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A Rich Man and Other Stories
by John (introduction & editing by William Roughead) Galt
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
T. N. Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 28 pages of titles; contents & illustration lists; & introduction; fold-out frontis. facsimile of a page of Galt's original manuscript of 'A Rich Man' & two further b/w. illustration plates. Written in the form of autobiographical letters the novel tells the tale of a Scot who rises from poor beginning to be Lord Mayor of London. Further stories included are: 'The Tribulations of the Rev. Cowal Kilmun' and 'My Landlady and Her Lodgers'. A glossary of Scots word in included at the rear plus 2-pages of publisher's titles. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 28 + 254 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. pre-title page browned, text block clean. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Gilt titles spine (faded). front end-paper removed. green cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Scottish Literature; Scottish Novels; Scottish Fiction; Scotland; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3937. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3937
- Title
- A Rich Man and Other Stories
- Author
- John (introduction & editing by William Roughead) Galt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. N. Foulis Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Fiction/Literature/Literary/Scottish Literature/Scottish Novels/Scottish Fiction/Scotland Fiction; Scottish Literature; Scottish Novels; Scottish Fiction; Scotland; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Unbranded John (introduction & edit
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- Gilt
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