Gissing, George

8vo (189 x 125mm.), 3 volumes, first edition,  half-titles, 2 pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of volume 1, original dark blue-green morocco cloth lettered and decorated in black on upper covers and lettered in gilt on the spines, pale yellow endpapers, preserved in quarter-brown morocco folding box (by the Lakeside Press, Chicago), minor discoloration from endpapers offset onto blank leaves before titles, some very minor marginal staining to a few leaves of gathering F in volume 2, still a very fine copy

Sadleir 971; Wolff 2552

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A beautiful copy of Gissing's classic novel set in the literary and journalistic worlds of 1880s London.  "Its main characters have become recognized symbols of the many shades of professional integrity and adaptability in the literary world, shades not substantially affected by the passing of the years..." (Pierre Coustillas, Oxford DNB)