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ALLEN, GRANT: : An ARMY DOCTOR'S Romance: "BREEZY LIBRARY",No 3

LONDON.RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS,[1894].

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UK,12mo card wraps,1st edn [nd but 1894]. VG+.Neat,ink owner name to verso of upper wrap.Minimal shelf-wear,creasing or bumping due to protective,amateur,home- made,plain brown paper dw/dj.Embossed colour pictorial,chromolithographic upper wrap and a plain rear wrap which is slightly grubbed and marked,slightly darkened/aged cloth spine/backstrip.The previous owner made an amateurish brown paper dw/dj to cover the original bds; this has helped to keep the book cleaner than normal - but a grease spot has bled through to the card wraps leaving 2 small circular spots to upper wrap.Top+fore- edges aged/darkened as usual/normal, contents bright,tight and clean; apart from verso of title page and recto of pp1 which both have offset foxing,from the card,colour oleograph ? [by Fred Hines ?] inserted between them.12mo (7.20" tall x approx 4.75"),1-109pp+3pp,[unpaginated], publisher's adverts to rear includes b/w photographic author portrait,b/w lettered title page,colour oleograph and six b/w engravings by Harry Payne. The "Breezy Library" is an attempt to dissociate a shilling from a shocker, and to supply rather a series of "Shilling Soothers",especially in the matter of paper,print,and cover.The book,in fact, will be as much a work of art as the story.Very, very SCARCE due to its emphemeral nature. Romantic novelette set in Matabeleland, South Africa pre-1894.A Victorian tale of derring do and two men's love for the same woman! Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,12mo,pictorial card wraps,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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