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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. 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 pages 30 to 31. Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/359 Price: £30

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+. (Inventory No. 592)
Catalogue number Gissing5/360 Price: £30


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. Good+. (Inventory No. 1217)
Catalogue number Gissing5/362 Price: £8

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. (Inventory No. 20426)
Catalogue number Gissing5/363 Price: £20


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. (Inventory No. 19193)
Catalogue number Gissing5/364 Price: £75


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. (Inventory No. 20427)
Catalogue number Gissing5/365 Price: £35


"Spellbound" [Coustillas C85] and "The Fate of Humphrey Snell" [Coustillas C52]

Notes by Tamotsu Matsunami. Tokyo: The Eihosha Ltd., 1955. Card covers. Name on ffep. Very Good. (Inventory No. 23776)
Catalogue number Gissing5/366 Price: £5


"Humplebee" [Coustillas C95], "A Daughter of the Lodge" [Coustillas C100] and "Christopherson" [Coustillas C102]

A Daughter of the Lodge and other stories. Edited with notes by Norio Akamatsu. Tokyo: The Eihosha Ltd., 1957. Card Covers in dust wrapper. Name on ffep. Very Good+/Very Good. (Inventory No. 23777)
Catalogue number Gissing5/367 Price: £8


Un'ispirazione ed altre novelle

Scelta, Introduzione e Traduzione a cura di Francesco Badolato. Como: Schisano, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. (Inventory No. 1156)
Catalogue number Gissing5/368 Price: £10

Scelta, Introduzione e Traduzione a cura di Francesco Badolato. Como: Schisano, 1970. Second Edition. Paperback. Very Good. (Inventory No. 23687)
Catalogue number Gissing5/369 Price: £10

Firenze: Edipem, 1975. Dark blue leatherette, gilt. Very Good. (Inventory No. 23688)
Catalogue number Gissing5/370 Price: £15


Six Short Stories

Introduzione e note di Francesco Badolato. Treviso: Edizioni Canova, 1973. Card covers. (Text in English, introduction in Italian) Very Good. (Inventory No. 17454)
Catalogue number Gissing5/371 Price: £8


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. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 35539)
Catalogue number Gissing5/372 Price: £20

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. Name on ffep else nice clean copy. Dust wrapper a little rubbed. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 35538)
Catalogue number Gissing5/373 Price: £10


Nouvelles choisies

Presentees par Pierre Coustillas. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1980. Card covers. Spine faded but clean unread copy. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 1186)
Catalogue number Gissing5/374 Price: £10

Presentees par Pierre Coustillas. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1980. Card covers. Spine faded. Inscribed by editor. Very Good. (Inventory No. 23689)
Catalogue number Gissing5/375 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. (Inventory No. 20428)
Catalogue number Gissing5/376 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. (Inventory No. 19194)
Catalogue number Gissing5/377 Price: £25


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. (Inventory No. 20429)
Catalogue number Gissing5/378 Price: £20


The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (A Selection)

Con Introduzione e Note di Francesco Badolato. Societa Editrice Dante Alighieri, 1991. [Coustillas H11] Paperback. Long inscription by editor on half-title page. Very nice clean copy. Very Good. (inventory No. 29699)
Catalogue number Gissing5/379 Price: £7


The Zest of Life

Edited with an introduction and exercises by Francesco Babolato. Barzago: Marna Scuola, 2003. [Coustillas H13] Paperback. Near Fine. (Inventory No. 20430)
Catalogue number Gissing5/380 Price: £10


Works about Gissing

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. (Inventory No. 20412)
Catalogue number Gissing5/381 Price: £20

BADOLATO, Francesco. Il Vittoriano Solitario in Calabria. Milano: Editrice Mondo Letterio, 1968. Card covers. Inscribed by author. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 23693)
Catalogue number Gissing5/382 Price: £8

BRIDGWATER, Patrick. Gissing and Germany. Enitharmon Press, 1981. Cloth in dust wrapper. Limited to 500 copies. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 30592)
Catalogue number Gissing5/383 Price: £5

BROOK, Clifford. George Gissing and Wakefield: A novelist's associations with his home town. With an introductory essay by Pierre Coustillas. Wakefield: Wakefield Historical Publications, 1980. Card covers. Very good+. (Inventory No. 32066)
Catalogue number Gissing5/384 Price: £8

