Verne (Jules) Foundling Mick
£650
(P’tit Bonhomme)
London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, n.d. [c.1900].
‘New and Cheaper Edition’. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
A heart-warming story of a young Irish orphan’s trials and tribulations in the late 19th century.
In stock
A little worn at head of spine, but overall a very good copy.
Frontispiece and plates.
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