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RODNEY STONE
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good minus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Very good minus.. First US edition of Doyle's historical novel, a thrilling story of boys, blacksmithing, bare-knuckle boxing, and beaux Brummel, set around the turn of the 19th century and featuring several cameos by famous Regency personages of interest. 7.25'' x 5''. Original silver- and gilt-stamped red cloth. Brown endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Sidney Paget. 408 pages followed by publisher's catalogue. Small ink notation and short closed tear to front endpaper, faint ownership stamp to half-title page. Front hinge cracking but firm; rear hinge starting. Rubbing and edgewear to spine and extremities.
Synopsis
From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them understand. We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a diffe-rent age. It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man. They can learn how Freedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelson's blood was shed, and Pitt's noble heart was broken in striving that she should not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across the Atlantic. All this they can read, with the date of this treaty or that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of ourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the world seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50232
- Title
- RODNEY STONE
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good minus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Sherlockiana,19th century
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About the Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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