JANE AUSTEN! RED GILT DECORATED MORROCCO LEATHER ! Persuasion ( with introduction by Forrest Reid ).

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 1957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

About this Item

Very good condition in the original genuine quarter leather red morrocco binding with attractive bright gilt decoration on the banded leather spine. Red boards a bit age mottled. Mark on bottom edge. Content clean. Decorated endpapers. Top edge gilt. A lovely mid-century production of this classic. Introduction by Forrest Reid. Forrest Reid (1875, Belfast, Ireland; 1947, Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland) was an Irish novelist, literary critic and translator. He was a leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and is still acclaimed as a noted Ulster novelist, being awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Young Tom. Seller Inventory # 80256