MULOCK, DINAH MARIA ("MISS MULOCK" OR MRS. CRAIK) — John Halifax, Gentleman (Everyman\'s Library #123)

London / New York: Everyman\'s Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. A 1969 reprint of the 1906 issuance. An Everyman\'s Library edition of the author\'s 1856 novel, centered around an orphan boy who is determined to make something of himself. The author, Dinah Maria Craik, often wrote under her maiden name of Miss Mulock. With an introduction by W. M. Parker. Everyman\'s Library #123, an entry in their Fiction series. --- In Everyman\'s Library larger format binding style 5. Full red cloth-covered boards with titling and "Everyman\'s Library" gilt-stamped on spine, dolphin-and-anchor device borrowed from Aldine Press in gilt at tail of spine; blue topstain. In purple dust jacket with John Plant drawing on front panel. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound & unmarked though with small area of soiling along top cover edge (and to jacket edge). Price-clipped jacket iwith mild rubbing & chafing to extremities, else intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xiv, 421, 8 (ads) pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .