The Gate of Death. A Diary.
by Benson (A.C.) [published anonymously]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
NY & London: Putnam's, 1906.. First American edition. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the title on a bed of red. Top edge gilt. A bit of discoloration of cloth at lower spine and edges, a clean very good copy generally. The British edition was published by Smith, Elder in the same year. Written in the form of diary entries.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55275
- Title
- The Gate of Death. A Diary.
- Author
- Benson (A.C.) [published anonymously]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY & London: Putnam's, 1906.
- Bookseller catalogs
- SFcat;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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