The Barbarian and Other Stories.
by Mendum (Bedloe)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
cat40a. NY & London: Neely, (1899). First edition. Patterned wrappers designed and lettered in black Corners of wrappers chipped, spine faced with tissue paper (perhaps to reattach covers), old stain in the margin of a few leaves; a very good copy otherwise. Also issued in cloth. This was number 5 in the Neely's Booklet Library series. A curious collection of short stories; the title story is a satirical utopian tale set in an imaginary country.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52895
- Title
- The Barbarian and Other Stories.
- Author
- Mendum (Bedloe)
- Illustrator
- cat40a
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Bookseller catalogs
- SFcat;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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