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Buy this book on-line EDWARD**, JANE: : THE GIPSY AND THE GENTLEMAN. [Author SIGNED copy.**]UK.DEVON,ILFRACOMBE.ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL LTD.,1978. ISBN 0722311664.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/VG. No owner inscrptn,but author's handwritten black ink,warm dedication,signature and dated inscrptn: 'To Dear Lorna and Ron,With love From Alma (Jane Edward) 1978.' to front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,4-colour block (b/w,pink+green) pictorial illustrated upper panel of dw/dj,with black lettering; author's monochrome portrait photographic vignette to rear panel,with a potted biography.Dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Slight rubbing with miniscule loss to three corners of dw/dj,head of spine/ backstrip of same minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing; both panels with some superficial scoring/indentations but without penetration,therefore without affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore- edges generally clean - with some light ageing/toning and a couple of foxing spots; contents bright,tight,and clean, solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and near immaculate plain white endpapers - inscrptn excepted.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,5-117pp [paginated] includes 24 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and 2pp blanks at rear.A published,local,Plymouth born,bred and educated author.Author's 1st romantic novel and its sequel,called 'Pendavan' (see the following book ID rja574515 for a SIGNED copy.)
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Esmeralda is a gipsy girl,vivacious and very beautiful,with a mass of black hair. Many men,when they see her,want to possess such a lovely creature.
Unfortunately for her she has been seduced by one,but doesn't know his name, only that he is a gentleman by birth,and very handsome.Having been disowned by her father,because she is pregnant, she is rendered homeless.
Our story begins with Esmeralda,tired and hungry,after walking for what seems miles,
finding herself before massive iron gates,
leading to a large and forbidding-looking house. Even so,to her eyes it is a most welcome sight, she being almost ready to drop from sheer exhaustion.
How true love comes to Esmeralda after much suffering and heartbreak,is related in this 18thC tale,set on the coast of Cornwall.
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