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OUR FRIEND THE CHARLATAN
by Gissing, George
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1901. With Illustrations by Launcelot Speed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1901. Original dark blue cloth decorated in gilt.
First Edition of Gissing's last novel to be published during his lifetime. He had a tough time writing it: he began it as THE COMING MAN, then laid it aside to write AMONG THE PROPHETS (a novel which he destroyed, and which does not survive), and finally returned to it, not settling upon the final title until he was correcting the typescript. This was the third and last of his novels to be published by Chapman and Hall; the others had been two of his earliest, THE UNCLASSED and ISABEL CLARENDON. OUR FRIEND THE CHARLATAN is his only novel that was illustrated as a first edition; C&H commissioned the illustrations without telling Gissing, and he was not happy with them ("pictures have no place in a novel"). This is a very good-plus, perhaps near-fine copy (spine slightly faded, a touch of wear at the extremities). Coustillas A22.1a; Collie A22a; Spiers & Coustillas AA1.
First Edition of Gissing's last novel to be published during his lifetime. He had a tough time writing it: he began it as THE COMING MAN, then laid it aside to write AMONG THE PROPHETS (a novel which he destroyed, and which does not survive), and finally returned to it, not settling upon the final title until he was correcting the typescript. This was the third and last of his novels to be published by Chapman and Hall; the others had been two of his earliest, THE UNCLASSED and ISABEL CLARENDON. OUR FRIEND THE CHARLATAN is his only novel that was illustrated as a first edition; C&H commissioned the illustrations without telling Gissing, and he was not happy with them ("pictures have no place in a novel"). This is a very good-plus, perhaps near-fine copy (spine slightly faded, a touch of wear at the extremities). Coustillas A22.1a; Collie A22a; Spiers & Coustillas AA1.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14874
- Title
- OUR FRIEND THE CHARLATAN
- Author
- Gissing, George
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1901
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century);
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About the Seller
Sumner & Stillman
Biblio member since 2009
Yarmouth, Maine
About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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