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

Name: Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts A Book of Stories by Quiller Couchby Quills
Author: A T Quiller-Couch

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

Price: £200.00

Offered by RMJ Books

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