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Robe of Honour
by Alexander Cordell
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good+
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Ex-library. Black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Ffep is stamped ''withdrawn'' and has the name of a previous owner. Name of library rubber stamped on title page. Rear free endpaper is damaged from removal of library pocket. Aside from these noted flaws, this is a rather clean copy. No call numbers. 384 pages. Dust jacket shows very slight wear; not price clipped ($4.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. The second book in Cordell's Mortymer trilogy, set in Wales during the period of the Rebecca Riots [1839-1843], when local farmers violently reacted against the taxation scheme, dressed up as women, blacked their faces, and rode by night to burn the hated tollgates. The British edition was titled Hosts of Rebecca.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014184
- Title
- Robe of Honour
- Author
- Alexander Cordell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1960
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, Wales, Rebecca Riots, Mortymer trilogy, Robe of Honor,
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Boyd Used & Rare Books
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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