John Frederick Conway (24 results)
Published by J.S. Ogilvie and Company
- Softcover
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.RPL Library Store
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET as Issued. [nd] presumed circa 1887. 192 pp. + ads. Text clean and unmarked. Pages tanned. Paper wraps printed in black, chipped and worn, tanned. Backstrip chipped and partly missing.Text block with sewn and stapled binding intact, complete. Hugh Conway (1847-1885), t…he pen name of Frederick John Fargus, was an English novelist.
Language: English
Published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada, 2006
- Softcover
Seller: Post Horizon Booksellers, Nokomis, SK, CanadaPost Horizon Booksellers
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 3rd Edition. viii, 460pp w endnotes and index. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean showing very light handling. Binding square and not creased. Small octavo.
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Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.California Books
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Published by The Arthur Westbrook Company 0, Cleveland
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Seller: Augustine Funnell Books, Fredericton, NB, CanadaAugustine Funnell Books
Contact seller4-star sellerWraps. Condition: Good to Very Good. No date (circa 1925). #186 in Westbrook's The Hart Series. The author died of typhoid fever in 1885, at the too-young age of 38. Curiously, bound into the back of the book are the first 39 pages -- ending in mid-sentence -- of another Conway/Fargas title, "Living or Dead," which Westbrook als…o published in The Hart Series as #167 (was this additional material a mistake?; an attempt to hook readers on another Conway/Fargas title?; a common Westbrook practice?; an Axis of Evil plot?). Rubbing, light smudging, crosscrack, spine scrapes, vertical creases to back cover, some soil/spotting to edges, tanned pages. A fragile item to begin with, this is an ok copy of an elusive edition. Size: Digest. Book.
Published by Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., [ca.1900, perhaps later]., 1900
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Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, CanadaWilliam Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop
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Add to basket[226]pp. Small 8vo. Publisher's decorated cloth, with "Gem Edition" at the base of the spine. Old dampstain to fore-edge of book, with some white staining, otherwise very good.
Published by J W Arrowsmith 1886 (but actually 1901, reprint), 1901
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Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United KingdomTiger books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. original cloth, spine bumped, advertisement leaf, very good. first published as Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual for 1883; 194 pages.
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Seller: moluna, Greven, Germanymoluna
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Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.
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- First Edition
Seller: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, GermanyHerbst-Auktionen
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Add to basketEINE FAMILIENGESCHICHTE Roman, übersetzt von Natalie Rümelin, zwei Bände in Einem. Verlag J. Engelhorn Stuttgart, 1. Auflage 1889, ERSTAUSGABE, 160 & 160 SS. schön gebunden in reich verziertes Hln., Rückendeckel mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, Rundumrotschnitt, gut erhalten.
Language: English
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 216 pages. 7.81x5.06x0.49 inches. This item is printed on demand.
Published by W Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1887
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Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United KingdomSilver Trees Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good book in light grey board covers with a quarter vellum strip carrying bright gilt titles to a slightly darkened spine.Internally very good and free of inscriptions; binding tight; very minor foxing; unread copy as a number of pages not separated from the printing; ix + 144 pp.… A very acceptable copy of a scarce early edition.
More imagesPublished by J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1890
- Hardcover
Seller: Stephen Rench, Shipston on Stour, United KingdomStephen Rench
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Arrowsmith's Bristol Library Vol 1. Undated, circa 1890? Hugh Conway appears to be a pseudonym used by Frederick John Fargus. [iv], 194 pages. Bound in red cloth with a leather spine. The spine is scuffed at the edges. Small ink stamp of the binder to the foot of the front pastedown - Birdsall &…Son Northampton. Bookplate to the front pastedown of Frank Algernon Hall. Stains to the title page. Book.
More imagesPublished by Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith. (Arrowsmith's Bristol Library, vol. 1.) 1886, 1886
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- First Edition
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United KingdomJarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers
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Add to basket(iv), 194pp, 4pp ads. Orig. brown cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered in gilt; sl. rubbed. Not in Glover & Greene. Not in Hubin. Wolff records the 'first edition' published in late 1883 as part of Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual. The first 'book edition' was published in 1884. Copac records only Aberdeen and University of Lond…on having this edition. Sutherland comments: 'This sensational story of murder, amnesia, Siberian exile, political assassination and detection made a tremendous hit. It was translated all over Europe, a dramatized version ran for a year, and the novel sold over 350,000 copies in four years.' Hugh Conway was the pen name of Frederick John Fargus, 1847-1885, a novelist who also worked at times as an accountant and an auctioneer; he died of typhoid fever in Monte Carlo.
