MANX TALES ... Introductory preface by Rev. T. E. Brown. Manchester: John Haywood, Deansgate and Ridgefield, Manchester. 29 & 30, Shoe Lane, London, E. G. 22, Paradise Street Liverpool. 33, Bridge Street, Bristol. 15, Briggate, Leeds, n.d. [1895]. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4 [5] 6-127 [128: blank], original gray wrappers printed in black. First edition. A collection of "genuine" Manx stories in Manx dialect written with "skill and sympathy" for "Manxmen and things" by a Lancashire man according to Rev. Brown. Contents: "An Angler's Holiday Among the Manx Mountains;" "How 'Our Thobm and Kirree' Went from Laxey to Midsummer Fair;" and "'Our Kirree's' Story About 'Herrin' an' Pas'e.'" Wrappers soiled and worn at edges, a few leaves dog-eared, a good copy. (#169968).
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