publisher Alan Clodd." Dust wrapper faded on spine. Near Fine/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/503 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. Gissing's Writings on Dickens: A Bio-bibliographical Survey by Pierre Coustillas, together with two uncollected reviews by George Gissing from The Times Literary Supplement. Enitharmon Press, 1969. One of edition of 275 numbered copies. Grey cloth in dust wrapper. Ex-Library with bookplate on endpapers. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/504 Price: £10

DAVIS, Oswald H. George Gissing: a Study in Literary Leanings. Privately printed, 1965. Green cloth in dust wrapper. Presentation copy from family of author. Dust wrapper chipped. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/505 Price: £15

DAVIS, Oswald H. George Gissing: a Study in Literary Leanings. Introduction by Professor Pierre Coustillas. Dorking: Kohler and Coombes, 1974. Maroon cloth. Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/506 Price: £4

DELANY, Paul. George Gissing a Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2008. Cloth in dust wrapper. Fine/Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/507 Price: £10

DeVINE, Christine. Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells. Ashgate, 2005. Cloth in Dust wrapper. Fine/Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/508 Price: £25

DONNELLY, Mabel Collins. George Gissing: Grave Comedian. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper at little chipped and worn. Very Good/Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/509 Price: £10

DUNNE, Brian Boru. With Gissing in Italy: the Memoirs of Brian Boru Dunne. Edited by Paul F. Matthiesen, Arthur C. Young and Pierre Coustillas. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1999. Cloth in dust wrapper. Mint.
Catalogue number Gissing5/510 Price: £10

GISSING, Ellen. "Some Personal Recollections of George Gissing" Reproduced from Blackwood's Magazine, CCXXV, May 1929. Cloth, gilt. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/511 Price: £10

GOODE, John. George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction. Vision, 1978. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded on spine. Very Good+/ Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/512 Price: £9

GRYLLS, David. The Paradox of Gissing. Allen & Unwin, 1986. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded on spine. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/513 Price: £20

HALPERIN, John. Gissing a Life in Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/514 Price: £20

HALPERIN, John. Gissing a Life in Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Cloth in dust wrapper. Library stamps inside. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/515 Price: £12

HALPERIN, John. Gissing a Life in Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Paperbac. Covers a little faded. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/516 Price: £8

HODSON, Patricia. George Gissing at Lindow Grove School, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Wilmslow, Cheshire: Wilmslow Historical Society, 1993. Pamphlet. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/517 Price: £2

JAMES, Simon J. Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing. Anthem Press, 2003. Laminated boards. Signed by author. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/518 Price: £30

JAMES, Simon J. Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing. Anthem Press, 2003. Paperback. Signed by author. Mint.
Catalogue number Gissing5/519 Price: £10

KEATING, P. J. George Gissing: New Grub Street. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1968. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded on spine and edges. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/520 Price: £10

KEATING, P. J. George Gissing: New Grub Street. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1968. Paperback. Inscription on inside of front cover. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/521 Price: £5

KOIKE, Shigeru, Giichi Kamo, C. C. Kohler and Pierre Coustillas. Gissing East and West: Four Aspects. Enitharmon Press, 1970. One of edition of 300 numbered copies, this being an author's copy. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded on spine, chipped and torn. Near Fine/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/522 Price: £15

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Methuen & Co Ltd, 1965. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/523 Price: £25

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Methuen & Co Ltd, 1965. Cloth in dust wrapper. Neat inscription on ffep, dust wrapper slightly discoloured. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/524 Price: £15

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Methuen & Co Ltd, 1965. Cloth. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/525 Price: £9

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1980. Cloth. Stamp on ffep. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/526 Price: £9

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1980. Paperback. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/527 Price: £5

Merope. Anno V-N. 10-Settembre 1993. George Gissing Numero Speciale. Card Covers. Near fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/528 Price: £20

MICHAUX, J. P. (Edited by) George Gissing: Critical Essays. Vision; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded. Near Fine/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/529 Price: £10

MICHAUX, J. P. (Edited by) George Gissing: Critical Essays. Vision; Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble, 1981. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded and with wrap round label saying "cloth edition at paperback price". Near Fine/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/530 Price: £10

NEALE, Gwyn. All the Days Were Glorious: George Gissing in North Wales. Llanrwst, Gwynedd: Carreg Gwalch, 1994. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/531 Price: £5

PLOMER, William. Remarks when opening the George Gissing Exhibition at the National Book League, London, 23 July 1971. Privately printed for The Enitharmon Press, 1971. One of edition hand set in 16 point Pegasus type, printed on Portals all-rag laid paper and limited to 195 copies. Signed by author. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/532 Price: £15

POOLE, Adrian. Gissing in Context. Macmillan, 1975. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/533 Price: £7

POSTMUS, Bouwe. (Edited by) A Garland for Gissing. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2001. Paperback. Mint.
Catalogue number Gissing5/534 Price: £40

QUARITCH, Bernard.] George Gissing, 1857-1903: Books, Manuscripts and Letters. A Chronological Catalogue of the Pforzheimer Collection. Bernard Quaritch, 1992. Card covers. Slight fading to front cover. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/535 Price: £12

ROBERTS, Morley. The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Record Dictated by J. H. Second Edition. Eveleigh Nash, 1912. Original red cloth. Bookplate on fep, slight residue of label on rear end paper, slight foxing. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/536 Price: £15

ROBERTS, Morley. The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Record Dictated by J. H. Hodder & Stoughton; New York: George H. Doran Company, 1912. Original dark red cloth. Spine worn and slightly torn, front hinge cracking, name on ffep. Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/537 Price: £12

ROBERTS, Morley. The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Record Dictated by J. H. New and revised edition. Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd., 1923. Original red cloth. Bookplate on fep, inscription on ffep. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/538 Price: £12

ROBERTS, Morley. The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Portrait of George Gissing. Edited, with an Introduction, by Morchard Bishop. The Richards Press, 1958. Red cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/539 Price: £7

ROTTER, A. Frank Swinnerton und George Gissing: eine Kritische Studie. Brunn: Prag: Leipzig: Wien: Verlag Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1930. Wrappers. A little worn and torn. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/540 Price: £20

RYLE, Martin and Jenny Bourne Taylor. George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed. Ashgate, 2005. Cloth in dust wrapper. Fine/Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/541 Price: £36

SLOAN, John. George Gissing the Cultural Challenge. The Macmillan Press, 1989. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/542 Price: £30

SPIERS, John and Pierre Coustillas. The Rediscovery of George Gissing: a Reader's Guide. National Book League, 1971. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/543 Price: £5

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1912. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt. Slightly foxed. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/544 Price: £40

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1912. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt. Personal stamp and inscription on ffep, slightly foxed. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/545 Price: £20

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1912. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt. Neat inscription and mark made by removal of small label on ffep. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/546 Price: £20

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1912. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt. Spine and boards faded, small book plate (of Martin Secker) on fep, slightly foxed. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/547 Price: £20

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper chipped and darkened on spine. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/548 Price: £15

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1924. Original green cloth. Slightly foxed. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/549 Price: £10

TINDALL, Gillian. The Born Exile: George Gissing. Temple Smith, 1974. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/550 Price: £10

TINDALL, Gillian. The Born Exile: George Gissing. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/551 Price: £7

WARD, A. C. Gissing. (Writers and Their Work) Longmans, Green & Co. for The British Council and the National Book League, 1959. Wrappers. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/552 Price: £5

WEBER, Anton. George Gissing und die Soziale Frage. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Card covers. Covers faded on spine and edges. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/553 Price: £15

WEST, W. J. George Gissing in Exeter. Exeter: Exeter Rare Books, 1979. Limited edition of 500 copies. Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/554 Price: £3

WOLFF, Joseph J. (Compiled and edited by) George Gissing: an Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him. De Kalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 1974. Cloth in dust wrapper. Fine/Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/555 Price: £10

YATES, May. George Gissing: an Appreciation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1922. Original cloth, gilt. Author's own copy, inscribed to herself from herself. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/556 Price: £15

YATES, May. George Gissing: an Appreciation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1922. Original cloth, gilt. Inscription on ffep. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/557 Price: £10

YATES, May. George Gissing: an Appreciation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1922. Original cloth, gilt. Slight damp stain to front board. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/558 Price: £5


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BANKS, W. S. Walks in Yorkshire: Wakefield and its Neighbourhood; with map, and thirty-five woodcuts. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871. Original green decorated cloth, gilt. Prize label on fep. Corners bumped. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/559 Price: £45

BJORKMAN, Edwin. Voices of Tomorrow: Critical Studies of the New Spirit in Literature. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. (Includes short chapter on Gissing) Cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, a little rubbed. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/560 Price: £10

Book and Magazine Collector. No. 161, August 1997. (Includes "George Gissing" by B. B. Coleman.) Wrappers. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/561 Price: £1

The Bookman. Vol. XXX No. 178, July, 1906. Includes review of The House of Cobwebs. Staples rusting, covers slightly torn. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/562 Price: £15

