hung yet round sea-girt rocks, and 'faery lands forlorn, ' still beckoned me; perhaps I felt that London was too full, the Highlands rather fuller, the Swiss mountains most insufferably crowded of them all. Money can buy company, and it can buy retirement. The latter service I asked now of the moderate wealth with which my poor cousin Tom's death had endowed me. Everybody was good enough to suppose that I rejoiced at Tom's death, whereas I was particularly sorry for it, and was not consoled even by the prospect of the ...
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hung yet round sea-girt rocks, and 'faery lands forlorn, ' still beckoned me; perhaps I felt that London was too full, the Highlands rather fuller, the Swiss mountains most insufferably crowded of them all. Money can buy company, and it can buy retirement. The latter service I asked now of the moderate wealth with which my poor cousin Tom's death had endowed me. Everybody was good enough to suppose that I rejoiced at Tom's death, whereas I was particularly sorry for it, and was not consoled even by the prospect of the island. My friends understood this wish for an island as little as they appreciated my feelings about poor Tom. Beatrice was most emphatic in declaring that 'a horrid little island' had no charms for her, and that she would never set foot in it. This declaration was rather annoying, because I had imagined myself, spending my honeymoon with Beatrice on the island; but life is not all honeymoon, and I decided to have the island none the less. Besides I was not to be married for a year. Mrs Kennett Hipgrave had insisted on this delay in order that we might be sure that we knew our own hearts. And as I may say without unfairness that Mrs Hipgrave was to a considerable degree responsible for the engagement-she asserted the fact herself with much pride-I thought that she had a right to some voice in the date of the marriage. Moreover the postponement just gave me the time to go over and settle affairs in the island. For I had bought it. It cost me seven thousand five hundred and fifty pounds, rather a fancy price but I could not haggle with the old lord-half to be paid to the lord's bankers in London, and the second half to him in Neopalia, when he delivered possession to me. The Turkish Government had sanctioned the sale, and I had agreed to pay a hundred pounds yearly as tribute. This sum I was entitled, in my turn, to levy on the inhabitants
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over 15 b/w illus (inc plts) Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Used VG in cloth (sl rubbing/sunning to cloth; prev owner's inscr). 8vo [6]+306+ plts Originally published in Great Britain in 1896. Illustrated by Henry B. Wechsler.
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Very Good. Illus. by Henry B. Wechsler. 7.5 x 5", gilt-pict green cloth, 306pp, covers with some edge-wear, spine sunned and a little cocked, ink inscription from former owner on front fly (dated 1897) else a nice, bright, decorative cloth binding.
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Very good. First Edition. First American Edition. No Dustjacket. Clean green cloth boards with black lettering, silver, gold and black. decoration/illustration on cover. Light browning to spine. Very little wear to boards. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. ex. lib. with stamps on FFEP, and bottom edge 100% of this purchase will support literacy programs through a nonprofit organization!
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VeryGood+ unmarked, darkened spine, bright cover. Novel later made into a movie (Possession, 1922). Solid bright tight copy of 1st. 5-3/4 x 7-3/4, 306 pp, b/w dwgs, b/w full-pg plates.
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