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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...name of Jones. It was no light matter for a man--and worse still for a poor girl--to be left without a penny or a friend in a strange town hundreds of miles from home. The poor players helped each other as well as they could, but provincial Pros, are--or, at least, were--not a wealthy class, and, after having paid their fares down, and kept themselves for a week or a fortnight, the most bloated capitalists among them rarely had more than a few shillings remaining in their pockets. Wardrobes had to be left as security with irate landladies, and, until they were redeemed or replaced, no other engagement was possible. Friends, poor enough themselves, goodness knows, had to be begged of. Every kind of valuable, even the wedding ring, had to be pawned, and the return home was made with troubled faces and empty hands. The misery caused by these scoundrels makes one's blood boil to think of. I have known men and women forced to tramp home again half across the kingdom, seeking shelter in casual wards when the nights were too cold or wet to sleep under a haystack. I have known actors and actresses obliged to sell the clothes off their backs in order to get fresh stage wardrobes. I have known whole families, after having scraped together every penny they could get, so as to be able to join one of these companies, come back again a few days afterwards, utterly destitute, and compelled to sell the few sticks of furniture they had about the place before making another start. I knew one poor fellow, left penniless in Glasgow, with a delicate young wife near her confinement, and they had to come back to London by boat--steerage passage--for, after pledging everything, that was all they had money enough for. It was fearful weather in the middle of January, and the vessel ...Hide synopsis
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Description:Fine. 0862998867 Packaged carefully to protect the corners...UK...Fine. 0862998867 Packaged carefully to protect the corners...UK 1st edition, clean & bright, DJ has afew light scratches on rear panel, price intact, square corners, tight binding, not a remainder.
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Description:Very Good in Good jacket. Very good hardback with very good...Very Good in Good jacket. Very good hardback with very good dust jacket. Illustrated by Kenneth M. Skeaping. 1st American ed.; 0.7 x 9.8 x 6.8 Inches; 176 pages.
Description:Kenneth M. Skeaping. Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12"...Kenneth M. Skeaping. Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Red cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket, virtually as issued. xvi, 143 pp., illus.
