Item #063359 THE HOUSE OF CASSELL, 1848-1958. Cassell, Simon Nowell-Smith.

THE HOUSE OF CASSELL, 1848-1958.

Pp. x+300(last blank), frontispiece, full page illustrations, appendices, index; med. 8vo; navy cloth, spine letterted in gilt, cloth a trifle marked; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a couple of small chips; free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing; Cassell & Company Ltd, London, 1958. First edition. *Authors connected with the Cassell publishing company include Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Marie Corelli, Ouida, G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Kipling, a.o. From the collection of Australian bibliophile Claude Prance, with his small book label (from Malta) on upper pastedown, and his pencilled signature on upper free endpaper. Item #063359

Price: $60.00

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