Melodrama and high adventure. Thirteen Cornish works. Silas ...

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Melodrama and high adventure. Thirteen Cornish works. Silas K. Hocking. 'Tales of a Tin Mine,' first edition, vg original pictorial cloth with gilt titles, corners slightly turned in, presentation label to pastedown from Pickering Primitive Methodist Sunday School, four plates, pp.127, small amount of spotting to prelims, some instances of finger soiling, eight loosely connected stories (with two being supernatural), generally vg, Horace Marshall & Son, London, 1898; George Manville Fenn. 'Menhardoc: A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines,' original decorative cloth with bright gilt tooling, protected by loose library dj, cracked inner joint, ink owner inscription to front free endpaper, seven plates, pp.352, pp.32 bok catalogue to rear, some finger soiling, a good to very good copy, Blackie & Son, London, 1885; J. C. Tregarthen. 'John Penrose. A Romance of the Land's End,' original cloth with split and sun bleached backstrip, loosely inserted note with the provenance '....the book was the late Creswell-Payne ....who new Tregathan well', a fair to good copy, John Murray, London, 1923; With ten other works including series one and two of Mark Guy Pearse's 'Daniel Quorm', 'The Terror of the Mine' by G. Manville Fenn, 'Deep Down' by R. M. Ballantyne, 'Wheal Darkness' by H. D. Lowry and C. A. Dawson etc. (13) John Stengelhofen (1939-2020). Please see lot 1 for provenance.