Life's Little Ironies. A Set of Tales with some colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. [Second Edition]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
by HARDY Thomas
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
[Osgood, McIlvaine],, [1894]. 8vo., Second Edition, on laid paper; decorative green cloth gilt, covers tooled in gilt and red to an art-nouveau floral design by Charles Ricketts, gilt back, back very lightly faded else a remarkably bright, clean copy. The binding is identical to that of the first edition published earlier in the same year. Purdy, p.85.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 647
- Title
- Life's Little Ironies. A Set of Tales with some colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters. [Second Edition]. REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
- Author
- HARDY Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Osgood, McIlvaine],
- Date Published
- [1894]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, hardy, thomas hardy, charles ricketts, art nouveau
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