Excerpt: ...The stone in the shoe that lames you. Other folk Might be ashamed to do the things I've done: That's their look-out; they've got no call to do them: I've never done what I would blush to own to: I've got my self-respect. For all my talk, I'm proud of Michael: and you're proud of Ruth, I take it? Judith: Ay. Bell: Then, where's the need for shame, Because they were come-by-chances? A mean thief That snivels, because the fruit he relishes Is stolen; and keeps munching it to the core. Married, and so lived happily ...
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Excerpt: ...The stone in the shoe that lames you. Other folk Might be ashamed to do the things I've done: That's their look-out; they've got no call to do them: I've never done what I would blush to own to: I've got my self-respect. For all my talk, I'm proud of Michael: and you're proud of Ruth, I take it? Judith: Ay. Bell: Then, where's the need for shame, Because they were come-by-chances? A mean thief That snivels, because the fruit he relishes Is stolen; and keeps munching it to the core. Married, and so lived happily ever after? A deal of virtue in a wedding-ring: And marriage-lines make all the difference, don't they? Your man and mine were born in lawful wedlock: 75 And sober, honest, dutiful sons they've proved: While our two bastards, Ruth and . Judith: Never been A better daughter! Bell: Then, what would you have? You've had her to yourself, without the worrit Of a man to wear your soul out, all these years. If I'd been married, before a week was through, I'd have picked my husband's pocket, to buy rats' bane: Envying the spiders who can gobble up Husbands they've no more use for between meals. But I wasn't born to kick my heels in air For a plaguey husband: and if I'm to dangle, 'Twon't be for that, but something worth putting myself Out of the way for. You say I'll scorn you, woman. Who 'm I, to scorn? You're not my sort: but I ken Too much of life for easy scorn: I've learnt The lessons of the road. Judith: I've known the road, too; And learned its bitter . Bell: You didn't relish it? It's meat to me; but then, I like mixed pickles
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Add this copy of Krindlesyke to cart. $8.74, good condition, Sold by Arundel Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1922 by Macmillan.
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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Good condition in Good dust jacket with protective mylar cover. ix+139+[1]pp Uncommon verse drama. Tanning and light foxing to interior. Some shallow chipping to edges and spine of jacket.
Add this copy of Krindlesyke to cart. $19.18, good condition, Sold by Dodman Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Morston, NORFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1922 by Macmillan And Co.
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Good. No Jacket. Dramatic poem of Northumbrian rural life. Not, apparently, in dialect, but "flavoured with a sprinkling of local words". Blind-stamped 'Presentation Copy' to title page. This also with rems of label or similar at top. Some corner folds, pencil notation and occasional minor spotting but in general good order throughout. Brown boards dulled and lightly worn to edges. Paper title label to spine. 12mo. 140pp.
Add this copy of Krindlesyke to cart. $22.06, good condition, Sold by Stephen White Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bradford, WEST YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1922 by Macmillan and Co., Limited.
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Ex-library book, usual markings. Some markings to book covers due to age; still in good condition for its age. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Add this copy of Krindlesyke (1922) to cart. $45.62, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of Krindlesyke to cart. $56.29, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Pinnacle Press.
Add this copy of Krindlesyke to cart. $57.79, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2017 by Pinnacle Press.
Add this copy of Krindlesyke to cart. $58.64, very good condition, Sold by Burwood Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wickham Market, SUFFOLK, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1921 by Macmillan.
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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo pp 140. A play-part 1 had been published in 1910, a second part (Bell Haggard) appears here for the first time. Unsigned presentation copy in Gibson's distinctive thick black ink handwriting to a Dutch literary critic 'To Willem van Doorn, Coed Moe, July, 1922. ' Gibson lived at Coed Moe, Pembrokeshire in the 1920s. Original publisher's brown cloth with printed spine label. Very Good.
