George du Maurier — The Martian a Novel

London, Harper & Brothers, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated work by George du Maurier. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and forty-eight images by the author. Collated complete. A a largely autobiographical novel describing the life of Barty Josselin as told by his friend Robert Maurice, from their schooldays in Paris in 1850 to death. The novel is written in long descriptive passages with many digressions and very little dialogue. Written by George du Maurier, a Franco-British cartoonist and writer known for work in Punch and a Gothic novel Trilby. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to extremities. Spine is faded. Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained but firm. Pages are very bright and clean. Good . Ill.: George du Maurier. Good .