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MacDonald, George, and Arthur Hughes (illus.), AT THE BACK OF THE
NORTH WIND (NY: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1873]).
Unstated second US edition, 17.5 x 12cm (16mo), in publisher's dark
green dotted-line cloth w/gilt & black decorations & title to
fr. cover & spine (blind ruling & decorative device to rear),
a.e.g., [i-v] vi-viii, [1] 2-378 pp. w/76 wood engravings by the
Dalziels after Hughes. Inscribed in ink to half-title: "Mrs.
Fisk, for her children, with love from their cousin George
MacDonald." Binding Very Good (rebacked w/most of the original
spine laid down & new head-&-tail bands & buff ep.s, &
extremities sl. bumped & rubbed); contents Very Good (B1's edges a
bit chipped, occas. lt. spotting, & moderate off-setting from the
engravings). Sadleir 1474c (incorrectly identified as the 1st US
ed.). (Inv. #752) C$1,600 Mrs. Elizabeth Ross (née Spence) Fiske was indeed a cousin of MacDonald's; in 1852 she married Lewis Ransom Fiske & by 1871 they had 2 children. It would appear that MacDonald inscr. this copy for her during his Mar. 1873 lecture tour stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan (see Raeper, GMacD p.301). Home Page |