Sold for:
$900
$900
London: Macmillan, 1885 (2 copies) 12mo. , gilt-decorated red cloth boards, gilt edges. First edition. First copy inscribed "Margaret Wilcox from the Author Jan. 27 / 86" to half-title page. Contains 6 illustrations by Arthur B. Frost. Bookplate of previous owner tipped-in front pastedown. Wear to edges and extremes of boards and backstrip; fading and soiling to boards and backstrip; foot of front and rear boards of second copy bumped; fading to titlepage and verso of frontispiece; dampstaining to rear board of first copy; otherwise a sound set.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2007-06-14