More imagesPublished by J.W Arrowsmith - Simpkin, Marshall & Co,, Bristol & London,, 1886
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Seller: Librairie Christian Chaboud, Bruxelles, BelgiumLibrairie Christian Chaboud
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Add to basketin-12, hardback. Original green publisher's cover / pleine lustrine verte éditeur, titre et filets noir et or, toutes tranches dorées, XIII, 302 pages. Real and very fine portrait of author ( pasted paper) with facsimile inscription. 6 full pages illustrations in B/W. Gilt head. Very good sample.
Published by Engelhorn Stgt, 1889
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Seller: Heilbronner Antiquariat - Michael Wahl, Heilbronn, GermanyHeilbronner Antiquariat - Michael Wahl
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Add to basketKl.-8°. 160 S; 160 S. Grüner OHlwd. mit Leinenecken, reicher Goldprägung und Rundumrotschnitt. Gutes Exemplar. *** 40 Jahre - Heilbronner Antiquariat - Michael Wahl - 1983-2023 ***.
More imagesPublished by Remington. 1886, 1886
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United KingdomJarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers
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Add to basketHalf title. Orig. red cloth, blocked & lettered in black; spine sl. darkened. A nice copy. Ownership inscription of Emily Wilkinson 1886 on half title. Not in Wolff. First published in three volumes in the same year; this first one-volume edition not in BL or recorded on Copac.
More imagesPublished by J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1884
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-194 [195-196: blank] [note: last leaf (O2) is a blank], nineteenth-century three-quarter green leather and marbled boards. First book edition. Published earlier as ARROWSMITH'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL FOR 1883. Conway's first full-length fiction, a short novel which brought him worldwide fame and establish…ed the formula and format of the Victorian shilling shocker. ". this sensational story of murder, amnesia, Siberian exile, political assassination and detection made a tremendous hit. It was translated all over Europe, a dramatized version ran for a year, and the novel sold over 350,000 copies in four years." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 222. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 58 (Christmas Annual). Hubin (1994), p. 184. Sadleir 608 ("83rd thousand"). Wolff 1423a (rebound). Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 VIII, p. 217. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). Gift inscription dated 11 June 1884 at upper edge of title page. This copy is missing leaf A2 (an advertising leaf between the title/contents leaf and B1, the first leaf of text) and leaf O2 (the final blank), and has been bound without the original stiff white wrappers. A very good copy. The true first printing of this book (with title page dated 1884) is scarce. (#130798).
More imagesPublished by Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1884
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Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA]
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Later Edition. Early American edition of this thriller, a bestseller after its first appearance in Arrowsmith's Miscellany in late 1883, and cited by Emily Dickinson as a good read. Though dated 1884 on the title page, the books listed in our example's endsheet would date it to 1885, thoug…h of course they could be 'upcoming' titles - Holt first editions of the period are difficult to identify. One of the publisher's Leisure Hours Series, "works whose character is light and entertaining, though not trivial.not.unworthy of a place on the library shelves." Small hardcover, as pictured. Book shows some wear & rubbing, corners bumped, paper lightly tanned. Text clean; [4], 254 pages plus a handy leaf at the beginning for librarians to clip out & paste to card catalogs; endsheets listing other publisher's titles. Size: Duodecimo.
Published by J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1884
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-194 [note: lacks original paper wrappers]. First book edition, first printing (title page dated 1884). Published earlier as ARROWSMITH'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL FOR 1883. Conway's first full-length fiction, a novel which brought him worldwide fame and established the formula and format of the Victorian shi…lling shocker. ". this sensational story of murder, amnesia, Siberian exile, political assassination and detection made a tremendous hit. It was translated all over Europe, a dramatized version ran for a year, and the novel sold over 350,000 copies in four years." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 222. "Sensational novel of mystery and crime with an element of fantasy ." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 58. Hubin (1994), p. 184. Sadleir 608. Wolff 1423a. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978) or Reginald (1979; 1992). [Bound with] Conway, Hugh. AT WHAT COST AND OTHER STORIES . London: John and Robert Maxwell, n.d. [1885]. Small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-173 [174: printer's imprint] [note: lacks original paper wrappers and advertising leaf (pages 175-176)]. First edition. Collects three stories, "At What Cost," "The Story of a Sculptor," and "Capital Wine," none of which appear to be fantastic. The first two are romantic melodramas, the third a whimsical tale about an executor who struggles to preserve a magnificent wine cellar from the depredations of a tee-totaling relative. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 58. Hubin (1994), p. 184. Sadleir 606. Wolff 1421. [Bound with] Conway, Hugh. DARK DAYS . Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual 1884. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 11 Quay Street. London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1884. Small octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-178 [note: lacks original paper wrappers, the preliminary leaf of ads, and the advertising leaves at rear (pages 179-192)]. First edition, preceding the book edition. Criminous sensation novel. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 58. Not in Hubin (1994). Sadleir 611. Wolff 1424. Three books bound in one volume, three-quarter red leather and marbled boards, spine richly tooled in gold, five raised bands, leather title piece, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Binding worn at spine ends and corners, hairline crack along outer front joint, but hinge still holding tight, a very good copy. AT WHAT COST is uncommon, as are the first printings of CALLED BACK and DARK DAYS. (#131009).