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. (Inventory No. 29477)
Catalogue number Gissing5/385 Price: £6

CHIALANT, Maria Teresa. Eve's Ransom: George Gissing e le Sfide del Romanzo Tardo-Vittoriano. Rome: Aracne, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine. (Inventory No. 29701)
Catalogue number Gissing5/386 Price: £10

COLLIE, Michael. The Alien Art: A Critical Study of George Gissing's Novels. Folkestone: Dawson, 1979. Cloth in dust wrapper. Small inscription and tipex mark on ffep, dust wrapper price clipped. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 17632)
Catalogue number Gissing5/387 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. (Inventory No. 17969)
Catalogue number Gissing5/388 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+. (Inventory No. 1235)
Catalogue number Gissing5/389 Price: £5

COLLIE, Michael. George Gissing: a Biography. Folkestone: Dawson, 1977. Light blue cloth. Boards slightly faded otherwise very good clean copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 35410)
Catalogue number Gissing5/390 Price: £12

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. (Edited by) Collected Articles on George Gissing. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1968. Brown cloth in dust wrapper. Very nice clean copy. Very Good+/Very Good but price clipped. (Inventory No. 31131)
Catalogue number Gissing5/391 Price: £15

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing and Ivan Turgenev. Including Two Letters from Turgenev. Enitharmon Press, 1981. Limited to 250 copies. Wrappers. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 32222)
Catalogue number Gissing5/392 Price: £10

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing at Alderley Edge. Enitharmon Press, 1969. Number 20 of edition of 250 numbered copies. Brown cloth in dust wrapper, but slight fading to spine of dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine. (Inventory No. 30671)
Catalogue number Gissing5/393 Price: £12.50

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. Very Good+/Very Good. (Inventory No. 19196)
Catalogue number Gissing5/394 Price: £8

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. George Gissing: The Definitive Bibliography. High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2005. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 35408)
Catalogue number Gissing5/395 Price: £60

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. Blue cloth in dust wrapper. Edges of boards slightly faded, dust wrapper faded on spine. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 4305)
Catalogue number Gissing5/396 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+. (Inventory No. 19197)
Catalogue number Gissing5/397 Price: £7.50

COUSTILLAS, Pierre and Colin Partridge. (Edited by) Gissing: The Critical Heritage. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. Paperback. New copy some shelfwear, spine faded. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 23694)
Catalogue number Gissing5/398 Price: £7.50

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. Slight fading to spine of dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine. (Inventory No. 1397)
Catalogue number Gissing5/399 Price: £10

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. Personal bookplate on fep, tape marks on dust wrapper, library stamps on reverse of title-page otherwise no obvious signs of library ownership. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 17455)
Catalogue number Gissing5/400 Price: £8

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part I: 1857-1888. New Edition. Routledge, 2016. New. (Inventory No. 33394)
Catalogue number Gissing5/401 Price: £100

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part II: 1888-1897. New Edition. Routledge, 2016. New. (Inventory No. 33395)
Catalogue number Gissing5/402 Price: £100

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. The Heroic Life of George Gissing, Part III: 1897-1903. New Edition. Routledge, 2016. New. (Inventory No. 33396)
Catalogue number Gissing5/403 Price: £100

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. Homage to a Great Man of Letters: Remembering George Gissing, 1857-1903. A centenary gathering in the Basque country on 28 December 2003. A memorial address by Pierre Coustillas, with a preface by John Spiers. Inscribed and signed by the above. Privately published, Sussex, 2004. Near Fine. (Inventory No. 30226)
Catalogue number Gissing5/404 Price: £15

DAVIS, Oswald H. George Gissing: a Study in Literary Leanings. Privately printed, 1965. Green cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 35751)
Catalogue number Gissing5/405 Price: £15

DAVIS, Oswald H. George Gissing: a Study in Literary Leanings. Introduction by Professor Pierre Coustillas. Dorking: Kohler and Coombes, 1974. Maroon cloth. Near Fine. (Inventory No. 22295)
Catalogue number Gissing5/406 Price: £5

