Rodney Stone.
by DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Murray. London. 1941. John Murray. 1941. Reprint. Hardback with DW. Ownership inscription scribbled out to front pastedown. Pages browned o/w a very good reading copy in wrapper that is very faded to spine and a little worn at extremities.
Synopsis
From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them understand. We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a diffe-rent age. It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man. They can learn how Freedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelson's blood was shed, and Pitt's noble heart was broken in striving that she should not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across the Atlantic. All this they can read, with the date of this treaty or that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of ourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the world seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16739
- Title
- Rodney Stone.
- Author
- DOYLE, Arthur Conan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- John Murray. London. 1941
- Keywords
- DETECTIVE FICTION biography
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About the Seller
Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
Glossary
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- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Reprint
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- Spine
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- Reading Copy
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