Man North by Bennett E a (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Copyright 1898; no later dates or printings mentioned. "Printed at the University Press, John Wilson And Son, Cambridge, U.S.A." with publisher's colophon to the title page. Some browning to the endpapers, and some foxing to the front page edges. Hinges lovely, no markings to the pages. The top page edges stained by the publisher, possibly gray. Bennett's first novel. A young man from the north relocates to London in hopes of launching a literary career, finds it no bed of roses. 265 pp. Reduced from $1,450.

E. A. Bennett.A Man from the North. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1898. First edition. Small octavo. 265pp + 12pp ads. Publisher's red cloth over boards, stamped in white to front and spine, with publisher's logo in white to back. Housed in custom cloth clamshell case with gilt titles to spine. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. . Extremities gently bumped and rubbed, lightly soiled, front hinge cracked and hanging by a thread, back hinge cracked and hanging by several dozen threads, additional bookplates of Oliver Brett and H. C. Drayton, pages lightly toned. Slipcase lightly rubbed and soiled. Good. LMM-252.