The Key of the Unknown

First edition, first printing. 416pp plus publisher’s adverts at rear. In red cloth-covered boards, decorated with blind embossing and gilt lettering, top edge gilt (cloth is rubbed and worn at rounded corners and bruised at spine tips). Light toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Slightly cocked. Rosa Nouchette was a popular novelist and children’s writer in the latter part of the 19th century. Her works reflect the values of her times, widely held to be wholesome reading matter for girls, but are not without grit and realism. This is one of her later novels. We have several Carey titles in stock and can offer generous discounts to those ordering more than one title at a time – please inquire. 12mo.

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