The Bookman. Vol. XLVII No. 280, January, 1915. Includes two articles on Gissing, with illustrations. Front cover detached. Good+
Catalogue number Gissing5/563 Price: £20

BOWERS, Fredson. Studies in Bibliography, Volume Thirty-Six. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1983. (Includes "An Unknown Gissing Story from the Chicago Daily News" by Robert L. Selig) Cloth. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/564 Price: £12

BOWLBY, Rachel. Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola. Methuen, 1985. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/565 Price: £20

CLODD, Edward. Memories. Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1916. (Long chapter on Gissing.) Original green cloth, gilt. Spine and front board faded, shading to endpapers. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/566 Price: £10

The Colophon: A Quarterly for Collectors and Lovers of Books, Part 18, 1934. (Includes " How and Why I Collect George Gissing" by George Matthew Adams) Decorated paper covered boards. Spine browned. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/567 Price: £25

COUSTILLAS, Pierre, Jean-Pierre Petit et Jean Raymond. Le roman anglais au XIX siecle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1978. (Includes chapter in French on Born in Exile, by Pierre Coustillas.) Paperback. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/568 Price: £10

COUSTILLAS, Pierre, Jean-Pierre Petit et Jean Raymond. Le roman anglais au XIX siecle. Tokyo, n.d. (Includes chapter on Born in Exile, by Pierre Coustillas.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Japanese translation. Inscription. Near Fine/Near Fine. £15
Catalogue number Gissing5/569 Price: £100

Extract from Current Opinion. February, 1913. pp. 143-144. Review of The Private Life of Henry Maitland. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/570 Price: £5

DANIELSON, Henry. Bibliographies of Modern Authors. The Bookman's Journal, 1921. (Includes section on Gissing.) Original cloth, gilt. Author's presentation copy. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/571 Price: £7

ELWIN, Malcolm. Old Gods Falling. Collins, 1939. Cloth in dust wrapper. Edges and spine faded, dust wrapper torn with some loss. Gift inscription on ffep, some foxing. Very Good/Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/572 Price: £5

Etrudes Anglaises. XXXVIII Annee-No. 4, Oct-Dec., 1985. (Includes "Gissing's Benefactor at the Chicago Tribune: an identification from a passage in New Grub Street" by Robert L. Selig.) Card covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/573 Price: £5

FORAN, Max, with Nonie Houlton. Roland Gissing: The Peoples' Painter. Calgary, Alberta: The University of Calgary Press, 1988. Cloth in dust wrapper. Crease on half title page, dust wrapper faded. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/574 Price: £15

FORD, George H. (Edited by) Victorian Fiction: a Second guide to Research. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1978. (Includes section on Gissing by Jacob Korg.) Paperback. Spine faded. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/575 Price: £5

GISSING, A. C. William Holman Hunt: a Biography. With 9 illustrations. Duckworth, 1936. Original green cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper chipped and torn with some loss, slightly foxed, but unusually good copy of the only book by Gissing's son. Very Good/Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/576 Price: £30

GISSING, A. C. William Holman Hunt: a Biography. With 9 illustrations. Duckworth, 1936. Original green cloth, gilt. Boards stained by damp, spine worn with small hole in cloth, internally very clean. Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/577 Price: £20

GISSING, Algernon. Broadway: a Village of Middle England. With illustration by Edward H. New. J. M. Dent & Co., 1904. (Temple Topographies.) Original light green decorated cloth, gilt. Spine worn and dulled. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/578 Price: £15

GISSING, Algernon. The Dreams of Simon Usher. Chatto & Windus, 1911. Original green decorated cloth. Lacks ffep, spine a little worn and dulled, some foxing. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/579 Price: £30

GISSING, Algernon. The Footpath-Way in Gloucestershire. With head & tail pieces by John Garside. J. M. Dent & Sons, 1924. Original green cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. Spine dulled. Very Good/Very Good. £20 £15
Catalogue number Gissing5/580 Price: £15

GISSING, Algernon. Ludlow & Stokesay. With illustration by Edward H. New. J. M. Dent & Co., 1905. (Temple Topographies.) Original light green decorated cloth, gilt. Spine dulled, some darkening of rear board but generally nice and bright. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/581 Price: £12

GISSING, T. W. Materials for a Flora of Wakefield and its Neighbourhood. J. Van Voorst, 1867. Original limp green cloth, gilt. Inscribed on ffep "From Algernon Gissing Wakefield 1890", although this is probably not Algernon's writing. Corners rubbed, spotting on end papers. Scarce item. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/582 Price: £75

