The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the life of an English Gentleman
by Hope, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good - Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1898. Book. Illus. by Gibson, Charles Dana. Good - Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. vii + 307 pp + iv adverts, previous owner's name and date (June 23, 1899) inked on ffep, 22 titled chapters, list of frontispiece and six illustrations, Binding tight with slight forward lean, fore-edge with slight uneven protrusions, fr cover gilt design & title VG, spine gilt faded - worn but legible (good only), G-VG brown cloth with faint wear at the edges all around, text block faintly age-toned. In glassine wrapper.
Synopsis
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The villainous Rupert of Hentzau gave his name to the sequel published in 1898, which is included in some editions of this novel.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007416
- Title
- The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the life of an English Gentleman
- Author
- Hope, Anthony
- Illustrator
- Gibson, Charles Dana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Keywords
- english language fiction circa 1900 - first edition classic title - Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins - British novelist and playright (1863-1933)
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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