• Home
  • About us
  • Services
    • Selling your Books
    • Building a Library or Collection
    • Buying at Auction
    • Valuations
  • Book Fairs
  • Contact us
 
login

Search our Stock

Advanced Search

Our Catalogues

Current Catalogues

Forthcoming Catalogues

Subscribe to our Catalogues

Books for Presents logo

Bizarre Books

Jarndyce Greeting Cards

How to Abandon Ship

back to search results

Consequences.

CASTLE, Egerton. Consequences. A novel. 3 vols. Richard Bentley and Son. 1891
Titles printed in red and black. Original maroon weave-patterned cloth, spines lettered in gilt; sl. mark to spine vol. II.

¶Not in Sadleir; Wolff 1146. An army officer, George Kerr, marries a young Spanish girl, and attempts suicide after assaulting his wife. When the gun fails to fire, he then fakes his own death by drowning & travels to South America. After serving in the Confederate Army, he returns to find he has a son. The author served in India & in the Royal Engineers Militia, later becoming a newspaper proprietor in Liverpool. He subsequently wrote many successful novels in partnership with his wife Agnes.
Stock #88345
£350


association logos
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
Home | Links | Contact Us | Terms | Privacy Policy