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VERY RARE gilded & embossed hardcover book. "Oliver Wyndham - A Tale of the Great Plague" By Annie Webb-Peploe, the Author of "Naomi". This is the Sixth Edition, Completing Thirteenth Thousand, published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1878. 12mo, 16.6 cm x 12 cm x 3.7 cm, Green cloth-covered boards with gilt & black embossed lettering & decoration on front cover & spine, no dust-jacket. 352 pages. Weight: 449 Grams. CONTENTS ARE LIKE NEW!!! However, there are 2 cracks: between pages 112 & 113, and 240 & 241. Cover & spine are scuffed, worn & a little grubby, gilt & decoration fully visible but duller & more worn away on spine. Split in cloth between spine tail & back cover. Spine has ridge down middle, and is bumped & frayed either end. Edges of cover scuffed & bumped. Corners are bumped & frayed with boards exposed. Outer edges tanned, slightly marked & scratched. Ink & pencil annotations on front pastedown. Remnants of pencil annotations on 1st end paper. Small splits in paper between pastedowns & end papers at front & rear of book. Some pages (very few) have tiny edge bumps/nicks, and/or corner folds/creases, and/or smudges/marks mostly in margins, and/or creasing alongside spine, and/or light handling creases. 1.5 cm tear on top edge of p. 123/124. Traces of glue on top part of p. 127. Light age tanning & occasional foxing throughout. VERY RARE ITEM, EXCELLENT CONDITION INSIDE!!! The story of a young London boy named Oliver Wyndham, set in 1665 at the time of the Bubonic Plague epidemic. With illustrated chapter headers & endings. 24 untitled chapters. First few lines of Chapter I: "Just two hundred years ago, Oliver Wyndham sat alone in his small but well-furnished study, in one of the streets of the district of Whitechapel, in London. It was an evening in the month of July, and the heat had been very great all day; and even now, when the red ball of the setting sun had disappeared from the murky horizon, the air was still sultry and oppressive. All day long Oliver had endured the heat, shut up in his close room. Not once had he gone forth to breathe the outer air. And all day long he had listened in gloomy silence, and with sad reflections, to the unceasing noise of waggons, and carts, and coaches, and horsemen, and foot-passengers, as they hurried along the thoroughfare in which his dwelling was situated. The traffic and the rush had greatly subsided; but still the sound of wheels was heard ever and anon, only now it was the rattling sound of empty vehicles, instead of the heavy rumble of loaded ones. The vehicles came up the street instead of down, for they were returning to the town to carry away more goods and more passengers at the dawn of day from the plague-stricken city to the as yet uninfected hamlets in the neighbourhood". IN STOCK in the UK!!! We post the same day, or if that's not possible, the very next working day. Seller's Ref: 343-C. Seller Inventory # ABE-9947497208
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Oliver Wyndham - A Tale of the Great Plague
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London
Publication Date: 1878
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: 5th or later Edition
