The Talk of the Town By James Payn Author of ‘By Proxy’ etc. etc. In two volumes Vol. I

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First of 2 volumes, 8vo. pp. [10], 282, [2], with 14 full-page illustrations. Original blue-grey pictorial cloth. On flyleaf verso, written in ink: “Catherine Nolliers [?] Back [?]”; in pencil: “Slun [?] Ex libris,” “Hodie Evy d.d. Harry Feb. MCMXXXI.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of the still quite readable and uncommon novel based on the career of ‘William Henry Erin,’ a thinly veiled version of William Henry Ireland.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style=