Original books by George MacDonald
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A Rough Shaking
FIRST EDITION THUS : Circa 1899. ‘This Edition is for circulation only in India and the Colonies’. Hardback. Distinctive Talwin Morris designed binding for this edition. Frontispiece. In remarkably fresh and clean condition. Minor use only. No owner name or internal markings. Plain end-papers (slightly browned). Tight, bright and clean. NEAR FINE. 384 pages. First published by Blackie & Son, [ Actually released in Nov or Dec., 1890 ]. See Shaberman No. 89; he makes no record of this edition at all.
VERY SCARCE
Publisher: Blackie & Son.
Price: £475
The Elect Lady
FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1888. Hardback. Red cloth; gilt lettered spine with black decoration to cover also with lettered cover and gilt cup motif. Bevelled boards. Untrimmed edges as issued. Bright, tight and clean. Minor wear and dulling to spine. Neat inscription to half-title, dated 1921. No internal markings. VERY GOOD. Scarce first printing. (viii), 337 pages. Not in Shaberman – see his Bibliography No. 84 for only mention of this title in the ‘Indian and Colonial Series’.
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co Ltd.
Price: £450