Men in Chains

by Marcus Clarke

Original Penguin orange and white cover. General shelf wear to spine, corners and edges. Front cover shows 3 cm pencil mark / scratch at lower border toward outside edge, and two 1 mm brown dots halfway up outside edge. Rear cover has 5 mm tear on lower edge next to spine. Spine shows sunning, light creasing, and 1 - 2 mm wear at top and base of spine. Rusting of binding staples is visible on FEP and BEP, no rust has transferred to adjacent paper. On FEP next to staples a thin layer of paper is present in places, 2 mm across, which has transferred from the front cover. Slight wrinkling on lower page block near spine near back of book. Text is clean, bright and tight throughout.

187 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1944

About the author

Australian writer Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, known as Marcus Clarke, was born in Kensington, London. His mother died when he was just a small child and he was raised by his father, a lawyer.
Marcus Clarke moved to Victoria, Australia, where he had an uncle in the provincial town of Ararat, and landed in Melbourne in June 1863. In 1869 Clarke married the actress Marian Dunn and shortly afterwards they started to raise a family of six children. He died of pleurisy at the age of thirty-five.