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Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life: Daisy Nook Sketches [with] Chronicles of Waverlow; Treadlepin Fold, The New Borough and A Fight For Love; Irkdale; Out of Work, Our Old Nook and The Fratchingtons of Fratchingthorpe [and] Cotters of Mossburn [6 volumes].
by Brierley, Ben
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Manchester & London; Abel Heywood & Son/ Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1881- 1886., 1881. Hard Cover. Six of the Nine Volumes in the set. Octavo, pp. 127,[1]; 280; 268; 326; 306; 283, [1]. Frontispiece by J. Shackleton to each volume excepting Daisy Nook Sketches. Publishers' red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration, featuring floral motifs and roundels of mill shuttles; advertisements to lower boards. Spines lightly sunned with minor wear at tips; Waterlow slightly cocked and Out of Work a little shaken. Ex library copies with printed plates to each front pastedown and ffep; ownership inscription to front pastedown Daisy Nook only. Scattered foxing, heavier to endpapers and edges. A Good set. Stories by Manchester weaver and dialect writer Benjamin Brierley (1825-1896). Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.
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- Seller
- Keel Row Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 8095
- Title
- Tales and Sketches of Lancashire Life: Daisy Nook Sketches [with] Chronicles of Waverlow; Treadlepin Fold, The New Borough and A Fight For Love; Irkdale; Out of Work, Our Old Nook and The Fratchingtons of Fratchingthorpe [and] Cotters of Mossburn [6 volumes].
- Author
- Brierley, Ben
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Manchester & London; Abel Heywood & Son/ Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1881- 1886.
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
Biblio member since 2019
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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