The Four Feathers
by A. E. W. Mason
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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BACUP, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Originally published in 1902, a popular work and reprinted many times. This copy with the distinctive dustwrapper by Dick Hart (1920-?), which to my knowledge only appeared on the 1959 and 1965 printings.
Hardback in price-clipped dustwrapper with over-printed price. 316pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches approx. (190mm x 133mm).
Dustwrapper tanned to edges and folds; some light spotting/foxing to reverse side; a touch sunned/tanned to spine. Spine slightly cocked; endpapers with heavy foxing and offsetting; foxing to preliminaries and final pages but generally clean throughout; spotted and tanned to edges of page-block especially to top edge.
Overall, showing wear commensurate with sitting on a bookshelf long term otherwise a nice, clean copy – attractive and very uncommon with this dustwrapper design.
Ref. The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators by Alan Horne (Antique Collectors' Club, 1994).
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Synopsis
Harry Feversham is in love with the alluring Ethne Eustace. A dazzling engagement ball is held in their honour at her Irish country home. For Harry, it seems like life cannot get any better. But a mysterious package arrives for him and the contents turn out to be three white feathers. Publicly branded a coward, Harry suffers the ultimate humiliation when Ethne adds a fourth feather to his collection. Shunned from society, he sets out to regain his friends, fiancee and honour. Embarking on a deadly mission, which takes him from Ireland to England to Egypt, that tests his courage to the limits and his will to survive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DBZ1241
- Title
- The Four Feathers
- Author
- A. E. W. Mason
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1959
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature, Adventure, Fiction, Dustwrapper Art
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....