Adventures of Gerard
by Conan Doyle, A. Illustrated by W. B. Wollen
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
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About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1903. First edition. Cloth. Fair. Small 8vo, 297 pp. Spine cocked, extremities bumped, covers rubbed and handled, hinges cracked, page edges tanned and a bit dusty, light soiling to endpapers, finger marks to a few pages.
Synopsis
From the book:I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read. Setting aside historical works or the biograp-hies of the leaders there is a mass of evidence written by the actual fighting men themselves, which describes their feelings and their experiences, stated always from the point of view of the particular branch of the service to which they belonged. The Cavalry were particularly happy in their writers of memoirs. Thus De Rocca in his "Memoires sur la guerre des Francais en Espagne" has given the narrative of a Hussar, while De Naylies in his "Memoires sur la guerre d'Espagne" gives the same campaigns from the point of view of the Dragoon. Then we have the "Souvenirs Militaires du Colonel de Gonneville," which treats a series of wars, including that of Spain,
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17678
- Title
- Adventures of Gerard
- Author
- Conan Doyle, A. Illustrated by W. B. Wollen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
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- Fiction; Illustrated;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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