PURELY FOR PLEASURE (LITERARY BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS) BY MARGARET LANE 1967 HC/DJ

Description: PURELY FOR PLEASURE A COLLECTION OF LITERARY-BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS By Margaret Lane 1967 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION HARDBOUND BOOK WITH DUST JACKET Condition: 1st American Edition. Boards have light surface soil with minor shelfwear. Binding is tight and square. Very light staining to reverse of frontise. Heavy freckling to front page edges. Otherwise,Pages are clean and crisp with no tears, chips, marks or creases. DJ has heavy soil to rear panel and moderate soil to front panel. Light edge rubbing and no tears or chips. Price clipped. Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 320 pages. Additional Comments: Please see my photos of this actual book for sale (these are not stock photos). Synopsis of book: This is a collection of novelist Margaret Lane's "personal excursions. in chosen company" The essays which represent a pleasant amalgam of biography and criticism vary from several on the Brontes or Mrs. Gaskell or the reclusive Beatrix Potter via her journals and her widowed husband. There's a piece on Flora Thompson who died in 1947 leaving one minor classic, Lark Rise, on an extravagant eccentric Lord Ferrers; on W.H. Hudson's indigent last years in London rooming houses; and several on Dr. Johnson, his homes, his table where he was capable of gross gourmandise, his women The Boilerplate: All books are shipped in new, cardboard boxes or rigid cardboard envelopes. Shipping charges are for media mail or priority mail for domestic destinations and for international first class or priority mail for foreign destinations. We gladly combine purchases to save you shipping expense. All shipping charges reflect actual cost of shipping. Inv. 632

Price: 15.95 USD

Location: Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania

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