A Fair Barbarian
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. First Printing. Good copy in good jacket. In blue cloth covers with lettering in yellow on front cover and spine. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked ednpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine. Light to moderate shelf wear. Jacket is intact with price on upper front flap. Grey paper jacket with lettering in black on front cover and spine. Moderate wear. In new protective jacket cover. Photos upon request.. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Slowbridge had been shaken to its foundations. It may as well be explained, however, at the outset, that it would not take much of a sensation to give Slowbridge a great shock. In the first place, Slowbridge was not used to sensations, and was used to going on the even and respectable tenor of its way, regarding the outside world with private distrust, if not with open disfavor. The new mills had been a trial to Slowbridge, - a sore trial. On being told of the owners' plan of building them, old Lady Theobald, who was the corner-stone of the social edifice of Slowbridge, was said, by a spectator, to have turned deathly pale with rage; and, on the first day of their being opened in working order, she had taken to her bed, and remained shut up in her darkened room for a week, refusing to see anybody, and even going so far as to send a scathing message to the curate of St. James, who called in fear and trembling, because he was afraid to stay away. "With mills and mill-hands," her ladyship announced to Mr. Laurence, the mill-owner, when chance first threw them together, "with mills and mill-hands come murder, massacre, and mob law." And she said it so loud, and with so stern an air of conviction, that the two Misses Briarton, who were of a timorous and fearful nature, dropped their buttered muffins (it was at one of the tea-parties which were Slowbridge's only dissipation), and shuddered hysterically, feeling that their fate was sealed, and that they might, any night, find three masculine mill-hands secreted under their beds, with bludgeons. But as no massacres took place, and the mill-hands were pretty regular in their habits, and even went so far as to send their children to Lady Theobald's free school, and accepted the tracts left weekly at their doors, whether they could read or not, Slowbridge gradually recovered from the shock of finding itself forced to exist in close proximity to mills, and was just settling itself to sleep - the sleep of the just - again, when, as I have said, it was shaken to its foundations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005213
- Title
- A Fair Barbarian
- Author
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction, Romance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Romance;
Terms of Sale
Quaker House Books
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About the Seller
Quaker House Books
Biblio member since 2006
Catawissa, Pennsylvania
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