ISBN: 9780948189142 - Brief Interlude: The Letters of George Gissing to Edith Sichel (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Café-au-lait wrappers, printed paper label. Edition limited to 170 numbered copies. Edith Sichel was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing in Murray's Magazine in 1888 attracted Gissing's attention (though he didn't take to the title, "Two Philanthropic Novelists: Mr Walter Besant and Mr George Gissing"). The two corresponded frankly between 1889 and 1890; on their meeting he was disturbed by his feelings towards her. Halliwell A122. Coustillas G13a.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cloth-backed patterned boards, printed paper spine-label. Edition limited to 170 numbered copies. of which this is one of 30 specially bound and printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi. Edith Sichel was a writer and "amateur philanthropist" whose critique of George Gissing in Murray's Magazine in 1888 attracted Gissing's attention (though he didn't take to the title, "Two Philanthropic Novelists: Mr Walter Besant and Mr George Gissing"). The two corresponded frankly between 1889 and 1890; on their meeting he was disturbed by his feelings towards her. Halliwell A122a. Coustillas G13b.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 41pp. Printed in a limited numbered edition of 170 copies. Numbers 1 to 30 were printed on paper made by Amatruda of Amalfi. This is copy #16. Original quarter brown cloth with title label tipped to top of spine. Decorated paper covered boards. Untrimmed lower page edges. Single spot on ffep. Dust mark on edge of title label. Faint spots on margin of p16. Otherwise in fine condition. Two b/w portrait images (facing p18 and p26).…