THE SHIP OF STARS. London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1899. Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [vii] viii [1] 2-312 + 8-page and[16]-page publisher's catalogue, dated "11-99" on page 8 and "12.99" on page [1] respectively, inserted at rear, original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, white endpapers with publisher's devices printed in gray. First edition. This autobiographical life story of "Taffy" Raymond growing up in Cornwall in the 1860s, "is memorable as the record of a Cornish childhood. [It is] Quiller Couch's most substantial achievement in fiction." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, pp. 153; 573-74. NCBEL III 1072. Several light stains to cloth, hairline crack along inner front hinge, else a very good copy. (#105307).
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