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Ralph Redfern. A Novel. By the Author of "The White Rose of Chayleigh," Etc.
by [Miss Rhodes]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Saunders, Otley and Co, 1868., 1868. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Three vols. Small octavo: pp. [1] title, iv Contents, 295, [1] catalogue; [1] title, iv Contents, 292; [1] title, iv Contents, 274. Lacking half-titles. Black half calf with gilt titles and ruling to spine and marbled paper-covered boards; all edges sprinkled red. Bindings lightly scuffed with a little wear and bruising to edge. Vol I split at inner hinge but very firmly holding. Small tea(?)-stains to pp 1-4 Vol I and single leaf corner creased; scattered light foxing mainly to prelims and endpapers; no annotation or inscriptions. From the library of Ballyarnett House, Derry, a late nineteenth century Arts & Crafts country house, with the address in gilt at tail of spine. In Gaye Tuchman's and Nina E. Fortin's analysis of male hegemony in 19th c. literature: Edging Women Out; The High-Culture Novel, Ralph Redfern is described as "a very fair novel of the second rank". Rare, COPAC locates no copies in UK libraries. WORLDCAT locates 3 copies only, two in the US and one in Canada.
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- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6649
- Title
- Ralph Redfern. A Novel. By the Author of "The White Rose of Chayleigh," Etc.
- Author
- [Miss Rhodes]
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Saunders, Otley and Co, 1868.
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Fiction
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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