1894 Ships That Pass In The Night By Beatrice Harraden Antiquarian HB Book Novel

Description: Ships That Pass In The Night By Beatrice Harraden 1894 Antiquarian HB Book Novel Ships That Pass In The Night By Beatrice Harraden Antiquarian Hardback Book 1894. This does not have a Dust Jacket. Published by Lawrence & Bullen, 16 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. The publishers, Lawrence and Bullen were only traded for a short period. They were a partnership between literary scholar Arthur Henry Bullen, born 1857 and American Henry Walton Lawrence, born 1869, from 1891 to about 1904, and so books from these publishers are few and far between. Beatrice Harraden was a British writer, born in 1864 and died in 1936. She became a hugely influential feminist writer and a leader of the suffragette movement and a founding member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. This book was originally published in 1893 and this is a fourteenth edition of the following year. This was her best-selling sentimental romance and tells the story of a doomed love-affair between two patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium. This is a wonderful and historically valuable book. The green cloth bound boards and spine are intact and have beautiful black embossed botanical decorations and lettering on the front board, which are so in keeping with the period, and gold gilt lettering on the spine. The cover has some wear, especially to the edges of the boards and spine, there are small marks, creasing on the spine and some small rips in the cloth on the top and bottom of the spine. The corners are bumped and the spine is at a gentle lean. Please bear in mind that this book is nearly 130 years old. Inside, the pages are lightly tanned and thick in consistency. The pages are in an overall clean state, but do have the occasional light foxing and small marks. Some of the edges of the pages are uneven to the sides, but this is highly likely due to the construction of this book and is all part of its beautiful history. This has left a couple of small uneven rips to the edges, where the pages have been severed from their neighbours, probably by a pen knife. Other than this, there is just a very minimal rip to the bottom of page 65 (and overleaf), which I have shown in the provided photographs. The majority of the pages are uncreased, with just the very occasional light fold to the corners or light crease. On the front pastedown there is a small sticker. This states “MURRAY, MORAY HOUSE, DERBY”. This is more than likely an old Bookseller’s label. There is a pen inscription on the initial title page and a pen blot on the title and adjacent page. There is no further pen or pencil written in this book There are coloured endpapers and pastedowns to both the front and the back, which have slight cracking to the gutter between them. There is cracking to the gutter to a further handful of pages, but there are no loose pages and all 233 pages are present, plus a list of publications at the back. Please study the photos carefully as to the condition of this book, as they do form part of the description. This measures approximately 19.7 cm by 13 cm and 2.9 cm wide. It weighs approximately 463 grams. Thank you so much for looking.

Price: 6.99 GBP

Location: Newark

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