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by Gaskell Mrs, Elizabeth Cleghorn

$295 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields 1853. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Slim octavo, pp.160. text printed in two columns. Elegantly bound in period-style half speckled brown calf with red and green labels, gilt decoration to raised bands, marbled sides. Bound without ads or half-title, cheap paper suffers from inevitable browning and spotting; externally fine. Evidently a rather scarce first printing in an attractive recent leather binding. Item #44434

• Binding: Leather

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