Author: GASKELL, ELIZABETH CLEGHORN (MRS. GASKELL)
Title: Mary Barton (Everyman's Library #598)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. A 1961 reprint of the 1911 issuance. An Everyman's Library presenting the first novel 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. This story is set amidst industrial unrest during the 1840s in Manchester, England. Includes an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. An entry in Everyman's Library Fiction series, EL #598. --- 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 William Stobbs drawing of a young woman to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy though with large 'X' marked in orange to front free endpaper and slight spotting to cloth. Good+, unclipped, unpriced jacket with some rippling to front panel, sunning to spine (which turned it partly blue) and with scuffing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 372, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: Mary Barton (Everyman's Library #598)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. A 1961 reprint of the 1911 issuance. An Everyman's Library presenting the first novel 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. This story is set amidst industrial unrest during the 1840s in Manchester, England. Includes an introduction by Thomas Seccombe. An entry in Everyman's Library Fiction series, EL #598. --- 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 William Stobbs drawing of a young woman to front panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy though with large 'X' marked in orange to front free endpaper and slight spotting to cloth. Good+, unclipped, unpriced jacket with some rippling to front panel, sunning to spine (which turned it partly blue) and with scuffing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 372, 16 (ads) pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88939
- Book number: 88939