DONNELLY, Mabel Collins. George Gissing: Grave Comedian. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1954. Cloth in dust wrapper. Boards slightly scratched, slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Very good clean copy. Dust wrapper creased and rubbed. Very Good/Good+. (Inventory No. 19611)
Catalogue number Gissing5/407 Price: £12

DONNELLY, Mabel Collins. George Gissing: Grave Comedian. New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1973. Cloth. Nice clean copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 23695)
Catalogue number Gissing5/408 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/Mint. (Inventory No. 35417)
Catalogue number Gissing5/409 Price: £8.50

FREEMAN, Arthur. George Gissing (1857-1903) An Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts and Letters from the Pforzheimer Collection in the Lille Library. Bloomington, Indiana: Lille Library, 1994. Card covers. Very Good. (Inventory No. 29999)
Catalogue number Gissing5/410 Price: £20

The Gissing Newsletter/The Gissing Journal. Volumes 1-40, 1965 - 2004. Complete run of the first 40 volumes. With supplements and indexes. Some early issues creased but mostly Very Good+.
Catalogue number Gissing5/411 Price: £250

GOODE, John. George Gissing: Ideology and Fiction. Vision, 1978. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper faded on spine. Very Good+/ Very Good. (Inventory No. 17446)
Catalogue number Gissing5/412 Price: £6

GORDAN, John D. George Gissing 1857-1903 An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. New York: New York Public Library, 1954. Card covers. Covers chipped and shaded, small slit at top of spine, name stamped inside front cover. Very Good. (Inventory No. 35541)
Catalogue number Gissing5/413 Price: £10

GORDAN, John D. George Gissing 1857-1903 An Exhibition from the Berg Collection. New York: New York Public Library, 1954. Lacks card covers. Good. (Inventory No. 30241)
Catalogue number Gissing5/414 Price: £5

GRYLLS, David. The Paradox of Gissing. Allen & Unwin, 1986. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly faded on spine. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 31128)
Catalogue number Gissing5/415 Price: £20

HALPERIN, John. Gissing a Life in Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Cloth in dust wrapper. New copy, slight shelfwear. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 20417)
Catalogue number Gissing5/416 Price: £15

HALPERIN, John. Gissing a Life in Books. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. Cloth in dust wrapper. College stamp on ffep and title-page but clean and sound. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 15469)
Catalogue number Gissing5/417 Price: £8

HAYDOCK, James. Portaits in Charcoal: George Gissings Women. AuthorHouse, 2004. Cloth in dust wrapper. Near Fine/Near Fine. (Inventory No, 29497)
Catalogue number Gissing5/418 Price: £15

HODSON, Patrica. George Gissing at Lindow Grove School, Alderley Edge, Cheshire. Wilmslow Historical Society, 1993. Wrappers. Very Good+ (Inventory No. 32872)
Catalogue number Gissing5/419 Price: £4

JAMES, Simon J. Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing. Anthem Press, 2003. Laminated boards. Signed by author. Near Fine. (Inventory No. 20418)
Catalogue number Gissing5/420 Price: £30

JAMES, Simon J. Unsettled Accounts: Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing. Anthem Press, 2003. Paperback. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 35826)
Catalogue number Gissing5/421 Price: £12

KEATING, P. J. George Gissing: New Grub Street. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1968. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 29473)
Catalogue number Gissing5/422 Price: £8

KEATING, P. J. George Gissing: New Grub Street. Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1968. Paperback. Covers slightly faded, small splash mark on front cover. Very Good. (Inventory No. 33502)
Catalogue number Gissing5/423 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. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly faded on spine but lovely clean copy. Near Fine/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 25675)
Catalogue number Gissing5/424 Price: £7.50

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Methuen & Co Ltd, 1965. Cloth in dust wrapper. Unobtrusive name on ffep, dust wrapper browning with age, very good clean copy. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 17450)
Catalogue number Gissing5/425 Price: £15

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Methuen & Co Ltd, 1965. Cloth. Very Good. (Inventory No. 17448)
Catalogue number Gissing5/426 Price: £8

KORG, Jacob. George Gissing: a Critical Biography. Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1980. Cloth. No lettering on boards or spine, stamp inside "Production file copy", very nice clean copy. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 17451)
Catalogue number Gissing5/427 Price: £8

MATSUOKA, Mitsu. The World of Gissing: In the Year of the Centenary. Japan, 2003. Cloth in dust wrapper. Text in Japanese. Inscribed and signed by author. near Fine/Near Fine. (Inventory No. 29508)
Catalogue number Gissing5/428 Price: £10

Merope. Anno V-N. 10-Settembre 1993. George Gissing Numero Speciale. Card Covers. Near fine. (Inventory No. 20421)
Catalogue number Gissing5/429 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. Very Good+/Very Good. (Inventory No. 24221)
Catalogue number Gissing5/430 Price: £4.50

NEACEY, Markus. The Gissing Journal: A History and Index of the First 50 Years (1965-2014) Grayswood, Surrey: Grayswood Press, 2016. Laminated boards. Mint. (Inventory No. 30879)
Catalogue number Gissing5/431 Price: £40

NEACEY, Markus. The Gissing Journal: A History and Index of the First 50 Years (1965-2014) Grayswood, Surrey: Grayswood Press, 2016. Paperback. Mint. (Inventory No. 34398)
Catalogue number Gissing5/432 Price: £20

NEALE, Gwyn. All the Days Were Glorious: George Gissing in North Wales. Llanrwst, Gwynedd: Carreg Gwalch, 1994. Card covers. slightly sunned. Very Good. (Inventory No. 35457)
Catalogue number Gissing5/433 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, this copy being Number 108. Card covers. Near Fine. (Inventory No. 35928)
Catalogue number Gissing5/434 Price: £15

POOLE, Adrian. Gissing in Context. Macmillan, 1975. Cloth in dust wrapper. Some spotting to edges, dust wrapper slightly rubbed. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 34067)
Catalogue number Gissing5/435 Price: £5

POSTMUS, Bouwe. (Edited by) A Garland for Gissing. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2001. Paperback. Fine. (Inventory No. 30768)
Catalogue number Gissing5/436 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. (Inventory No. 24426)
Catalogue number Gissing5/437 Price: £10

Rare Books, First Editions, Autographs...Superb George Gissing Collection... From the Estate of the Late Arthur Pforzheimer. New York: Kende Galleries, Inc., 1949. Card covers a little sunned. Very Good. (Inventory No. 30238)
Catalogue number Gissing5/438 Price: £25

RAWLINSON, Barbara. A Man of Many Parts: Gissing Short Stories, Essays and Other Works. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. Paperback. Spine slightly faded. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 29498)
Catalogue number Gissing5/439 Price: £25

ROBERTS, Morley. The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Record Dictated by J. H. Second Edition. Eveleigh Nash, 1912. Original red cloth. W. H. Smith library label on fep, slight foxing, very good bright copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 1265)
Catalogue number Gissing5/440 Price: £15

ROBERTS, Morley. The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Record Dictated by J. H. Second Edition. Eveleigh Nash, 1912. Original red cloth. Spine faded with slight wear to top and bottom, small bookplate on fep, date written on ffep, very good clean copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 1268)
Catalogue number Gissing5/441 Price: £9

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. Good. (Inventory No. 1272)
Catalogue number Gissing5/442 Price: £20

RYLE, Martin and Jenny Bourne Taylor. George Gissing: Voices of the Unclassed. Ashgate, 2005. Cloth in dust wrapper. Fine/Fine. (Inventory No. 25527)
Catalogue number Gissing5/443 Price: £50

SJOHOLM, Christina. " The Vice of Wedlock ": The Theme of Marriage in George Gissing's Novels. Uppsala, 1994. Card covers in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 24686)
Catalogue number Gissing5/444 Price: £25

SLOAN, John. George Gissing: The Cultural Challenge. Macmillan, 1989. Cloth in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper sunned. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 29673)
Catalogue number Gissing5/445 Price: £30

SPIERS, John and Pierre Coustillas. The Rediscovery of George Gissing: a Reader's Guide. National Book League, 1971. Card covers. New copies but have been stored for 40 years so some shelf wear. Very Good. (Inventory No. 20690)
Catalogue number Gissing5/446 Price: £5

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1912. First Edition. Original cloth, gilt. Uneven fading to rear board, spine dulled, small bookplate (of Martin Secker) on fep, Slightly foxed. Very Good. (Inventory No. 34154)
Catalogue number Gissing5/447 Price: £20

