Description
First edition, first printing of Everything to Gain by Barbara Taylor Bradford, from her personal collection.
Octavo, xvi, 361pp, [1]. Finely bound in full orange morocco, gilt trim along covers. Four raised bands, title in gilt on spine in compartments. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Books from the library of Barbara Taylor Bradford are bound in the style of the Bayntun-Riviere Bindery. Stated “First Edition,” with full number line listed on copyright page. Solid text block, fine condition.
Inscribed on the front flyleaf by four of Bradford’s fellow HarperCollins peers.
Housed in a matching orange morocco slipcase, near fine.
Provenance: Doyle Auctions of New York, May 2025. This copy is from the private collection of Barbara Taylor Bradford, a British-American novelist. Following the success of her debut novel, A Woman of Substance (1979), Bradford wrote 40 best-selling novels, often about young women advancing in the world through hard work.
