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Adventures of Gerard
de Doyle, A. Conan
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Librería
-
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London: George Newnes, Limited, 1903. Before Flashman, there was Gerard, Doyle's somewhat picaresque soldier of the Napoleonic Wars. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Dark blue cloth binding, titled and decorated in gilt. Clean text; 374 pages. Frontis illustration and fifteen others within. There is no publication date, but it is 1903. Mild rub to margins, very slight splay. A nice, solid copy. Lacking a dustwrapper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005372
- Título
- Adventures of Gerard
- Autor
- Doyle, A. Conan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good (Plus)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- George Newnes, Limited
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1903
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Literature;
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Quercus Rare Books
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Chico, California
Sobre Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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