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The Impregnable City: A Romance
by Pemberton, Max
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1898. Later printing. Hardcover. Good. 310pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Original bluish gray cloth over boards (heavily faded), with an ink stamped vignette on the front board (image still bright). The front free endpaper has an owner's name (twice), dated "1899," as well as a numerical ink stamp. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle, with his notes in pencil on the preliminary leaves. Bleiler CFL. Locke. An adventure involving a Utopian city in the Pacific. With six illustrations by Gordon Browne. Gordon Frederick Browne (1858-1932) was an illustrator of children's books in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55415
- Title
- The Impregnable City: A Romance
- Author
- Pemberton, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Cassell and Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- pbhs; lot 48; early science fiction; Utopia; Pacific; John Ruyle2; fancon
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...