Conway (Hugh, pseud. Frederick John Fargus) Bound Together. Tales
£275
New York, Henry Holt, 1884.
US ‘Author’s Edition’, Leisure Hour Series No.162. 8vo. Original brown pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
A collection of short tales by Conway, the pen name of Frederick John Fargus (1847–1885), a Bristol auctioneer’s son. His novel Called Back (1883) sold some 350,000 copies, and he died only two years later. The tales first appeared in two volumes from Remington in London in 1884, a dozen of his minor tales collected under this title, some of a supernatural bent; Holt issued this one-volume edition the same year.
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Some ownership markings to prelims, some scattered finger-marking; cloth rubbed and scratched.
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