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The Three Lieutenants; Or, Naval Life in the Nineteenth Century (Main character: Jack Rogers.)
by Kingston, W.H.G. (Main character: Rogers, Jack; Illustrations by D.H. Friston.)
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- Hardcover
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh [circa 1889]. (Hardcover) 463 + 16pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt, black and orange decoration to the cover and spine. All edges gilt, patterned endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, illustrations, decorations, advertisements. The spine is lightly bumped and worn and a previous owner's inscription on the back of the front free endpaper. "Really, Jack, that uniform is excessively becoming. Do oblige us by standing up as if you were on the quarter-deck of your ship and hailing the main-top. I do not remember ever having seen a naval officer above the rank of a midshipman in uniform efore. Do you, Lucy?" - from the text. Book about Naval Adventure Fiction & Soldiers. Time Period 19th Century. Illustrations by D.H. Friston. Main character: Rogers, Jack. (Juvenile, Fiction).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153910
- Title
- The Three Lieutenants; Or, Naval Life in the Nineteenth Century (Main character: Jack Rogers.)
- Author
- Kingston, W.H.G. (Main character: Rogers, Jack; Illustrations by D.H. Friston.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Juvenile, Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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