Binding on text block is firm. Front gutter cracked rear gutter firm. Book is bound with blue cloth. Boards are straight but rubbed and worn. Pages are clean. No marking or writing noted in book. Spine has very readable Gilt lettering. 146 pages. The following is a Review from "The Literary World" Vol. XLVI Dec 1892: ""The Blue House", translated from the Flemish of Henri Conscience, is a pretty story, of which the scene is laid in Antwerp at the beginning of the present century. The hero, a young shopman, Simon Horms, is in love with the daughter of his neighbour, Master Verhoeven, the cowherd. He has to contend against two obstacles, a righ rival and the illness of his mother, which, it is feared, would condemn her daughter-in-law to the life of a nurse. All, however, ends happily - - Simon going into business on his own account and making a fortune by a lucky accident. There is an air of simple, unpretentious reality about "The Blue House" which makes us regret that its English dress does not fit better."" ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 146 pages