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The Walking Doll; or, The Asters and Disasters of Society.
by Newell (R.H.) [Orpheus C. Kerr]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
NY: Felt, 1872. First edition. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Brown coated end papers. One leaf of ads at rear. Modest shelf wear, some spotting of cloth, a couple of stains to two leaves (194 & 390), end papers a bit discolored; a solid very good copy in general. The author's name on the binding is given as "Orpheus C. Kerr", (under which name most of his works were published), and the facsimile signature of that name is on the front cover. An uncommon title by Newell, who in 1870 published "The Cloven Foot" - an American version of Dickens' EDWIN DROOD. Wright II: 1789. "The Walking Doll" looks to be an outlandish satirical work, which, in the words of the author: "shall possess and rival all the worst beauties of Dickens, Reade, Wilkie Collins, Thackeray, and Miss Braddon."
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53963
- Title
- The Walking Doll; or, The Asters and Disasters of Society.
- Author
- Newell (R.H.) [Orpheus C. Kerr]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Bookseller catalogs
- Litold;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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