The blinds had been drawn down for some time in the back parlour behind Mr. Fairchild's shop in Pier Street, the principal street in the little town of Seacove. And the gas was lighted, though it was not turned up very high. It was a great thing to have gas; it had not been known at Seacove till recently. For the time of which I am writing is now a good many years ago, thirty or forty at least. Seacove, though a small place, was not so out-of-the-way in some respects as many actually larger towns, for it was a seaport, ...
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The blinds had been drawn down for some time in the back parlour behind Mr. Fairchild's shop in Pier Street, the principal street in the little town of Seacove. And the gas was lighted, though it was not turned up very high. It was a great thing to have gas; it had not been known at Seacove till recently. For the time of which I am writing is now a good many years ago, thirty or forty at least. Seacove, though a small place, was not so out-of-the-way in some respects as many actually larger towns, for it was a seaport, though not a very important one. Ships came in from all parts of the globe, and sailed away again in due course to the far north, and still farther off south; to the great other world of America, too, no doubt, and to the ancient eastern lands. But it was the vessels going to or coming from the strange mysterious north-the land of everlasting snow, where the reindeer and, farther north still, the white bear have their home, and where the winter is one long, long night-it was somehow the thought of the north that had the most fascination for the little girl who was sitting alone in the dull parlour behind the shop this late November evening. And among the queer outlandish-looking sailors who from time to time were to be seen on the wharf or about the Seacove streets, now and then looking in to buy a sheet of paper and an envelope in her father's shop, it was the English ones belonging to the whalers or to the herring smacks bound for the north who interested Celestina by far the most.
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Used-Acceptable. Fair hardback in blue cloth. Illustrated by Walter Crane. Acceptable hardback with decorative blue cloth covers. Boards are bumped at edges and corners. Spine has split and been reglued at rear joint. Hinges cracked & repaired. 2 previous owners' inscriptions on front free end paper. foxing throughout, yellowing to fore-edges. All in all a bit tatty, but still readable!
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Crane, Walter. Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Red cloth boards with black illustration and titles to front and spine. Lean to spine; wear to edges and bumping to corners. Black end papers. Prev owner's name and date (1889) at top of half title page. Frontispiece present and all other illustrations. Pages clean. No jacket.
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