GISSING, T. W. Materials for a Flora of Wakefield and its Neighbourhood. J. Van Voorst, 1867. Original limp green cloth, gilt. Ex-library with remains of label on ffep and stamp on reverse of title page. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/583 Price: £50 £

GLYDE, John. Jun. (Collected, Compiled, and Edited by.) The New Suffolk Garland: a Miscellany of Anecdotes, Romantic Ballads, Descriptive Poems and Songs, Historical and Biographical Notices, and Statistical Returns Relating to the County of Suffolk. With an Appendix, Containing the History of the Reform Struggle in Ipswich in 1820; or the Celebrated Election of Lennard and Haldimand. Ipswich: Printed for the Author, 1866. (Includes two poems by T. W. Gissing.) Original cloth, gilt. Bevelled boards worn and rubbed, new spine fitted old spine laid on top, new end papers, foxed. Scarce. Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/584 Price: £25

GOODE, John. Collected Essays. Keele: Keele University Press, 1995. (Includes "Gissing, Morris and English Socialism") Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/585 Price: £5

HALPERIN, John. Jane Austen's Lovers and Other Studies in Fiction from Austen to le Carre. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1988. (Includes chapter entitled "How Gissing Read Dickens") Cloth in dust wrapper. Spine of dust wrapper faded. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/586 Price: £20

HALPERIN, John. Novelists in Their Youth. Chatto & Windus, 1990. (Includes long chapter on Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/587 Price: £5

The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine. Volumes I-V, 1898-1901. Five volumes. (Includes two short stories by Gissing as well as many by his contemporaries.) Original light green decorated cloth, gilt. Spines dulled, a little rubbed, shading on endpapers and bookplates on ffep of each volume. Very nice bright set. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/588 Price: £50

HOLLAND, Coffey. Dorking People. Dorking: Kohler and Coombes, 1984. (Includes short section on Gissing.) Paperback. Slightly faded. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/589 Price: £5

HOWARD, David, LUCAS, John and GOODE, John. Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper price-clipped. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/590 Price: £10

JACKSON, George. Half-Hours in a Library. The Epworth Press, 1933. Cloth. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/591 Price: £10

JACKSON, Holbrook. Bookman's Holiday. Readers Union, 1946. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/592 Price: £5

KEAHEY, John. A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. (Retraces Gissing's footsteps in Italy.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Fine/Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/593 Price: £5

KEATING, P. J. The working classes in Victorian fiction. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. (Includes chapter on Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/594 Price: £10

KEATING, P. J. The working classes in Victorian fiction. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. (Includes chapter on Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Ex-library, with stamp on reverse of title page that has marked contents page but no other stamps or labels. Dust wrapper chipped and worn. Very Good/Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/595 Price: £5

KRISHNAMURTI, G. The Eighteen-Nineties: a Literary Exhibition. National Book League, 1973. (Exhibits include several related to Gissing.) Paperback. With supplement. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/596 Price: £4

LASNER, Mark Samuels. The Yellow Book: a Checklist and Index. The Eighteen Nineties Society, 1998. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/597 Price: £25

LEVINE, Richard A. (Edited by.) The Victorian Experience: The Novelists. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1976. (Includes "George Gissing: Humanist in Exile" by Jacob Korg.) Paperback. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/598 Price: £4

The Listener and BBC Television Review. Vol. LXXIII No. 1874, February 25, 1965. Includes review of George Gissing by Jacob Korg. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/599 Price: £8

The Listener. Vol. 78 No. 2007, 14 September, 1967. Includes review of New Grub Street. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/600 Price: £8

LUCAS, John. Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Methuen, 1971. Cloth in dust wrapper. Boards faded round edges, dust wrapper chipped, abrasion on ffep. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/601 Price: £5

MILLER, Jane. Seductions: Studies in Reading and Culture. Virago, 1990. (Includes material on Gissing's friendship with Clara Collet.) Paperback. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/602 Price: £5

MINER, Earl. (Compiled and Edited, with an Introduction, by.) English Criticism in Japan: Essays by Younger Japanese Scholars on English and American Literature. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1972. (Includes "The Education of George Gissing" by Shigeru Koike.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/603 Price: £5

MORE, Paul Elmer. Selected Shelburne Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1935. Cloth. Marks on endpapers and boards. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/604 Price: £10

MORRISON, Arthur. To London Town. New York: Duffield & Company, 1906. Original decorated cloth. Inscription on ffep. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/605 Price: £20

The Nation and Athenaeum. Volume XLIII No. 2, April 14th 1928. Includes review of A Life's Morning. Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/606 Price: £8

