 | - Book Title: Stories from Browning
- Author: Verney Cameron Turnbull
- ISBN: MW00913128413
- Publisher: Harrap
- Year Published: 1914
- Our Normal Price: £55.00 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: George Harrap, London 1914: believed first of this edition: soft green leather with raised black cameo of Robert Browning to centre front, and half inch overlap to edges: indented black lettering to spine: approximately 6 by 8.5 inches tall: 271 pages: 12 tipped- in colour illustrations including frontispiece by Sybil Barham. Synopsis: A 31 page biography of Robert Browning by Verney Cameron Turnbull precedes a selection of Browning's stories including the following: -- Book One: Classic Tales. Pan and Luna. Echetlos. Book Two: Knights and Ladies. Come Gismond . The Three Brides( 1.My Last Duchess. 2.The Statue and the Bust. 3.The Flight of the Duchess.) Rudel. The Glove. Colombe's Birthday. Book Three: Peasant Tales. The Italian in England. Herve Riel. Halbert and Hob. BookFour : Legends of The Ideal.. The Patriot. The Boy and the Angel. Book Five : Legends Of the Faith. Karshish. The Confessional. Book Six : Tragedies. Youth and Art. A Soul's Tragedy. Martin Relph. Clive. Ivan Ivanovitch. Book 7: Stories of Animals. Tray. Donald. Muleykeh. The tipped- in coloured illustrations in winsome pre-raphaelite style by Sybil Barham are entitled as follows:- So she peeped at the young sculptor over the way (frontispiece). It lay before her, white and soft and still. The lady would see it every day conning the square. Her hands rose and fell in mystic measure. 'Come Valence' she cried. She saw him. Hob was followed by a lad who pelted him with stones. ' Praise God! 'His face shone with some unaccountable peace. ' Hush and pray! We are to die'. Watching him with breathless delight. ' Good dog! Good dog!' exclaimed the woman. Condition: spine shelf faded: cover edges slightly stressed: hinge separation upper 2 inches of front endpapers , pages 16/17, pages 80/81,: overall clean (binding a little frail but still firm) and collectable.
- Condition: Collectable- Good
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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