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Short, William Henry
De Merley
Publisher: J & JS Mackay, Herald Office, Morpeth;
Date of Publication: 1924
Stock Code: 4553
Reprint. Octavo. [6], 340 pp. Book Condition: Near Fine. Publishers’ maroon cloth with gilt titles and ruling to spine and blind border to boards; all edges sprinkled red. Floral endpapers. Minor rubbing to cover cloth at tail of spine; 1-inch split to inner front hinge (binding fault). No annotation or inscriptions. A clean, sound copy. Novel set in the Morpeth and Newminster Abbey area of Northumberland by local resident, painter and member of the Select Improvement Class at Morpeth William Short, originally published in 1849. Very scarce £50.00