"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust

London: Cassell & Company, 1893. [South-Sea Novellas] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with hand-corrected price on page facing half-title. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 277 [19]. Advertisements dated 3.93. With 28 illustrated plates, including a colour map and a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue grained cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Floral-patterned endpapers; fore and lower edges untrimmed. Some light spotting to preliminaries. Gently toned throughout with a light tobacco scent. Light rubbing to cloth, and very slight toning to spine. Very good. Item #58637
Price: £150.00