Chamberlain, Mrs Essington House Party, 1905 1stEd. ILL
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"Mrs. Essington: The Romance of a House-Party", by Esther and Lucia Chamberlain, with illustrations by Henry Hutt, published by the Century Co., New York, 1905. First Edition.
Their common amusement was made up of their common knowledge of his shabby income, his opera still on probation, and his purely potential career.
"Still, I don't reconcile you with that lot,' the young man broke out, after a silence that had lasted long enough to be intimate. He leaned toward her across the space between the two chairs, lifting his voice a little to be heard above the racket of the car-wheels.
The woman did not directly reply, unless there was an answer in the small profile smile she gave him. She had sat for the past ten minutes admirably still, her face turned from him, her eyes on the flat blue-green of onion-fields interminably wheeling past the window.
'I mean,' he presently went on in his easy fashion, 'they're hardly your sort. Oh, good people, but - dullish, you know; the kind you never put up with unless you have to..."
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c. 2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Their common amusement was made up of their common knowledge of his shabby income, his opera still on probation, and his purely potential career.
"Still, I don't reconcile you with that lot,' the young man broke out, after a silence that had lasted long enough to be intimate. He leaned toward her across the space between the two chairs, lifting his voice a little to be heard above the racket of the car-wheels.
The woman did not directly reply, unless there was an answer in the small profile smile she gave him. She had sat for the past ten minutes admirably still, her face turned from him, her eyes on the flat blue-green of onion-fields interminably wheeling past the window.
'I mean,' he presently went on in his easy fashion, 'they're hardly your sort. Oh, good people, but - dullish, you know; the kind you never put up with unless you have to..."
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) -------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c. 2-6 weeks) -- $27.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ---- $37.50
Condition
Hard boards, original decorated cloth [a little wear and soiling]; 5.1/4" x 7.3/4"; name dated July 19, 1906, is pen-written on the front endpaper; stained endpapers, 248 pages, color frontispiece and four plates on glossy paper protected by the tissue guards [all plates are present] a few stains, very good condition.
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Chamberlain, Mrs Essington House Party, 1905 1stEd. ILL
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