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WESTWARD HO! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight Burrough, in the Country of Devon - In the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
by Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684194449
- ISBN 13
- 9780684194448
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. N.C. Wyeth. Reprint, 1992. Near Fine. 8vo., 413 pp., with full color glossy images by Wyeth. Bound in publishers brown cloth with title in gilt, full color dust jacket. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed, small line of extra glue on front end paper, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Westward Ho! is an 1855 historical novel written by British author Charles Kingsley. The novel was based on the experiences of Elizabethan privateer Amyas Preston (Amyas Leigh in the novel), who sets sail with Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh and other privateers to the New World, namely the Preston Somers Expedition and Raleigh's El Dorado Expedition where they battle with the Spanish.
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- Frey Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27288
- Title
- WESTWARD HO! or, the Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight Burrough, in the Country of Devon - In the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth
- Author
- Kingsley, Charles. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
- Illustrator
- N.C. Wyeth
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684194449
- ISBN 13
- 9780684194448
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1992
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Rougemont, North Carolina
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- Fine
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- Reprint
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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