The Man of Seven Offers.

£60 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

In this comic novel, the offers are marriage proposals. An atmospherically distressed copy, evoking a picture of working class literacy, with the early ownership inscription of Nehemiah Sage of Penrhiwceiber in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales: Nehemiah was surely a coal miner for every page is thumbed and soiled. Binding worn and soiled, hinge starting. WorldCat finds only two copies outside the British copyright receipt libraries.

• Year: 1895

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