The plot of this novel is based upon the outcome of a protracted lawsuit between the once-wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocrat Peter Barrington and the British East India Company. At stake is the inheritance of Barrington's granddaughter, Josephine, whose claim is based on her father's having been made the heir of the Rajah of Luckerabad in Bengal. Once compared favorably to Dickens and extremely popular in the 1840's and 1850's, Charles Lever's reputation suffered increasing criticism in the late 19th century and he is not well ...
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The plot of this novel is based upon the outcome of a protracted lawsuit between the once-wealthy Anglo-Irish aristocrat Peter Barrington and the British East India Company. At stake is the inheritance of Barrington's granddaughter, Josephine, whose claim is based on her father's having been made the heir of the Rajah of Luckerabad in Bengal. Once compared favorably to Dickens and extremely popular in the 1840's and 1850's, Charles Lever's reputation suffered increasing criticism in the late 19th century and he is not well known today, and is sometimes in fact referred to as "The Lost Victorian."
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Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Blackstone Library Friends rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Blackstone, VA, UNITED STATES, published by George Routledge and Sons.
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Good. No dust jacket. Edges little worn. Cover clean and bright. Pages clean except former owners inked names inside front cover. Some foxing on end pages. Good binding. 493 p. Not dated but story written 1863. Dark green fabric hard cover with gold gilt title and black ink illustrated cover. Deep dark blue end papers. Beautiful ink pen illustrations. 19cm
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $20.50, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1890 by George Routledge.
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Used-Good. Good hardback in half-leathe. Undated & with no edition stated-probably a reprint c.1890. In red half-leather with gilt lettering & rules on spine; marbled boards. End papers browned & stained; text generally clean in firm binding; paper on boards a little scuffed & worn; some wear to spine.
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $24.06, good condition, Sold by Cambridge Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cambridge, Gloucestershire, UNITED KINGDOM, published by George Routledge & Sons.
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $24.99, good condition, Sold by Harry Righton rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Worcs, UNITED KINGDOM, published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
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Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Green bds with gilt title to spine. a little patchy soiling to bds. spine sunned. b/w illus. bindings loosening to a few text pages. foxing to endpapers. Interior Good ++.
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $28.73, fair condition, Sold by Bookcase rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Carlisle, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1863 by Chapman and Hall.
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Good Minus. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo. Heavy general wear to boards including rubbing, bumping and chipping. Usual stamps and markings. PP mildly marked but overal readable. Bought as is.
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $30.13, good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1863 by Chapman and Hall.
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Used-Good. Good hardback. 1st edition, 1863 in green cloth with blind-stamped rules on boards; blind-stamping & gilt lettering on spine. Illustrations by Phiz ('illustrations by H.K. Brown' in gilt at foot of spine. Small bookshop blind-stamp on front free end paper; frontis & pictorial title page a little browned; a few spots of foxing. Wear at board corners, & head & foot of spine.
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $44.00, good condition, Sold by JWMah rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1863 by Chapman and Hall.
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Phiz. Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (UK) Bookseller's blind-embossed stamp to endpaper, no markings, tiny split to cloth at the rear spine edge, about Very Good used copy; no dust jacket. Green textured boards, gold spine titles, viii, 411p. B&W pen and ink drawings bu Phiz, (this was the next-to-last-novel that Phiz illustrated for Lever). Lever was an irish writer and this is a novel about a protracted lawsuit between aristocract Peter Barrington and the British East India Company. (2.0 JM HOQ 103/b3.
Add this copy of Barrington to cart. $59.69, very good condition, Sold by BooksForTheNeedy rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cincinnati, OH, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Little, Brown and Company.
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Very Good. Size: 0x0x0; Order today-sent today, M-F*. Handsome 121-year-old in superb condition for its age, with lightly-scuffed cover and some mild abrasion/bumping on cover edges/corners. Age-tanned, clean, solid text pages. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4: 30 PM M-F.