Published by J. S. Ogilvie & Company, New York, 1890
- Softcover
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-171 [172: blank] [3] 4-173 [174: blank] [175-182: ads] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], flyleaves at front and rear, original brown cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, pale yellow coated endpapers. First enlarged (or combined) edition. The first half of…this text (with seven stories) was published earlier as CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE AND OTHER STORIES (a twenty-cent paperback in the "The People's Library" series in 1885). Whether there was an earlier separate publication for the second half is unknown. No listings in OCLC or The American Catalogue correspond to a title with these five stories. They may have been printed expressly for this cloth edition -- a rare book with just two holdings in OCLC libraries, and no mention in The American Catalogue. Conway was a best-selling author in the mid-1880s and his work was extensively pirated in America with the same material being sliced up again and again in different combinations by different publishers. Of the twelve stories here, at least two have supernatural themes: "Our Last Walk" (a ghost story) and "The Daughter of the Stars" (an occult romance). Some of the others are crime and mystery stories. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978), Day, Supplemental Checklist of Fantastic Literature, or Reginald (1979; 1992). Square of paper glued by previous owner to part of front paste-down (to cover a signature?). Bottom corners bumped, top corners rubbed, cloth at top of spine a little pulled, still a bright very good copy. (#128540).
More imagesPublished by J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1883
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Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, CanadaAttic Books (ABAC, ILAB)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual for 1883. [10], 88, [12] p. 25 cm. Half leather with marbled paper boards. Advertising at front and rear. Text in two columns. Both boards detached and spine deteriorated, worn edges and rubbed boards. Tear in p. 87. Remains of clipping attached to front endpaper. News ar…ticle and inscription from 1887 on front pages. Another article pasted to top of first page of text is about "Works By Local Authors," including Conway. This article is nearly torn in two. Some stains to text. Two letters by the author are at rear of text, in both of which Fargus thanks reviewers for their "kind review," one from 1880 and one from 1883. Clipping tucked in at rear has a poem by the author. This novella brought the author worldwide fame and established the format of the Victorian "shilling shocker." A sensational tale of murder, amnesia, exile, assassination and detection, the book was a great hit, translated all over Europe, became a play, and sold over 350,000 copies in four years.
Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1886
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- First Edition
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB
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Octavo, three volumes: pp. [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-250; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-248; [i-v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-207 [208: printer's imprint] + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "March, 1886" on page [1], all three half title leaves present, original salmon cloth, front panels ruled in black, rear panels ruled in blind, spin…e panel ruled in black and lettered in gold, black coated endpapers. First edition. Fargus's posthumously published last novel, he died prematurely in 1885 from tuberculosis, aggravated by typhoid. Glover and Greene 86 (recording the one-volume 1886 "new edition"). Sadleir 613. Wolff 1426. NCBEL III 1043. Small book labels of New York University's Fales Collection on the front paste-down of each volume. Spine lean to all three volumes, gold lettering on spine panels faded, gold lettering tarnished, hairline crack along inner rear hinge of volume III, a very good copy with clean binding and tight inner hinges. A very uncommon piece of Victorian mystery fiction. (#168460).
Published by Macmillan and Co. 1886, 1886
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United KingdomJarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers
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Add to basketFIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Half titles, 32pp cata. vol. III (March 1886). Original salmon-pink smooth cloth, borders & rules on front boards & spines, back boards in blind, spines lettered in gilt. A nice bright copy. See Glover & Greene 86 for a new edition of the same year. Sadleir 613; Wolff 1426. Conway's last novel published af…ter his untimely death age just 38; Glover and Greene record the detective character as barrister Philip Norris. Chapter titles include: 'Recognition and Denial', 'Distraction with a Vengeance', 'Loafing on Scientific Principals', 'A Terrible Old Man', 'Through Good and Evil Report', 'The Hand of Fate', 'On the Right Track', 'The Truth at Last', 'A Question of Precedence', 'After Long Years', and many more.
