A Saga of the Sword
by Austin, F. Britten
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/VG
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1929. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine/VG. Red cloth, title stamped in black on front panel and spine, with embossed caveman warrior on the front panel. A series of fictional stories based on warfare in myth and history from the earliest days of mankind to tank warfare in 1916. Stories of Gilgamesh, Alexander the Great, Hannibal and the fall of Carthage, the rise of Arab and Turkish empires, the Crusades, Napoleon, the saga ending with the first World War. Austin wrote a similar collection of historical fiction with a nautical theme: A Saga of the Sea. Fine in scarce dust jacket, with promotional publisher's bookmark, including this title, laid in. In the original dust jacket, price-clipped else VG
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05677
- Title
- A Saga of the Sword
- Author
- Austin, F. Britten
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- World War I Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Science Fiction & Fantasy;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lippincott Books
Biblio member since 2009
Hampden, Maine
About Lippincott Books
We invite you to browse through the approximately 1800 books we have listed online on a wide variety of subjects, including strong holdings in Maine history and literature, lumbering, the North Woods of Maine, and Eastern Woodland Indians. We've been in business since 1975, over 25 years with a general antiquarian bookshop in Bangor.We are open by appointment; most of our stock of over 20,000 old and rare books have never been listed online, including a large selection of books on Maine and the Maine Woods. We are regularly adding to our inventory with new acquisitions.
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