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Rose D'Albret. A Romance (1844 as Rose D'Albret; or Troubled Times. A Romance) & The Hidden Path (1855)
by Several Authors: G. P. R. James [George Payne Rainsford James] & Marion Harland [ie Mary Virginia Terhune]
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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LEWES, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Thomas Hodgson/G. Routledge, 1856. Book. Good. Hardcover. G. P. R. James: Rose D'Albret. A Romance (1844 as Rose D'Albret; or Troubled Times. A Romance). [Parlour Library]: Thomas Hodgson, nd [1856]. Bound with: Marion Harland: The Hidden Path (1855). First Edition [?]: G. Routledge & Co., 1855. Two volumes bound as one in late C19th red leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers. Leatherwork a little scuffed, boards grazed, otherwise good. Rose D'Albret: Sadleir [3755a]. "A Radcliffian romance of intrigue". (Historical Fiction). Historical novel, set in France in the 1590s. The Hidden Path: Topp [I, p. 62]. American ante-bellum novel, once dismissed as merely "plantation fiction". Probably the first English edition (although Sampson Low also published an edition in the same year)..
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- Bookseller
- Richard Beaton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RE2806
- Title
- Rose D'Albret. A Romance (1844 as Rose D'Albret; or Troubled Times. A Romance) & The Hidden Path (1855)
- Author
- Several Authors: G. P. R. James [George Payne Rainsford James] & Marion Harland [ie Mary Virginia Terhune]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Thomas Hodgson/G. Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Richard Beaton
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About the Seller
Richard Beaton
Biblio member since 2005
LEWES
About Richard Beaton
In addition to listing on bookselling websites, I issue quarterly catalogues, available free of charge on request. I offer a select stock of nineteenth and early twentieth century fiction -- novels, short story collections, literary journals, annuals etc, with a strong emphasis on lesser-known novelists.
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