Adventures Among Books / by Andrew Lang
1905, First Edition. London : Longmans, Green, and Co. Provenance: Bookplate of David Morris. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #405656
Physical description; 3 p. ., ix-xi, 312 p. : front (port.) ; 20 cm. Contents; Adventures among books.--Recollections of Robert Louis Stevenson. --Rab's friend.--Oliver Wendell Holmes.--Mr. Morris's poems.--Mrs. Radcliffe's novels.--A Scottish romanticist of 1830 [T.T. Stoddart.]--The Confessions of Saint Augustine.--Smollett.--Nathaniel Hawthorne.--The paradise of poets.--Paris and Helen.--Enchanted cigarettes.--Stories and story-telling.--The supernatural in fiction.--An old Scottish psychical researcher [G. Sinclair]--The boy. Subjects; English literature. English literature History and criticism. English literature Addresses, essays, lectures.
Price: €195.00