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Original cloth, gilt in dust wrapper. Pages becoming slightly discoloured but boards very nice and bright, dust wrapper chipped and rubbed. Very Good/Good+. (Inventory No. 1279)
Catalogue number Gissing5/448 Price: £7

SWINNERTON, Frank. George Gissing: a Critical study. Martin Secker, 1924. Original green cloth. Some foxing but clean bright copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 23699)
Catalogue number Gissing5/449 Price: £5

TINDALL, Gillian. The Born Exile: George Gissing. Temple Smith, 1974. Cloth in dust wrapper. Name and splash mark on ffep,dust wrapper rubbed round edges else nice bright copy. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 32554)
Catalogue number Gissing5/450 Price: £10

WARD, A. C. Gissing. (Writers and Their Work) Longmans, Green & Co. for The British Council and the National Book League, 1959. Wrappers. Very good clean copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 34304)
Catalogue number Gissing5/451 Price: £3

WEBER, Anton. George Gissing und die Soziale Frage. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Card covers. Covers faded on spine and edges. Very Good. (Inventory No. 19266)
Catalogue number Gissing5/452 Price: £15

WEST, W. J. George Gissing in Exeter. Exeter: Exeter Rare Books, 1979. Limited edition of 500 copies. Card covers. Nice clean copy. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 34606)
Catalogue number Gissing5/453 Price: £4

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. (Inventory No. 1286)
Catalogue number Gissing5/454 Price: £7

YATES, May. George Gissing: an Appreciation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1922. Original cloth, gilt. Inscription on ffep. Very Good. (Inventory No. 20748)
Catalogue number Gissing5/455 Price: £10


Books of Related Interest

BADOLATO, Francesco. La Calabria Vista da tre Illustri Viaggiatori. Barzago, Italy: Marna, 2006. Paperback. Text in Italian. Very good+. (Inventory No. 29492)
Catalogue number Gissing5/456 Price: £10

Book and Magazine Collector. No. 161, August 1997. (Includes "George Gissing" by B. B. Coleman.) Wrappers. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 1292)
Catalogue number Gissing5/457 Price: £2

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+. (Inventory No. 17192)
Catalogue number Gissing5/458 Price: £12

BOWLBY, Rachel. Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola. Methuen, 1985. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 19279)
Catalogue number Gissing5/459 Price: £12

BOWLBY, Rachel. Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola. Methuen, 1985. Paperback. Slight fading to spine. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 29483)
Catalogue number Gissing5/460 Price: £6.50

CLODD, Edward. Memories. Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1916. (Long chapter on Gissing.) Original green cloth, gilt. Boards unevenly faded, spine worn at top, shading to endpapers, some foxing. Good+. (Inventory No. 35509)
Catalogue number Gissing5/461 Price: £8

COUSTILLAS, Pierre. Nouvelles Anglaises de la Belle Epoque. Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille. Paperback. Slightly sunned. Very Good. (Inventory No. 29494)
Catalogue number Gissing5/462 Price: £7.50

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. (Inventory No. 5978)
Catalogue number Gissing5/463 Price: £5

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. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 23707)
Catalogue number Gissing5/464 Price: £10

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. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 1303)
Catalogue number Gissing5/465 Price: £8

FORAN, Max, with Nonie Houlton. Roland Gissing: The Peoples' Painter. Calgary, Alberta: The University of Calgary Press, 1988. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good. (Inventory No. 34529)
Catalogue number Gissing5/466 Price: £20

GISSING, A. C. William Holman Hunt: a Biography. With 9 illustrations. Duckworth, 1936. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine a little dulled, splash mark to boards. slightly foxed, Good copy of the only book by Gissing's son. Very Good. (Inventory No. 29489)
Catalogue number Gissing5/467 Price: £15

GISSING, Algernon. The Dreams of Simon Usher. Chatto & Windus, 1907. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine slightly torn at top. Very Good. (Inventory No. 29676)
Catalogue number Gissing5/468 Price: £20

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. (Inventory No. 17198)
Catalogue number Gissing5/469 Price: £15

ISSING, 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. (Inventory No. 17198)
Catalogue number Gissing5/470 Price:

