1903 Shafer Robert (1 results)
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Published by Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.Tavistock Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star seller1st US edition (Collie In). lv, [1 (blank)], 373, [1 (blank)]; [4], 436 pp. Bookseller slip laid-in. Frontispiece in volume I. 8vo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8" This was Gissing's first published book, issued by Remington in 1880, not published in the US until this edition by Doubleday Doran, which has Gissing's corrections to Vol I incorpor…ated, obtained from a copy obtained the editor from one Mrs Capra, who had it in her possession [cf. Collie, pp. 27 - 28]. Voluumes with slight cock, bookplate, age-tonging to paper. VG+. Jackets with a modicum of wear, spine panels sunned, Very Good. Original publisher's blue cloth bindings with gilt stamping. Printed orange dust jackets, with b/w photographic image of Gissing to front panel [replicating frontispiece].
