Rare first edition, leather Richard Whiteing boo, "Ring In The New", 1906. Published by Leipzig Bernhard Tauchnitz. It says, "Copyright edition." Its' cover is leather with a paper print design.
Very hard to find leather cover and it states, "Printing office of the publisher".
Condition: Front, spine and back cover has some wear, but nothing that gets in the way of how cool this will look on display. The pages are clean, no writing for bent pages. The blank inside front pages and back ones have some discoloration and the person, who owned the book, has their signature on there.
The binding is strong. Great condition for it's age.
A scarce novel from English author and journalist Richard Whiteing (1840 - 1928), who rose to prominence with his 3rd novel, 1899's 'No. 5 John Street'. Other works include the prequel to that book 'The Island', 'The Yellow Van' and 'All Moonshine'. Richard Whiteing - ( 27 July 1840 – 29 June 1928), English author and journalist. The novel principally concerns the struggles of Prue Meryon to support herself through work, and is "a passionate cry for new heavens and a new earth realizable here below". Whiteing was a supporter of the women's suffrage movement.
"Richard Whiteing was born in London the son of Mary Lander and William Whiteing, a civil servant employed as an Inland Revenue Officer. His mother died early and Richard claimed to have spent much of his upbringing with foster parents. For seven years in his youth Whiteing was apprenticed to Benjamin Wyon as a medalist and seal-engraver;[1] meanwhile he was also educating himself on the side. In 1866, after a failed attempt to start his own medalist business,[citation needed] he turned to journalism as a career. He made his debut with a series of papers in the Evening Star in 1866, printed separately in the next year as Mr Sprouts, His Opinions. He became leader-writer and correspondent on the Morning Star, and was subsequently on the staff of the Manchester Guardian, the New York World, and for many years the Daily News, resigning from the last-named paper in 1899.[1]His first novel The Democracy (3 vols, 1876) was published under the pseudonym of Whyte Thorne. His second novel The Island (1888) was about a utopian life on Pitcairn Island; it attracted little attention until, years afterwards, its successor, No. 5 John Street (1899), made him famous; the earlier novel was then republished. No. 5 John Street has the character from the first novel return to London, but has no money, and describes the low-life of London. Later works were The Yellow Van (1903), Ring in the New (1906), All Moonshine (1907).[1]Whiteing died 29 June 1928 in Hampstead and is buried in the Parish Church of St. John-at-Hampstead, Church Row, London near his son Richard Clifford (1870–1923).[citation needed]Family[edit]Whiteing's autobiography, My Harvest, written in 1915, led many to believe he was an only child, whose mother had died in the 1840s when he was quite young. However family historian, Kathleen Whiteing Fitzgerald, revealed that Whiteing actually had three siblings. There were two brothers, Robert & George, who had both lived well into adulthood and a sister Elizabeth who died as an infant. Fitzgerald noted that in the 1861 London census Whiteing, then 20 years old, was listed as living with both of his parents and his younger brother George. Richard's father, William, died in Beverley in 1876, and his mother died in Kensington in 1884."
Wonderful collector's book.
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