ANONYMOUS (PSEUDONYM OF MRS. CRAIK - NEE DINAH MARIA MULOCK)
The Unkind Word, and Other Stories
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Several of the stories included in this compilation are supernatural or fantastic in nature. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an early booksellers label pasted to the front pastedown page (E. F. Arnold, Kearny St, San Francisco, CA). Included are the short works: The Unkind Word, A Child's Life, His Young Lordship, Elizabeth and Victoria: From a Woman's Point of View, A Woman's Book, The Age of Gold, Living in Perspective, Sermons, The House of Commons, A Few Words About Sorrow, A Hedge-Side Poet, The Last Great Exhibition, To Novelists, and a Novelist, Bodies and Souls, Blind, Children of Israel, Give Us Air! , In the Ring, A Dreadful Ghost, Meadowside House, In her Teens, Clothes, The History of a Hospital, Death on the Seas, To Parents, Misery-Mongers, An Old Scotch Love-Story, A Garden Party, and, The Tale of Two WalksTold to Sick Children "Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) (20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet.... Another collection, titled The Unkind Word and Other Stories, included a scathing criticism of Benjamin Heath Malkin for overworking his son Thomas, a child prodigy who died at seven. Later on, Craik returned to more fanciful tales and achieved a great success with The Little Lame Prince (1874). In 1881 she published a collection of her earlier poems under the title Poems of Thirty Years, New and Old; some, such as Philip my King addressed to her godson Philip Bourke Marston and Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True achieved a wide popularity." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
S. Howlett-West Books
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USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 159.5 | £UK 133.5 | JP¥ 26027]
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