New Grub Street

by George Gissing

$4,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: Smith, Elder, 1891. 3 vols, 8vo, vi , 305, 1 , 2, ads ; vi , 316; vi , 335, 1 pp., with half-titles in all volumes. Blue cloth with lettering and designs in black and gold lettering to backstrips, backstrips slightly faded. Green morocco and cloth folding box with gilt lettering to backstrip. § First edition, a remarkably good copy, but with the endpapers in all three volumes browned due to a paper flaw. The Cosmatos set, sold in 2005.

• Binding: Leather

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