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The True Story Book
by Lang, Andrew (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co.,. Hardback. xv,337(2)pp. Blue cloth heavily illustrated in gilt to front with a sailing ship scene and further illustrated to the spine. Illustrated by L. Boggle, Lucien Davies, H. J. Ford, C. H. M. Kerr and Lancelot Speed. Black and white frontis with tissue guard. Illustrated title page, plus many more. The true stories include that of Grace Darling who helped her lighthouse keeper father rescue shipwreck survivors, the Venetian Casanova de Seingalt's (Giacomo Casanova) escape from the inquisition, the stories of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Kaspar Hauser, Montezuma, Thermopylae, and The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift is by Rider Haggard, etc. 4th impression. Blue cloth is very clean and the gilt decoration are bright. Somewhat rubbed to corners and spine ends. Faint toning and foxing to margins of text and some plates., Partial removed prize plate to front endpaper. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Hardback. 1900.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22005
- Title
- The True Story Book
- Author
- Lang, Andrew (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.,
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Andrew Lang,Antiquarian Children's Books,Children's Non-Fiction,, Children's literature,Rider Haggard,Grace Darling,Rorke's Drift,, Thermopylae,Aztecs,L. Boggle,Lucien Davies,H. J. Ford,C. H. M. Kerr,, Lancelot Speed,Rider Haggard,Bonnie P
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
We are a member of the PBFA and ibooknet -www.ibooknet.co.uk Our specialisms are academic books particularly literary criticism, literary biography, literary texts and literary and critical theory, history, plus some philosophy, psychology, politics and religion. We also stock local history books, mainly on Yorkshire. We also stock children's literature. We have a small general stock in the wider academic arts and humanities.
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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