For LACK Of GOLD. Library of Select Novels. No. 364. Price 50 Cents

Gibbon, Charles [1843 - 1890]

Verlag: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1871

Beschreibung

2, 141, [1 (blank)], 2 pp. Text double column. Adverts first & last two pages. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6-1/4" A scarce novel by this British author who, Sadleir tells us, "was the sentimental counterpart of the sensational Farjeon, and in his way as popular. Gibbon was of working class origin, and by dogged self-education raised himself first to clerkship, then to journalism and finally to the writing of successful fiction." [Sadleir, XIX C Fiction, Vol I, p. 139]. Wear & soiling to wrappers, with spine roll to volume. Spine paper worn, with some paper loss & front wrapper nearly detached. A Good copy. Original publisher's printed salmon paper wrappers, sewn. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 1st US edition. Not in Sadleir, nor in Wolff, though OCLC records 6 holding instituions. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 40718

Bibliografische Details

Titel: For LACK Of GOLD. Library of Select Novels. ...

Verlag: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1871

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage