Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

by Samuel Smiles

$8,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: John Murray, 1859. First edition. xii, 343, 5 pp. with four advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth with boards stamped in blind and spine stamped in gilt, tan coated endpapers. Very Good+, recased, sunned spine, moderate rubbing to covers and endpapers. Nineteenth century bookseller deboss to front free endpaper and twenty-first century bookseller ticket to front pastedown. Contents toned with

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