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Farjeon, B. L.
The Clairvoyante.
Publisher: Hutchinson & Company, London;
Date of Publication: 1905
Stock Code: 3473
First edition. Octavo, pp., [8], 277, [3] of publisher’s advertisements, lacks the 16pp. publisher’s catalogue, otherwise complete. Publisher’s original blue buckram; titled in gilt to spine; titled in white within black label to upper board; white end-papers. Contemporary bookseller’s blind stamp to end; manuscript book label of one ‘Joseph Harris’ to front; contemporary ownership inscription of one ‘E Thompson // the Croft’ to table of contents. Spine a little shaken; shelf-wear to corners. Internally clean. A very good copy. Benjamin Farjeon (1838-1903) was a Jewish-Australian novelist, a gold prospector, an admirer of Dickens, and father of children’s illustrator Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965). A supernatural novel narrated by an English prison doctor, who believes the heinous crimes of ‘inmate 43’ were not conducted under her own power, but by her husband’s mind control. £60.00