New Statesman. Vol. LV No. 1422, 14 June, 1958. Includes review of New Grub Street and The Private Life of Henry Maitland. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/607 Price: £8

O'SULLIVAN, Vincent. Opinions. With an introduction by Alan Anderson. The Unicorn Press, 1959. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper chipped and rubbed. Signature on ffep of Denise le Mallier. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/608 Price: £40

Politics in Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Lille: Universite de Lille III, 1974. Paperback. (Includes "Political Responses to Demos" by Pierre Coustillas) Inscribed by Pierre Coustillas. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/609 Price: £20

ROBERTS, Morley. The Blue Peter: Sea Comedies. Eveleigh Nash, 1906. Second Impression. Original red cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, corners rubbed. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/610 Price: £15

ROBERTS, Morley. Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday. George G Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928. Original maroon cloth, gilt, in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper darkened and chipped on spine with slight loss. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/611 Price: £10

ROBERTS, Morley. Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday. George G Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1928. Original maroon cloth. Small tear at top of spine, inscription on ffep. Nice bright, tight copy. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/612 Price: £5

ROBERTS, Morley. W. H. Hudson: a Portrait. Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Limited, 1924. Original green cloth, gilt. Foxed but a nice bright copy. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/613 Price: £15

SCHWARTZ, Jacob. 1100 Obscure Points: The Bibliographies of 25 English and 21 American Authors. Trowbridge; London: Redwood Press Limited, 1969. Facsimile reprint of limited edition first published 1931. (Includes section on Gissing.) Blue cloth in dust wrapper. Splash marks on dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/614 Price: £5

Selections from The Strand Magazine. Vol. 1, 1891. Exactly reproduced with all the original illustrations. Vernon and Yates, 1966. Card Covers. Crease across top corner of front cover. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/615 Price: £5

STETZ, Margaret D. & LASNER, Mark Samuels. The Yellow Book: a Centenary Exhibition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Houghton Library, 1994. Card Covers. Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/616 Price: £15

STEVENSON, Lionel. Victorian Fiction: a Guide to Research. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. Cloth in dust wrapper. Slightly edge worn, dust wrapper price-clipped, slightly chipped and rubbed. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/617 Price: £5

Studies in the Novel. Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 1976. (Includes "The Gissing Revival, 1961-1974" by John Halperin) Card Covers. Rubbed, front cover partly stuck to contents page. Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/618 Price: £5

SWINNERTON, Frank. Swinnerton: an Autobiography. Hutchinson & Co., 1937. Fourth Impression. Cloth in dust wrapper. Signed by author. Dust wrapper slightly chipped and rubbed. Very Good+/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/619 Price: £10

TINDALL, Gillian. Countries of the Mind: The Meaning of Place to Writers. The Hogarth Press, 1991. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/620 Price: £10

TOD, T. M. A Necrology of Literary Celebrities (1321-1943). Perth: printed by Munro & Scott, Ltd., 1947. (Includes Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Cloth bubbled, dust wrapper slightly torn and grubby. Very Good/Very Good. Together with two autographed letters from the author concerning reviews and criticism of the book.
Catalogue number Gissing5/621 Price: £30

TROUGHTON, Marion. Pens, Profiles and Places: a Literary Tour Round Yorkshire. Otley: Smith Settle, 1989. (Includes short section on Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Near Fine.
Catalogue number Gissing5/622 Price: £10

TROUGHTON, Marion. Pens, Profiles and Places: a Literary Tour Round Yorkshire. Otley: Smith Settle, 1989. (Includes short section on Gissing.) Paperback. Edges rubbed. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/623 Price: £5

WELLS, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866). Two volumes. Victor Gollancz Ltd. and The Cresset Press Ltd., 1934. (Includes section on Gissing.) Original orange cloth. Spines faded but nice clean copies. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/624 Price: £15

WELLS, H. G. Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (Since 1866). Two volumes. Faber and Faber, 1984. (Includes section on Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/625 Price: £10

WELLS, H. G. New Worlds for Old. Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908. Original red cloth, gilt. Spine faded, boards rubbed, name on ffep, foxed. Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/626 Price: £10

WELLS, H. G. The Plattner Story and Others. Methuen, 1902. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine worn and faded, name on ffep, slightly foxed. Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/627 Price: £25

WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader Second Series. The Hogarth Press, 1959. Seventh Impression. Cloth in dust wrapper. Library bookplate on fep, number written on reverse of title page but no library stamps. Dust wrapper price-clipped. Very Good/Very Good.
Catalogue number Gissing5/628 Price: £5


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