Tom Brown's School Days
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, circa 1941.
Hardcover. 8" X 5 3/4". 230pp. Book presents nicely with clipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Wear to jacket with rubbing, toning, creasing, and shallow chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in green cloth over boards with spine and front cover stamped in black. Rubbing to covers and toning/soiling to edges of boards. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint foxing to endpapers. Inked gift inscription dated Christmas 1941 to front free endpaper. Age-toning to pages. Pages feel somewhat brittle, but are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
One of the classics of English children's literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, this novel's steady popularity has given it an influence well beyond the upper middle-class world that it describes. It tells a story central to an understanding of Victorian life, but its freshness helps to distinguish it from the narrow schoolboy adventures that it later inspired.(Publisher). Good / good. Item #9800
Price: $12.00