The Folks O' Carglen or, Life in the North
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891.
First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/8" X 5". 294pp. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Darkening and soiling to cloth, with mild edgewear, bumped corners, and scattered rubbing. Mild dust soiling and light foxing to endpapers. Photographic frontispiece. Binding is sound. Pages are unmarked. From the author's preface: "My endeavor has been to picture life in the north of Scotland as I knew it, with kindliness and sympathy....An attempt has, indeed, been made to give to 'Carglen' a local habitation and a name other than those I have given to it....My narrative is plain, faithful, and unadorned; but I decline to admit the accuracy of any particular identification. 'Carglen' is a purely imaginary world, though, let us hope, wonderfully like the real." Includes 5 previously unpublished Carglen stories. Good. Item #1801
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