INSCRIBED BY MORRISON TO HIS WIFE
Tales of Mean Streets
Methuen, 1894.
First edition. Original green ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover. Author's presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his wife, "To my dear wife / Arthur Morrison / November 9th 1894" A near fine copy, bright and crisp with a small mark to the upper cover.
Morrison's first book and the opening book in his East End Trilogy, inscribed to his wife, Elizabeth Thatcher. Morrison's work is notable for his realistic descriptions of slum life in London's East End at the end of the Victorian era.
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