Wardon reve (4 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 1" chip at corner of front wrapper. 1/2" and smaller tears to edges of wrappers. 1 1/2" and 1" loss at ends of paper spine. Staples rusting.; Printed paper wrappers. A short novel. "To you whose lines have fallen in pleasant places, on whose paths in life fortune has beamed with gracious smiles, the following narrative will possess little interest. Surrounded as you are with home comforts, troops of friends, and social pleasures, your severest pang, perchance, arising from satiety, you are utterly unable to estimate aright the strenuous struggle for existence maintained by the penniless poor." - the opening sentences. [References: Bagnall W350 - "Containing some views of the social outlook from the proletarian standpoint"; Burns p. 8. - "A new immigrant to Lyttelton in the 1870s and unemployed joins the gold rush to the West Coast".]; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 55, [1] pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Ex-library. General Assembly Library, New Zealand. New Zealand Collection. Gilt library stamps on spine and front board.; 55, [1] pages. Nicely rebound in green cloth boards with red panel on spine. Without original printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 169 x 113mm. A short novel. "To you whose lines have fallen in pleasant places, on whose paths in life fortune has beamed with gracious smiles, the following narrative will possess little interest. Surrounded as you are with home comforts, troops of friends, and social pleasures, your severest pang, perchance, arising from satiety, you are utterly unable to estimate aright the strenuous struggle for existence maintained by the penniless poor." - the opening sentences. [References: Bagnall W350 - "Containing some views of the social outlook from the proletarian standpoint"; Burns p. 8. - "A new immigrant to Lyttelton in the 1870s and unemployed joins the gold rush to the West Coast".]. …

Containing some views of the social outlook from the proletarian standpoint. First edition. 8vo. Very good in the original wrappers, staples rusty. 55pp. Christchurch, Simpson & Williams, A fictional tale of the hard realities of mining life in New Zealand. The protagonist's children die while he is away prospecting; he drowns; and his wife is committed to an asylum due to her grief.…

Containing some views of the social outlook from the proletarian standpoint.  First edition. 8vo. Very good in the original printed green wrapper, staples rusty. 55pp. Christchurch, Simpson & Williams, A fictional tale of the hard realities of mining life in New Zealand. The protagonist's children die while he is away prospecting; he drowns; and his wife is committed to an asylum due to her grief.…