Lot 117
Nesbit (E.) The Railway Children, third edition, in the rare dust-jacket, [c.1906]
Hammer Price: £1,500
Description
Nesbit (E.) The Railway Children, third edition, frontispiece, illustrated title-page and nineteen other plates by C.E. Brock, 10pp. publisher's advertisements at end, light browning to endpapers, a clean, bright copy otherwise, original pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt and orange, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, slight creasing to head, small splash marks to lower panel, some light rubbing but an excellent example overall, 8vo, Wells Gardener, Darton & Co., 1906.
⁂ Exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket.
Description
Nesbit (E.) The Railway Children, third edition, frontispiece, illustrated title-page and nineteen other plates by C.E. Brock, 10pp. publisher's advertisements at end, light browning to endpapers, a clean, bright copy otherwise, original pictorial cloth, decorated in gilt and orange, slight bumping to spine tips and corners, else fine, dust-jacket, slight toning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, slight creasing to head, small splash marks to lower panel, some light rubbing but an excellent example overall, 8vo, Wells Gardener, Darton & Co., 1906.
⁂ Exceptionally rare in the dust-jacket.
