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DUNNE, MARY CHAVELITA]. Fantasias. By George Egerton. , 1898.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. 7 x 4 5/8". [4]ff., 156pp. Original cloth, some light foxing. Very good copy. Collated and complete. Second edition.
Seller: Zamboni & Huntington, Bangor, ME, U.S.A.
DUNNE, MARY CHAVELITA]. Fantasias. By George Egerton. , 1898.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London and New York: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". [4]ff., 156pp., 12pp. (publisher's list dated "1897"). Original cloth, some rubbing on covers, edges darkened. Collated and complete. A good copy. With the exception of the preliminary leaves and final three leaves of text, this copy is unopened.
Seller: Zamboni & Huntington, Bangor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1898. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt; [4],156,12pp. Light wear to cloth extremities, textblock very slightly toned and brittle, else Very Good, beautifully bright and sound copy. Collection of parable-like short stories by the Irish author, opening with "The Star-Worshipper": "This is the tale of a man who was a star-worshipper, and who was made or marred--which is quite a matter of opinion--by his union with a wife who was inordinately fond of porridge" (p. 3).
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.47 + shipping
Description: (London: John Lane: The Bodley Head 1898). Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gold to the spine and front board. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4". [4]ff., 156pp., 12pp. (publisher's list at the rear "A List of Books in Belles Lettres" dated "1897" from John Lane: The Bodley Head , New York). First Edition. A bookstore ticket to the front paste-down and a former owner's neat name in fountain pen to the front free end-paper. Spine very slightly faded (hardly worth mentioning) and spine tips pushed and softened. Overall a solid VG (or better) copy. George Egerton was a writer of short stories, novels, plays and translations, noted for her psychological probing, innovative narrative techniques, and outspokenness about women's need for freedom, including sexual freedom. Egerton is widely considered to be one of the most important writers in the late nineteenth century New Woman Movement and a key exponent of early modernism in English-language literature. Egerton has been credited with the first mention of Friedrich Nietzsche in English literature (she refers to Nietzsche in her first book "Keynotes" in 1893, three years before the first of Nietzsche's works was translated into English). Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom