Old Mortality: The Waverley Novels #5
by Walter Scott
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Oak Grove, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Hardback, no dust jacket, spine ends and corners frayed, cover is scuffed, spine cracked inside back cover, pages yellowing, text clean
Synopsis
Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679-89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels. It was originally titled The Tale of Old Mortality, but is generally shortened in most references.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Read It Again Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1093
- Title
- Old Mortality
- Author
- Walter Scott
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
- Date Published
- 1886
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Read It Again Books
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Oak Grove, Missouri
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1111 Broadway
Oak Grove, Missouri 64027
Ph. (816)690-5660
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- Jacket
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