From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION THUS. Large 8vo. 9 x 6.5 inches. xi + [i] + 142 + [1] pp. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, with decorative gilt borders on front board and gilt blocks on spine, in matching dud=st wrapper, which has some loss at top edge and head and tail of spine. A little wear to extremities, spotting of edges, and some scattered foxing; otherwise a very good copy. 1916 inscription on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 8 colour tipped in plates, protected by captioned tissue guards. Michael Fairless was the pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber (1869-1901), Yorkshire born Christian writer. Brother Hilarius, first published by John Murray, 1901, a work of religious fiction set in monastic times, was her first published title, followed by her very successful book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902). An attractive copy of the first Duckworth illustrated edition. FICTION CHRISTIAN LIT. FICTION CHRISTIAN 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FICTION. Seller Inventory # 28233
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE GATHERING OF BROTHER HILARIUS.
Publisher: Duckworth and Co. 5 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden., London
Publication Date: 1913
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