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Rodney Stone
de Arthur Conan Doyle
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- Librería
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: John Murray, 1918. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A popular Gothic novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, an exciting novel that centres around boxing. Illustrated with plates. 'Rodney Stone' is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel, an exciting adventure featuring cameos by various important historical figures, such as the Prince Regent and Lord Nelson.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates.Collated, complete.By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.One page of publisher's adverts to the front. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown.A new impression of this work. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with some light marks to the boards and spine, mostly to the front board. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities, bumping resulting in a small closed tear to the tail of the spine. Front hinge is starting but firm. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with some spots, mostly to the first and last few pages. Very Good
Sinopsis
From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them understand. We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a diffe-rent age. It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man. They can learn how Freedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelson's blood was shed, and Pitt's noble heart was broken in striving that she should not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across the Atlantic. All this they can read, with the date of this treaty or that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of ourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the world seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 769P9
- Título
- Rodney Stone
- Autor
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ilustrador
- Not Stated
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- John Murray
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1918
- Tamaño
- 7.5" by 5"
- Palabras clave
- Rodney Stone arthur conan doyle gothic mystery arthur conan doyle sussex sherlock holmes
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Rooke Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2007
BATH, Somerset
Sobre Rooke Books
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Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
