ALLARDYCE, ALEXANDER - Earlscourt A Novel of Provincial Life (1894)
London & Edinburgh, Blackwood & Sons. 1894, First Edition in Three Volumes. Hard Cover. 3 volumes in original steel-blue moiré cloth, lettered in black; yellow endpapers. Piece of board (3 cm by 1 cm) broken from bottom free corner on rear board of Volume I. Spines dulled and rubbed at foot on all three volumes: W. H. Smith & Son Circulating Library plate on front pastedown of Volume II (trace of removed plates in other two volumes): Volumes I & III have handwritten cautionary advice to borrowers ("If thou art borrowed by a friend" -- absurdly attributed to Shakespeare) on the front free endpaper: owner's name and address on each front pastedown. Text blocks clean and tight through all three volumes. Fair. Wolff [92]. Allardyce's third and final novel, published two years before his death. A heavier than average set which will require some additional postage.
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