John Halifax Gentleman
A & C Black, 1912.
First edition, secondary binding, in original printed dustwrapper. Pictorial cloth and top edge gilt. Illustrations in colour by Oswald Moser. A very good copy, in a good dustwraper, which is clean, but with chip along spine top and rear panel. Gift inscription to the front endpaper.
A Victorian novel which follows the fortunes of John Halifax, a young orphan determined to make his way in the world. "No doubt the story makes its strongest appeal to a large class of young readers who at the beginning of life are aspiring to that triumph over adverse circumstances in which Miss Mulock's hero succeeded so well." (introduction).
Stock ID: 45122
£25.00
