YEAST: A PROBLEM.
by Kingsley, Charles. Introduction by Ernest Rhys
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London / New York: J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton 275 pp, 7" H. Deep red cloth with blind stamped emblem on front board, gilt lettering/decoration on spine, top edge brown. Pictorial endpapers, decorated title page. No date. Originally published in 1848. A novel of the early Victorian era, "Yeast" refers to the social ferment of the times. It highlights the disparity between the rural poor and the landed gentry, and particularly the hardships of the agricultural labourers. Some preliminary and some last pages of the book have very light browning, small label from bookseller on rear pastedown, very light browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, minor edge wear.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30414
- Title
- YEAST: A PROBLEM.
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles. Introduction by Ernest Rhys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent & Sons / E.P. Dutton
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Keywords
- Charles Kingsley, Yeast, 19th Century English Literature, English Novels, Social Novels, Social Conditions 19th Century, Victorian Era, Roman Catholicism, Oxford Movement, Celibacy, Game Laws, Landlords, Sanitation, Disease, English Social System, English
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Historical Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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