Adventure Stories from The Strand
by Beare, Geraldine (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Folio Society, 1995. Miniscule rubbing, bumping or shelfwear to boards, very slight wear to gold colored slipcase. Would be fine condition except one leaf (p. 11) has a crease and a one inch long tear at the outer edge. Green boards. front embossed design (man in explorer-type cap carrying flaming torch followed by spears, all in black, with light from torch and reflection on ground in gilt). Black letters in gilt background on spine. Stories by Rudyard Kipling, A.C. Doyle, Grant Allen, Fred M. White, Arthur Morrison, H.G. Wells, Richard Marsh, F. Anstey, Edgar Wallace, F. Britten Austin (2), Stacy Aumonier, Richmal Cromption, W. Somerset Maugham, Sinclair Lewis, A.E.W. Mason, 'Sapper', William C. White, Graham Greene, and Hilton Brown. 329 pp.. First. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Eccles, David. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Slipcase.
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- Bookseller
- First Used Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002014
- Title
- Adventure Stories from The Strand
- Author
- Beare, Geraldine (editor)
- Illustrator
- Eccles, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Anthologies - Short Stories the Strand Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthologies - Short Stories;
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