Life’s Little Ironies. A Set of Tales with some colloquial Sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters
( Charles RICKETTS ) HARDY, Thomas
REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: [Osgood McIlvaine], [1894]
Stock code: 51929
Price: £290.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; decorative green cloth gilt, covers tooled in gilt and red to an art-nouveau floral design by Charles Ricketts, gilt back, very near fine copy.
Collects eight short stories, plus the portmaneau piece 'A Few Crusted Characters' comprising nine further tales. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Purdy, p.85.