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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Dawn of A To-morrow
Charles Scribner and Sons 1912 No ISBN Cloth Good F.C. Yohn
Clean bright copy. Clean. Haunting prose with 8 beautiful color plates, 154 rough cut pages, burgundy hardboards with gold imprint. Loose spine, pages intact, scattered foxing throughout typical library markings, removed pocket, stamps etc. water spot on front board, spine ends frayed, boards bowed slightly. The Story begins: There are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough. When it is thick and yellow in the streets and stings a man's throat and lungs as he breathes it, an awakening in the early morning is either an unearthly and gruesome, or a mysteriously enclosing, secluding and comfortable thing. If on awakening in a healthy body, and with a clear brain rested by normal sleep and retaining memories of a normally agreeable yesterday, one may lie watching the housemaid building the fire; Ships within two days Illustrator: F.C. Yohn. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction, Historical Inventory No: 000251. Hardcover
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21.56 USD
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