The Scottish Wehr-Wolf

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First edition. 329 pages. Undated, and I can find nothing else from the same publisher, but looks to be perhaps 1880s/1890s from the style of binding. Inscribed by the author to the dedication page: "To Walter Jones Esq with best wishes from yours faithfully Ralston Gavine". Formerly the property of Dunbarton County Library, with their labels to the front endpaper and pastedown, as well as other indications of ownership in the form of stamps or noted references. The book is in dilapidated condition, what looks to be the publisher's original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to the spine, is quite heavily rubbed, bumped and marked, with small tears to the cloth. The front gutter has split and detached from the text block entirely, though the rear gutter is holding, the block has split away from the book to the rear between pages 326 and 327, and has additional cracking at points. The pages are roughly trimmed to the top-edge and untrimmed to the foredge and bottom, they are slightly toned and foxed, with some dog-eared corners and minor damage to the edges. An interesting novel, set between the Scottish Highlands, and Liverpool, where a young Scottish lad is learning the difficult trade of the tallyman, collecting instalments from the poor folk of the city. Much of it is written in Scottish dialect, with some decidedly antisemitic passages relating to a rival firm run by a Jewish family. There is much reference to debt, poverty and suicide by drowning in the Mersey, and degressions upon the morality of the trade, also its social acceptability, which adversely impacts the young man's chances of marrying well. An interesting and extremely rare title, I can trace no copies in institutional holdings worldwide. N° de ref. del artículo 5491

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