CAREY, Rosa Nouchette

For Lilias [...] and Aunt Diana

New York: John W. Lovell Company, n.d. (ca. 1900). "Popular Edition" (spine foot). Octavo (19cm.); original bright blue cloth, upper spine embossed in gilt; 399,[1],208,[14](ads)pp.; 8 engraved plates. Spine a touch darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, else About Fine.

Two of the author's numerous domestic novels for young girls bound in one volume as issued, possibly forming part of a set ("Works of Rosa Nouchette Carey" on spine). Includes For Lilias (1885), which describes the class discrepencies between a gentlewoman and a former servant believed to be her birth mother. Elon University only in OCLC as of March, 2015.

Price: $45.00

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