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Heart Of The World
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London, England / New York, New York / Bombay, India: Longmans, Green and Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1896. First English Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 347 pages: 5.25 x 7.5 in.: 1.8: KB#010057: No Dustjacket. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are dark blue cloth (dark on front and back but lightly faded on spine) with beveled edges and embossed gilt lettering on front and spine. Black endpapers. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright (except as noted above), tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a prior owner's (Raymond J. Schweizer) bookplate neatly adhered to inside of front board. Illustrations include tissue-protected frontispiece and 14 additional full-page drawings by Amy Sawyer. Contains 347 pages of text, followed by a 24-page catalogue of other Longmans' published works of the time. This edition was published 27 March 1896. This is a "Lost Race" fantasy set in a Mayan golden city under a lake, that was originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly 1894 - 1895. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. : B&W Illustrations .
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- Bookseller
- KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010057
- Title
- Heart Of The World
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Illustrator
- Amy Sawyer
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition: First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, England / New York, New York / Bombay, India
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Fiction
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About the Seller
KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
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Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
About KEENER BOOKS (Member IOBA)
Keener Books (Member IOBA) (Keener Books & Collectibles, LLC) is an exclusively online bookdealer, located in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the southwest side of Lake Michigan.We specialize in books relating to food, fine dining and entertainment, although we also carry books in many other subjects, mostly non-fiction.All of the photos shown are actual pictures of our books. We do not use stock images. What you see is what you receive.
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- Gilt
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- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
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- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
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