SILHOUETTES: SOME CHARACTER STUDIES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH

by Hugh A. MacCartan

$75 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Dublin: Thomas Kiersey, 1918. Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in white. First edition. Collection of a dozen sketches written in a flat-footed version of the leisurely style that connoted gentleman status in the nineteenth century: namely, having plenty of time on your hands because you didn't have to work, and assuming the same of your readers. Several of these stories make pro forma attempts at creating fantastic

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