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Micah Clarke; His Statement as Made to His Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece by A. Castaigne. Early printing with two pages of ads at the rear. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Red cloth, faded at the spine, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, former owner's stamp inside the front board, clean otherwise. Conan Doyle's collection of stories "concerned with the grotesque and the terrible." About Very Good. Blue boards, lightly bumped and pushed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, gift inscription on the front endpaper, foxed throughout. Conan Doyle's historical adventure, coming-of-age novel about a young English man's time as a soldier of fortune during the Monmouth Rebellion.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10279
- Title
- Micah Clarke; His Statement as Made to His Three Grandchildren Joseph, Gervas, & Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- 19th Century Literature, Adventure, Travel, War, Coming of Age, English Literature, British Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2018
Woodstock, Illinois
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- Foxed
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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