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The Tale of Mr. Tod
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The Tale of Mr. Tod

by Potter, Beatrix

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New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1912. First American edition. Original tan boards decoratively stamped and lettered in dark brown on front cover within a brown single rule border and decoratively stamped and lettered in brown on spine. Large color pictorial label on front cover within a blind rectangular panel surrounded by a broad brown single rule border. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate XI). 93, [1]. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page and forty-one black and white vignettes in the text. The absolute bare minimum of rubbing to board extremities. A near fine copy in the original (chipped and torn) glassine wrapper. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake… Read More
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A Tale of Two Cities
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A Tale of Two Cities

by Dickens, Charles

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition. Original printed wraps with near-invisible restoration to some spines. A Near Fine, largely unopened copy, with occasional marginal foxing or offsetting from the plates. First printing with p. 213 numbered 113 (and the other points in Smith), but without signature "b" on the list of illustrations. Complete with all sixteen etched plates by "Phiz" and all advertisements called for in Hatton & Cleever (including the scarce Thackeray ad for Cornhill Magazine), plus an additional sixteen pages of ads in parts VII and VIII not mentioned in the bibliography. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise bearing the bookplate of Michael Sharpe. Published in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities is considered one of the greatest of Dickens' works and contains one of the most recognizable openings in the English language: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Originally released in parts, after its completion A Tale of Two Cities became (and still remains) one… Read More
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

by Potter, Beatrix

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New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1911. First American edition. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Color pictorial label (measuring 2 5/8 x 2 1/4 inches; 67 x 57 mm.) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). Minimal rubbing to lower corners and spine extremities. 84, [1], [1, blank]. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. A near fine copy in the original (slightly chipped) glassine wrapper. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An eager… Read More
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The Tale of Pigling Bland
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The Tale of Pigling Bland

by Potter, Beatrix

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New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1913. First American edition. Original light gray boards stamped in brown. Color pictorial label on front cover. Twelvemo (5 3/8 x 4 1/8 in; 138 x 104 mm). 93, [1]. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page and thirty-seven black and white vignettes in the text. Quinby Plate XIIA endpapers as called for. A very fine copy in the original (chipped) glassine wrapper. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An eager student of languages and literature, she grew up loving classic folk and fairy tales...Her talent for drawing and painting was… Read More
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes
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The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

by Potter, Beatrix

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London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1911. First edition. Original dark green boards ruled and lettered in white on front cover and lettered in white spine. Color pictorial label (67 x 57 mm) on front cover within a blind arch-shaped panel outlined in blind. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate X). Measured 137 x 105 mm and collates 84, [1], [1, blank]. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page. Minimal rubbing to lower corners and spine extremities. Neat ink inscription dated "Xmas 1912" on front free end-paper. An excellent copy. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An… Read More
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny

by Potter, Beatrix

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London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1905. First edition. Third printing (March 1905). Twelvemo ( 5 7/16 x 4 1/16 in; 138 x 105 mm). Original gray boards lettered in green with color pictorial label on front cover, ruled and lettered in dark green on front cover and lettered in dark green on spine. Small crack at bottom of lower joint, slight rubbing to extremities. 84, [1], [1, printer's imprint]. Color frontispiece and twenty-six color plates. Black and white vignette on title-page. Quinby Plate II endpapers as called for. A very good copy, internally fine. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her class, she was educated at home by governesses. An eager student of languages and… Read More
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The Tale of Lohengrin (Signed Limited Edition)
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The Tale of Lohengrin (Signed Limited Edition)

by (Pogany, Willy, illustrator) Richard Wagner

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London: Harrap, 1913. First thus. Near Fine. Deluxe limited edition, this copy number 34 of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's vellum stamped in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Measuring 280 x 190mm and profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Boards slightly bowed with minor toning. Internally clean. A Near Fine copy without the scarce publisher's slipcase. Inspired by Wagner's haunting opera, The Tale of Lohengrin follows the titular knight, son of Percival, on his mission to rescue a damsel in distress. Here brought to life with Pogany's stirring visuals, which highlight the romance and darkness inherent to chivalric epics. Near Fine.
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The Tale of Mr. Tod
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The Tale of Mr. Tod

by Potter, Beatrix

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New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1912. First American edition. Original gray boards decoratively stamped and lettered in dark green on front cover within a brown single rule border and decoratively stamped and lettered in brown on spine. Large color pictorial label on front cover within a blind rectangular panel surrounded by a broad brown single rule border. Color pictorial endpapers (Quinby Plate XI). 93, [1]. Color frontispiece and fourteen color plates (included in pagination). Black and white vignette on title-page and forty-one black and white vignettes in the text. A very fine copy in the original (very slightly chipped) glassine wrapper. "Beatrix Potter, writer of some of the most beloved children's books of all time, was a woman of immense talent, indefatigable spirit, and a generous heart...Although she grew up in London, she was deeply influenced by long family holidays in the countryside, first in Scotland and later in the English lake district. As was the custom in families of her… Read More
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Tales of Instruction and Amusement (Family association copy)
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Tales of Instruction and Amusement (Family association copy)

by [Bourne, Jane]

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Coventry: Printed by Merridew & Son and Sold by William Darton, 1826. First edition. Publisher's quarter roan over drab boards with gilt to spine. All edges speckled red. Measuring 135 x 85mm and collating complete: [4], 103, [1, errata]. Some rubbing to spine and loss to crown; front joint cracked but holding. Internally fresh with the most minimal scattered foxing. Unrecorded in OCLC and with no appearances at auction, this scarce children's book is also a family association copy, with a gift inscription on the front pastedown recording its presentation by the author's son to her mother: "Mrs. Cope, from her dutiful and affectionate grandson, Edward Bourne." An effort of love and intellect, Tales of Instruction is marked throughout by the author's role as a mother. Just as she hopes to educate her own children, she aims to ensure that her book "may serve to establish in your minds...the love of those virtues which it illustrates." Favored among all those virtues are curiosity and a pursuit of… Read More
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Tarzan of the Apes
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Tarzan of the Apes

by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1914. First edition. Near Fine. A bright, Nearly Fine copy of this classic work, introducing the world to one of its great heros. First issue binding without the acorn stamped on the spine and with the correct W.F. Hall imprint on the copyright page. Gilt on the covers only very slightly dulled, with a contemporary gift inscription on the first blank and that owner's name stamped a few times in the preliminaries. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case with leather spine label. "Set during the height of British imperialism and during the escalation of the United States' own empire-building" Tarzan of the Apes offers a fantasy that seeks to "re-establish the authority of imperial power" (Berglund). Set in colonial Africa, the novel "tells of an infant -- the son of an aristocratic English couple -- abandoned when his parents die in the jungle. Rescued and reared by apes, he learns to speak their language and imitate their ability to travel through the treetops" (Dover).… Read More
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Tatters the Puppy
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Tatters the Puppy

by Wain, Louis

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London: Valentine & Sons Ltd, 1919. First edition. Publishers stiff card color pictorial wrappers, die-cut in the form of a black and white, big-eyed puppy with a blue bow round its neck. The back cover shows the back of the puppy. Slight wear to board extremities, otherwise Near Fine. Tall octavo (11 5/16 x 6 1/4 inches; 289 x 159 mm.). [16] pages. Seven full-page drawings in black, red and white. A remarkable survival. Louis Wain, 'The man who drew cats' also drew dogs - at one point in his life he had hoped to make a living by drawing dog portraits. Here is a nice example of a Louis Wain puppy -Tatters. Here we can see the adventures of Tatters from hiding in a hamper, biting slippers, pulling the tablecloth down, barking at a cat in a tree, playing with another puppy, rescuing a bunny from a trap, and rescuing a 'dolly' from a pond." Dale, 198.
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The Tempest
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The Tempest

by Shakespeare, William (Mary Grabhorn, illustrator)

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San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1951. First Thus. Limited edition of 160 copies. Quarter linen over patterned boards with gilt and morocco to spine. Measuring 380 x 270mm and beautifully illustrated throughout. An unused proof inserted loosely at front. A Near Fine example, with a hint of shelfwear to boards and evidence of a removed bookseller's ticket to the rear pastedown. Pleasing overall. Established by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, the Grabhorn Press was among the finest U.S. printers from the 1920s-1960s and had a reputation for taking an adventurous approach to printing and illustrating important pieces of literature. The present is the press' first reinterpretation of a Shakespeare work -- notably, among the playwright's final plays -- and initiated a series featuring the visual work of Mary Grabhorn.
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The Tempest
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The Tempest

by [Rackham, Arthur] Shakespeare, William

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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1926. First trade edition. Original black cloth with gilt to spine and front board. Top edge stained yellow. A Near Fine book with a bit of foxing to the fore-edge of the closed text block and to the preliminaries. In a VG+ jacket with amateur tape repairs to the verse of the jacket, some chipping to spine ends and along top of panels, and a bit of staining to the front panel. Twenty mounted color plates (including frontispiece) and twenty-five drawings in black and white. The Tempest is among Gettings' survey of Rackham's Best Book Illustrations. Here, Rackham brings to life the otherworldly kingdom of Sycorax and Caliban, usurped and governed by the displaced duke Prospero and his empathic daughter Miranda. Among Shakespeare's most complex late plays, here vividly illustrated. Latimore and Haskell 61-62. Riall 161. Hudson 171. Gettings 151, 153 and 180.
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[The Art of Papermaking. As explained by W. Heath Robinson]
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[The Art of Papermaking. As explained by W. Heath Robinson]

by Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator)

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London: G. Heath Robinson and J. Birch Ltd, 1922. A complete set of ten 3 3/16 x 3 3/16 inches: 82 x 82 mm. glass printer's slides, each one depicting a humorous image of the art of paper making. Each one printed in black on the inside of two sheets of glass secured together with a thin black tape border. The subjects: 1. "Rag experts selecting the best rag for a special paper" 2. "Carrying the rag to button removing dept" 3. "A busy afternoon in the button removing dept." 4. "The rag soaking tank" 5. "The combination of rag with esparto grass before rolling out" 6. "Rolling out. A new idea for drawing out the fibres to produce a strong sheet" 7. "A new method of accurate cutting, not yet adopted by Thomas & Green Ltd." 8. "Testing a coloured paper for resistance to fading" 9. "The "which is which?" test for the accurate matching of a customer's sample" (signed W. Heath Robinson). 10. An additional plate "The Latest Thing in Paper Making Machines by W. Heath Robinson" (which was not used in the… Read More
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Theatre of Education (in 4 vols.)
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Theatre of Education (in 4 vols.)

by Genlis, [Stephanie] the Countess of

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London: T. Cadell, P. Elmsly, and T. Durham, 1781. First edition in English. Contemporary polished calf with morocco labels and gilt to spines. Joints professionally strengthened on all volumes. A wide-margined copy, with pages measuring 130 x 200mm; it is internally fresh, bright, and unmarked. Bookplate of Jonathan Nevin to front pastedown of volume I; illegible pencil inscription to rear pastedown of volume III; contemporary ownership signature of Charlotte Sophia Home to front endpaper of volume IV. Upper margins of full title pages excised (likely to remove a signature) not affecting any text. Collating [4], 522, [2]; [4], 463, [1, blank]; [4], 432; [4], 408: complete including half and full titles and advertisements to all volumes. According to ESTC, the first edition was not issued with plates or illustrations, though some catalogue entries note a later-inserted frontis to some copies. ESTC further reports 20 copies worldwide, with the caveat that many are "held as mixed sets containing one or… Read More
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Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen. With Drawings by Ben Shahn
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Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen. With Drawings by Ben Shahn

by Owen, Wilfred

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Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. First edition thus. Fine/Very Good +. Copy number 9 (IX) of 35, bound in the publisher's half-leather binding with an extra proof on Japanese vellum bound in and signed by the artist, Ben Shahn. A Fine, unworn copy in a Very Good+ publisher's slipcase, with only trivial cracking at a few of the joints. Fine in Very Good + dust jacket. Wilfred Owen, a British soldier and poet, is best remembered for his verse about World War I. Killed in battle in 1918, most of Owen's poetry was published posthumously. Owen, along with his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, departed from the wartime verse of earlier poets who celebrated the patriotic glories of conflict. Owen and Sassoon, instead, documented the terror, destruction, and horrors of modern warfare. This edition is published by the Gehenna Press, founded by Leonard Baskin in 1942. Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen marks the first collaboration between Baskin and Richard Warren of The Metcalf Printing and Publishing… Read More
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Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works [With] Translations from the German by Thomas Carlyle (in 34 vols)
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Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works [With] Translations from the German by Thomas Carlyle (in 34 vols)

by Carlyle, Thomas

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1874. First Thus. Near Fine. Library Edition. Thirty-four octavo volumes (207 x 133 mm) uniformly bound by Morrell ca. 1930 in three-quarter crushed brown levant morocco over brown cloth ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively gilt lettered and tooled in compartments. Two volumes professionally repaired at top of spines. Engraved frontispieces and plates. The Library edition, originally issued in 30 volumes 1869-71, with three additional volumes (translations from the German) added in 1871 and also a thirty-fourth volume as General Index . A near fine set. "In literature [Carlyle] was the pioneer who explored and made known the work of modern Germany. His literary judgments were penetrating, and (when he had a congenial subject) just; and on men like Voltaire, Burns, and Johnson he gave verdicts that approached finality. At a historian he is in the highest rank. Bating certain unimportant errors of detail, he illumined the past with astonishing insight… Read More
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Three Little Kittens Painting Book
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Three Little Kittens Painting Book

by Wain, Louis (illustrator)

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London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd, 1910. Original color pictorial wrappers. Small quarto (9 1/16 x 7 inches: 230 x 177 mm.). 20 pp (including wrappers). Four full-page illustrations in full color with duplicate brown line drawings opposite, designed to be hand colored by the owner (the second drawing already expertly colored). A very fine example of a fragile rarity. At the end of the last century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" (H.G. Wells). Here, Wain gives children the opportunity to color his cats for themselves. Father Tuck's Little Artists' Series No. 4063.
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
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Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

by Carroll, Lewis [Charles Dodgson]

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London: Macmillan & Co, 1872. First edition. Fine. Finely bound in three-quarter red crushed morocco over cloth boards with the Red Queen and White King stamped in gilt on the boards. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled end-papers and paste-downs. In excellent condition internally, with the first issue misprint "wade" for "wabe" on p. 21. Complete with all 50 engravings by John Tenniel. A faint contemporary gift inscription on the title page, a few spots of soiling or foxing throughout. Carroll's fantastical sequel to the classic Alice Adventures in Wonderland. Published in 1871, the book follows Alice as she enters a strange alternative world by stepping through a magical mirror. She soon encounters the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky", which Martin Gardner called "...the greatest of all nonsense poems in English", and later meets the famed Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a sensation when it was first published, and Through The Looking Glass received favorable reviews as… Read More
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Thyrza. A Tale (in 3 vols.)
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Thyrza. A Tale (in 3 vols.)

by Gissing, George

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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1887. First edition. Very Good. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 185 x 125mm and collating complete with half titles to all volumes and publisher's adverts to rear of final volume: [6], 291, [1]; [6], 316; [6], 298, [2, adverts]. A Very Good copy with minor bumps to extremities; some hinges tender and starting. Rear hinge repaired in volume 1. Minor marginal foxing and staining throughout, not affecting text. "George Gissing intended Thyrza to contain the very spirit of London working-class life. His story tells of Walter Egremont, an Oxford trained idealist who gives lectures on literature to workers, some of them from his father's Lambeth factory. Thyrza Trent, a young hat trimmer, meets and falls in love with him, forsaking Gilbert Grail, an intelligent working man who Egremont has put in charge of his library. In a tale of ambition, betrayal, and disillusionment, Gissing's heroine aspires to purity and self-improvement.… Read More
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