Some minor toning and marking; cloth corners slightly rolled, spine rubbed, some minor marking to upper cover.
Riddell (Mrs J.H. [Charlotte]) Idle Tales
£450
London, Ward & Downey, [1888].
First collected edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth lettered in gilt to spine.
“A general collection containing Riddell’s fine supernatural short story, ‘The last of Squire Enmismore’.” (Shadows in the Attic, p.423).
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