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Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts A Book of Stories by Quiller Couchby Quills









Book Description
Quiller-Couch was King Edward VII Professor of English at Cambridge University as well as holding an Oxford fellowship. Throughout his life wrote much verse and fiction as well as editing series of verse anthologies.
Dealer Notes
Rare. First edition, second impression. Boards still a vibrant red, some marks and bumping to corners, sunned spine with title in gilt, upper hinge reveals webbing though hinge is firm, some browning to endpapers and pages with some minor foxing spots, pages' fore-and bottom edge untrimmed, teg, chip to title page, some slight separation at quires T and W though block is holding well.
Author
A T Quiller-Couch
Date
1900 First Edition Second Impression
Binding
Publishers' red cloth and gilt titles
Publisher
Cassell and Company
Condition
Good
Pages
341, 12pp advertisements with uncut pages
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