A Group of Noble Dames
de Hardy, Thomas
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Sobre este artículo
London: Macmillan and Co. Fair with no dust jacket. 1894. Hardcover. Gutter's cracked exposing spine webbing. Ink stain and off-setting to front free endpaper. Ex-Library with library label pasted down on front paste down. Some staining to boards. 1/8" tears to cloth at head of spine. 1/4" tears to cloth at tail of spine. 1/4" tear to cloth along front spine joint. 1/8" loss of cloth to all corners of boards except bottom rear corner which has 1/2" loss of cloth. Binding shaky.; [6], 271 + 8 pages advertisements. Blue cloth boards. "Macmillan's Colonial Library."; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
Sinopsis
From the book:The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of any touch of nature as a table of logarithms. But given a clue - the faintest tradition of what went on behind the scenes, nd this dryness as of dust may be transformed into a palpitating drama. More, the careful comparison of dates alone - that of birth with marriage, of marriage with death, of one marriage, birth, or death with a kindred marriage, birth, or death - will often effect the same transformation, and anybody practised in raising images from such genealogies finds himself unconsciously filling into the framework the motives, passions, and personal qualities which would appear to be the single explanation possible of some extraordinary conjunction in times, events, and personages that occasionally marks these reticent family records. Out of such pedigrees and supplementary material most of the following stories have arisen and taken shape. I would make this preface an opportunity of expressing my sense of the courtesy and kindness of several bright-eyed Noble Dames yet in the flesh, who, since the first publication of these tales in periodicals, six or seven years ago, have given me interesting comments and conjectures on such of...
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Detalles
- Librería
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5736
- Título
- A Group of Noble Dames
- Autor
- Hardy, Thomas
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair with no dust jacket
- Editorial
- Macmillan and Co
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1894
Términos de venta
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Renaissance Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Tail
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- Cracked
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- 12mo
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