Giless Minority Scenes Red by Oreilly Eleanor (4 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated Strahan edition [1881]. Illustrated by F. A. Fraser. Original brown cloth, elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt; brown endpapers. Corners rubbed, canceled prize plate on front free endpaper, signature on half-title, foxing spots, good. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this vanishingly scarce children's tale surrounding a young boy named Giles who inherits his families substantial estate after their untimely death, written by Eleanor Grace O'Reilly. First edition. Bound in the publisher's blue pictorial cloth. Vanishingly scarce work. Illustrated with seven plates and a frontispiece. Collated, complete. An entertaining children's tale surrounding a young boy named Giles who inherits his family home, the Red House, after his parents pass away. Written by Eleanor Grace O'Reilly, a nineteenth century children's author who often wrote under the name Mrs. Robert O'Reilly. Two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Prize ink inscription awarding the book to Miss Florence Hill in 1884. Bound in the publisher's blue pictorial cloth. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to the joints and extremities. A little bumping to the spine head and tail. Ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with a few light handling marks and the odd spot. Very Good. book.