NEW GRUB STREET: a novel.
In three volumes. Second edition. Pp. [viii]+306+[2](advertisements)+[viii]+316+[viii]+336(including outer blanks); dark blue/green textured cloth, decorated in black and ruled, the spines lettered in gilt, upper boards lettered in black, spines faded, the boards slightly scuffed, edges lightly rubbed; uncut; faint signs of removal of bookplate or label from upper pastedowns, name in ink near top edge of upper free endpapers, small catalogue slip tipped onto upper pastedown Volume I, hinges tender at a couple of points, occasional faint soiling; Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1891. Second edition [i.e. second impression]. Coustillas A9.2; Collie IXb. *'New Grub Street was the only Gissing novel published in three volumes that went into a second edition or, more accurately, impression in the same format . . . Of this "second edition" 250 copies were printed' [Coustillas, pp. 98-9]. Item #149798
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