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Condition: Very Good. reprint of the 1905 edition, 147 pp., hardcover, very good . - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. pp. vii, 171. Uncut. Top edge gilt. Inked ownership of Arthur Holmes on front paste down. 12mo. 190mm. Original full blue cloth binding with Yapp edges. Spine and front board decorated with red roses and green leaves. Spine faded. Boards slightly worn. Hardbound. Very Good. Margaret Fairless Barber (1869-1901) was an English Christian writer who used the pseudonym Michael Fairless. This, her first book, is a religious romance. Her second, The Roadmender (1902) achieved a wild success and made her famous. LIT BX 8.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (illustrator). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 142p. A lovely copy with decorative cloth. The author was an English Christian writer who suffered with a severe spinal condition but served as a nurse at a children's hospital, and did charitable work in the East End of London until she herself became an invalid. It was during this time she wrote this reliigous romance, followed by her famous work The Roadmender which this book was issued in a matching binding with rich gilt design on front panel and three floral images on spine. The color art of Eleanaor Fortescue Brickdale is represented with eight color plates all with tissue guards that describe the scene represented in the book.

"First published 1902. Reprinted in the Riccardi Press Books 1920". One of only 12 copies bound in vellum. 9.25" x 6.52 x 0.75". pp.ix./pp.107/[4pp. - Colophon] . Vellum yellowed and lightly soiled. Gilt titles to front board and spine. Boards a little bowed. Top page edges gilt, other page edges deckled (rough-cut). Light brown marbled endpapers. Previous owner's signature tipped-in to front free-endpaper dated 15.3.44 . Clean throughout. VG. "Of this edition of The Roadmender have been printed in the Riccardi press fount on handmade Ricardi Paper 1025 copies, of which 1000 only are for sale, and on Vellum 15 copies, of which 12 only are for sale. Paper copy Number 144". ** Margaret Fairless Barber (pseudonym, Michael Fairless; 7 May 1869 24 August 1901), was an English Christian writer. Her book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902), became a popular classic. Barber took up writing under the pseudonym "Michael Fairless", the "Michael" inspired by her childhood friend Michael McDonnell (1882 1956), subsequently chief justice of the British Mandate of Palestine. Her first book was the religious romance The Gathering of Brother Hilarius (1901) but it was The Roadmender (1902) that achieved a wild success, being reprinted 31 times in 10 years. A posthumous work, The Grey Brethren, was issued in 1905. It consisted of a number of fragments and short fairy tales, intended for juvenile readers." - See Wikipedia .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. 1stUSedn; Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with titles and a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is bumped & rubbed and the backstrip is MISSING. Ow all the contents is present and in good shape: FAIR/ndj: ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black/white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The place was West Sussex, the Adur Valley, and Michael Fairless turned out to be a woman- Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 - 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, who was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, 'The Roadmender' (1902) became a popular classicDescription of the Sussex countryside North of Shoreham & GoringbySea. I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high hedge of saplings and a tangle of traveller's joy, woodbine, sweetbrier, and late roses. Opposite me is a white gate, seldom used, if one may judge from the trail of honeysuckle growing tranquilly along it: I know now that whenever and wherever I die my soul will pass out through this white gate; and then, thank God, I shall not have need to undo that trail. // The Roadmender, a devotional country book, was very much to early Edwardian taste, clearly touched a melancholy nerve and achieved popular classic status. When the book was published there was a great mystery surrounding who Michael Fairless was, and what locale did he describe with such love? cf Bellerive, Georges(1915) Eloges de l'agriculture dignite et bonheur de la vie rurale.

158 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. First edition. First edition. 158 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. CBEL III, 544 Green cloth. Boards and endpapers very faintly spotted, else Fine in green chemise, in open-faced slipcase.