Beautiful Jim, Of the Blankshire Regiment. by WINTER (John Strange [i.e., Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard]) - 1890

By John Strange Winter, Author of “Bootles Baby,” “Army Society,” “Garrison Gossip,” “A Siege Baby,” “Mignon’s Husband,” “Bootles Children,” “My Poor Dick,” “A Little Fool,” “Buttons,” “Mrs. Bob,” etc. Fifth edition. London: F.V. White & Co., 31, Southampton Street, Strand, W.C., 1890. Advertisements on verso of Dedication leaf; 8pp. integral advertisements at end; glazed yellow boards printed in red, green, and black on front cover and spine, with ‘Beecham’s Pills’ advertisement in black on back cover; end-papers printed on all visible surfaces with commercial advertisements. Covers a little rubbed, and paper covering of boards chipped slightly at corners; ownership rubber-stamp on half-title and verso of front end-paper, and a different owner’s name written in ink at head of title-page; otherwise internally a fine copy. Scarce. A wire-stitched binding, which probably explains its scarcity. The novel was first published in two volumes in 1888. This title not in Wolff or the extensive Sadleir collection of this author’s works; COPAC records only the British Library, Oxford, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and London Library copies of the first edition, and a third edition at Aberdeen. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated.