Self-Help;. With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

by Samuel Smiles

$2,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

London: John Murray, 1859. First edition of this scarce PMM title. Small octavo. xii, 343, 1, blank , 4, publisher’s ads pp.Original purple cloth, covers paneled and ruled in blind, with blind floral central motifs. Original brown coated endpapers. Skilfully rebacked to style in the nineteenth-century with period bookseller’s label on rear pastedown , later bookseller’s sticker on front

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