Sale 665: Mid-Winter Miscellany Part II - with Illustrated & Children's Books (#665) 01/24/2019 11:00 AM PST CLOSED!

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Lot 156 of 377:
An Heiress on Condition, short story by George Gissing  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$180
Estimate:
$300 - $500

Title:
An Heiress on Condition

Author:
Gissing, George

Place:
Philadelphia

Publisher:
Privately Printed for the Pennell Club

Date:
1923

Description:

Vignette title-page by Joseph Pennell of the Pennell Club's logo. 4to, original blue quarter cloth, blue-gray paper boards, gilt lettering. First edition, number 21 of 48 numbered copies. 

A short story by Gissing written in 1880, but originally rejected by publishers and then neglected until it was unearthed by a Gissing collector, who arranged for this fine press edition in 1923. There appear to have been a few "unnumbered" copies issued, and that is supported by OCLC.  NCBEL III, 1001; not described in Collie, though noted on page xiii.


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Condition:
Edgewear; very good.


 
Item number:
300111
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