Beatrice
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. First edition. Black cloth boards with gilt title. 384pp. Top text block is untrimmed. Foxing to text block and pages but contents remain clear and bright. Some bumps and swelling to spine as well as some rubbing to edges. A really lovely copy. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1890.
Synopsis
The autumn afternoon was fading into evening. It had been cloudy weather, but the clouds had softened and broken up. Now they were lost in slowly darkening blue. The sea was perfectly and utterly still. It seemed to sleep, but in its sleep it still waxed with the rising tide. The eye could not mark its slow increase, but Beatrice, standing upon the farthest point of the Dog Rocks, idly noted that the long brown weeds which clung about their sides began to lift as the water took their weight, till at last the delicate pattern floated out and lay like a woman's hair upon the green depth of sea.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Broad Street Book Centre
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 109803
- Title
- Beatrice
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- classic boys adventure fiction lost world H Rider Haggard novel unit seven
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Broad Street Book Centre
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys
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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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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