HARTLEY, John

Small 8vo.,original green cloth lettered gilt. Portrait frontis.. 141pp., lengthy publisher’s list. A good copy, tight and clean. A little rubbing to spine and board edges. No publication date. Probably early 1900s. ‘J. H. Morris’ Darlington bookseller’s neat stamp to title page. John Hartley (1839–1915) prolific author writing in the Yorkshire dialect. Born in Halifax, Hartley wrote a number of books featuring "Sammywell Grimes" and his adventures and mishaps.