New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1895. Uncommonly nice copy. Condition would be FINE but for a touch of rubbing to the edges. Clean, square, tight, & unmarked. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name. Very attractive book by the author of LORNA DOONE. First US edition and according to bibliographer Robert Lee Wolff it is "quite possibly the first." Contains four stories: Slain by the Doones; Frida or, The Lover's Leap; George Bowring; Crocker's Hole. These same stories were published in London under the title, Tales from the Telling House (1896, Sampson Low). Beautiful cover design (artist unidentified), in brown and black motted cloth, blocked in green, gold, and black. The front cover features a sword, gun, and club tied together, surrounded by a profusion of green oak leaves and scrolls that say in Gothic type, "If any man asketh who killed thee, say 'twas the Doones of Badgery." On the spine, the words "The Doones of Badgery" appear with similar scrolls. Wolff says this US edition's sheets are same as the English, but with narrower margins and bound in an American case. Original decorated cloth Top edge gilt. Pictorial title, printed in red and black, inserted. Gilt lettering and designs on spine and cover are still remarkably bright and fresh. Wolff 542b. See also Sadleir 233. . First US edition & possibly 1st overall. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 244pp.

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Bookseller: About Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 013424
Title: Slain by the Doones and Other Stories
Author: Blackmore, R. D
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine condition
Jacket Condition: No jacket
Edition: First US edition & possibly 1st overall
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1895
Size: 244pp

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