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Adventures of Gerard
de Arthur Conan Doyle
- Usado
- Bien
- Estado
- Bien/No jacket
- Librería
-
Berkeley, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
George Newnes, 1903. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. Book is wrapped in a protective plastic sleeve. Cover is lightly worn, particularly along corners and edges. Spine is bumped and cracked, but binding is secure. Text block is slightly foxed and pages are tanned, not affecting legibility of text. Pencil writing on title page, does not affect legibility. Small tear near bottom edge of frontispiece. Pages are otherwise unmarked.
Sinopsis
From the book:I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow. The age was rich in military material, some of it the most human and the most picturesque that I have ever read. Setting aside historical works or the biograp-hies of the leaders there is a mass of evidence written by the actual fighting men themselves, which describes their feelings and their experiences, stated always from the point of view of the particular branch of the service to which they belonged. The Cavalry were particularly happy in their writers of memoirs. Thus De Rocca in his "Memoires sur la guerre des Francais en Espagne" has given the narrative of a Hussar, while De Naylies in his "Memoires sur la guerre d'Espagne" gives the same campaigns from the point of view of the Dragoon. Then we have the "Souvenirs Militaires du Colonel de Gonneville," which treats a series of wars, including that of Spain,
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Detalles
- Librería
- Moe's Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1143803
- Título
- Adventures of Gerard
- Autor
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hard cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No jacket
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- George Newnes
- Fecha de publicación
- 1903
- Palabras clave
- Lyle
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
