Author: EDGEWORTH, MARIA
Title: Castle Rackrent -and- the Absentee (Everyman's Library #410)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1960. Hardcover. A 1960 reprint of the 1910 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting two works of fiction by Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849). Born in England, the author was taken to Ireland as a young child and lived virtually the rest of her life there. She was praised for portraying ".the Irish as they really were" (per the jacket flap). With an introduction by Brander Matthews. Everyman's Library catalogue no. 410, an entry in their Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling and interlocked 'EL' at tail of spine; orange topstain. In green dust jacket with Hugh Marshall drawing to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy, though with discreet pencilings to front free endpaper. Dust jacket is intact, though with rubbing; otherwise in great shape and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xvii, 346, 4 (ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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