Author: GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (MRS. GASKELL)
Title: Cousin Phillis & Other Tales (Everyman's Library #615)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. An undated, likely first Everyman's Library edition (1912) of a collection of five stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (who was often called "Mrs. Gaskell"). A contemporary of Charles Dickens, many of Mrs. Gaskell's writings were published in his "Household Words" magazine. Includes an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. An entry in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. EL no. 615. --- An ex-library copy, in 'flatback' binding style 1, full carmine cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed black spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, dark topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library limited to inked notation on front free endpaper, and slip pasted to rear paste-down. A weakened rear hinge has been repaired on this item, and with somewhat shaken binding & mild discoloration to cloth, else an unmarked copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xiii, 325 pages. Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: Cousin Phillis & Other Tales (Everyman's Library #615)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. An undated, likely first Everyman's Library edition (1912) of a collection of five stories by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (who was often called "Mrs. Gaskell"). A contemporary of Charles Dickens, many of Mrs. Gaskell's writings were published in his "Household Words" magazine. Includes an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. An entry in Everyman's Library Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys. EL no. 615. --- An ex-library copy, in 'flatback' binding style 1, full carmine cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed black spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover, dark topstain and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- Evidence of former ownership by a lending library limited to inked notation on front free endpaper, and slip pasted to rear paste-down. A weakened rear hinge has been repaired on this item, and with somewhat shaken binding & mild discoloration to cloth, else an unmarked copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xiii, 325 pages. Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 14.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88791
- Book number: 88791