FATHER STAFFORD. Chicago, New York: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher, 1895. Small octavo, original sage green cloth stamped in brown on front and spine, with Neely lizard device on front panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. By 1893 Hope "had published five moderately successful novels. The best of them are: FATHER STAFFORD (1891), a county-house comedy (Stafford is a high-living Anglican priest) and A CHANGE OF AIR (1893) ... 'Brilliant' was a word often applied to Hope's early novels ..." - Sutherland, Victorian Fiction, p. 285. Old ownership stamp and signature on front paste-down. Some mild soiling to cloth, mainly to rear cover, but a nearly fine copy. (#128935).
Price: $85.00
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