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F.M. Lupton Pub. Co, 1892. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Walter Scott, Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout and to hinges, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Book has noticeable forward lean.

The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier to front and rear free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen and pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to rear hinge, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Notable crushing to spine ends. Noticeable splits and fraying to corners and spine ends. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Dents to edges. Black marks all over.

London: A. & F. Denny, 1111. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Undated edition. Firmly bound, purple cloth boards. Scuffing and chipping on cover and spine. Foxing on closed page edges. No jacket.

Wildside Press, 2009. Paperback. New. 284 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.90 inches.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-01-17. Paperback. Good.

The Walter Scott Publishing Co, 1906T. hardcover. Good. 1.3386 7.3228 5.1969. Green cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt shows moderate wear and tear, rubbing and edgewear, rear joint is starting. Pages are tanned with scattered foxing.

Hardback. New.

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Hardback. New.

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Paperback / softback. New.

London: Walter Scott, Ltd, 1893. Cloth. Very Good. [1893?]. 8vo, pp. 284, [20 catalogue]; curiously, a number of gatherings secured by staples (rusty). Original purple cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, blind ruling to upper board. Spine cocked and sunned, bruising and wear to extremities. Foxing to front and rear, POI to ffep: "George S. Butler./ St. Andrew's Day. 1898," spine cracked twice between later gatherings, one loose, but binding remains firm. A robust copy of this early example of a successful literary spin-off. Very good Included by BL in its 'Doubtful and Supposititious Works' list, this is an early abridged translation into English of Paul Mahalin's popular Le Fils de Porthos, which was incorrectly attributed to Alexandre Dumas. Paul Mahalin (1828-1899) was a prolific French author and journalist, who contributed to Alexandre Dumas's newspaper Le Mousquetaire. As this title attests, however, he was also the author of numerous Dumasian spin-offs (and was not alone in… Read More