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Hardcover. Zustand: Good - Cash. General shop wear to book; some grease stains to cover, pages, and edges of the text block. Binding is secure. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Thus. First Folio Society edition, first printing. 292pp, with illustrated frontispiece and occasional illustrations in text. Green boards with gilt decorations front and spine, gilt titles on spine. Colour illustrated endpapers. Top edge sprayed brown. Boards very slightly pushed at spine ends, hint of spotting on fore edge, else volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Housed in its slipcase, shelf worn, rubbed on corners, with a little cracking in paper along edges.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. The magazine is shelf rubbed.Internally clean and tightly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 339 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Paul Tokamweka (illustrator). 56 pp., illustrations. 0.0.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Two volumes. Octavo, 190mm. Physical description, xiii, 359; x, 369. Both volumes with half titles. Contents clean and bright. Publisher's brown cloth backed boards, very lightly rubbed. The spines with titles etc; in gilt. Black endpapers. Both volumes with bookplates and gift inscriptions. Overall, overall both volumes are very good. John Critchley Prince ( 1808 - 1860 ) was born in Wigan, Lancashire, the son of a reed - maker for weavers. He received little formal education other than that at a local Baptist Sunday - school where learned to read and write. In his young life he suffered many privations and much tedium as he helped his father as a reed - maker. They were a poor family and John had to travel where was available at Manchester and Hyde. Solace was gained from the few poetry and story books he managed to procure. 1830 saw him travel to France and Germany to find work, he returned home without finding work only to discover his house had been burgled and his wife and familly in the Wigan poor house. In 1827 he began to write poetry and his life prospered - temporarily. His first book of poetry ' Hours With the Muses ', was published in 1841 and went into six editions. He published another five volumes of poetry. He went on to be one , if not the founder member of the Manchester Poets, who met at The Sun Inn, on Long Mlllgate. The other members included , among others, the poets Charles Swain, John Bolton Rogerson, Elijah Ridings, and Robert Rose.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition. Bookplate and name and address sticker on front endpaper. Both hinges repaired. Spine tips are well worn. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed. Ink margin note at bottom of page four. 294 pages. Frontispiece.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 432 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.10 inches. In Stock.