Search Results: Classic from Dead Tree Books

Book is as shown on main listing. Cover has a scribble in pen by the title, and the upper front corner has a small piece missing. There is tanning, and creasing on the front by the spine. No stickers/residue, no spine creases. On the first page, there is an stamp and some old price information. No other writing or markings noted. Pages are secure, but the front cover does feel fragile from use. Overall, a decent reading copy. Nonsmoking environment.

One evening of late summer, before the nineteeth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors in Upper Wessex, on foot. They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now.