GISSING, T. W. The Ferns and Fern Allies of Wakefield and Its Neighbourhood. Wakefield: R. Micklethwaite, 1862 Original green cloth, gilt. 26 hand coloured plates. Corners and boards a little rubbed but very good copy of scarce item by George Gissing's father. pp. x, 56. Very Good. (Inventory No. 35545)
Catalogue number Gissing5/471 Price: £175

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. Good solid copy. Good. (Inventory No. 19268)
Catalogue number Gissing5/472 Price: £15

HALPERIN, John. Novelists in Their Youth. Chatto & Windus, 1990. (Includes long chapter on Gissing.) Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good+/Very Good+. (Inventory No. 19264)
Catalogue number Gissing5/473 Price: £5

HOLLAND, Coffey. Dorking People. Dorking: Kohler and Coombes, 1984. (Includes short section on Gissing.) Paperback. Cover faded. Very Good. (Inventory No. 29470)
Catalogue number Gissing5/474 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+ but price clipped. (Inventory No. 19270)
Catalogue number Gissing5/475 Price: £6

JACKSON, George. Half-Hours in a Library. The Epworth Press, 1933. Cloth. Cloth slightly bubbled, slight spotting inside but clean crisp copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 20408)
Catalogue number Gissing5/476 Price: £8

JAMESON, Storm. Morley Roberts: The Last Eminent Victorian. Unicorn Press, 1961. Cloth in dust wrapper. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 35510)
Catalogue number Gissing5/477 Price: £20

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. (Inventory No. 34585)
Catalogue number Gissing5/478 Price: £10

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. (Inventory No. 22294)
Catalogue number Gissing5/479 Price: £8

KRISHNAMURTI, G. The Eighteen-Nineties: a Literary Exhibition. National Book League, 1973. (Exhibits include several related to Gissing.) Paperback. With supplement. Very Good+. (Inventory No. 32926)
Catalogue number Gissing5/480 Price: £4

LANG, Andrew. The Bookman's Character. New York: Alfred M. Slotnick, 1975, No.9 of 15 copies for private circulation. Text appears to be photocopied and tipped in, with titles stamped in red and black. Inscribed to Clifford Brook (Secretary of the Gissing Trust) by Al Slotnick, a fellow Gissing enthusiast on November 22 (Gissing's birthday). Very Good+. (Inventory No. 30233)
Catalogue number Gissing5/481 Price: £25

LUCAS, John. Literature and Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Methuen, 1971. Cloth in dust wrapper. Boards faded round edges, dust wrapper chipped, abrasion from rubbing out on ffep. Very Good/Very Good. (Inventory No. 19273)
Catalogue number Gissing5/482 Price: £5

MILLER, Jane. Seductions: Studies in Reading and Culture. Virago, 1990. (Includes material on Gissing's friendship with Clara Collet.) Paperback. Cover creased else nice clean copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 35544)
Catalogue number Gissing5/483 Price: £7

MORE, Paul Elmer. Selected Shelburne Essays. New York: Oxford University Press, 1935. Cloth. Marks on endpapers and boards. Very Good. (Inventory No. 20409)
Catalogue number Gissing5/484 Price: £6

MORLEY, Christopher. The Haunted Bookshop. Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, 2004 Cloth in dust wrapper. Lovely clean copy. Near Fine/Near Fine. (Inventory No. 29476)
Catalogue number Gissing5/485 Price: £8

Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions. Second Series. Vol.V.-No. VI. December 1, 1863. Includes letter from T. W. Gissing (but ascribed to J. W. Gissing) on the Duties of Masters and Apprentices. Covers a little worn but very good for age. Good. (Inventory No. 30243)
Catalogue number Gissing5/486 Price: £10

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. Covers yellowing and curling up but very good clean copy. Very Good. (Inventory No. 7357)
Catalogue number Gissing5/487 Price: £10

ROBERTS, Morley. The Blue Peter: Sea Comedies. Eveleigh Nash, 1906. Second Impression. Original red cloth, gilt. Spine slightly faded, corners rubbed. Very Good. (Inventory No. 7358)
Catalogue number Gissing5/488 Price: £10

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. (Inventory No. 17178)
Catalogue number Gissing5/489 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 but nice and bright, dust wrapper slightly torn and grubby. Very Good/Good+. Together with two autographed letters from the author concerning reviews and criticism of the book. (Inventory No. 7419)
Catalogue number Gissing5/490 Price: £18


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