THE WHITE COMPANY
by A Conan Doyle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Spine colour faded; dumped corners; endpapers discoloured; all pages have brown at all edges; extensive pencil underlining and m
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
George Newnes Limited, London undated Hardcover, 8½" x 5¾" (no jacket issued) Spine colour faded; dumped corners; endpapers discoloured; all pages have brown at all edges; extensive pencil underlining and marginal notations. Book in FAIR condition Red cloth-bound boards with black type to spine and front cover, Fry's Cocoa advertisement on verso title page, all text set as two columns to a page. This Arthur Conan Doyle historical romance was first published in 1891 (Dr Watson isn't mentioned!). A previous owner has very carefully analysed this book and written a chapter-by-chapter (38 chapters) summary in pen on front endpapers and verso ffep, before assessing Conan Doyle in pencil (ie "Very accurate in historical detail. Characterisation very good. Style of language - good, graphic, simple - not perhaps so good as RLS. Simple plot - not complex but serviceable for the style of novel he writes".) Similarly the rear endpapers are covered with evaluations of the major characters.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31764
- Title
- THE WHITE COMPANY
- Author
- A Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 8½" x 5¾" (no jacket issued)
- Book Condition
- Used - Spine colour faded; dumped corners; endpapers discoloured; all pages have brown at all edges; extensive pencil underlining and m
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Newnes Limited, London
- Date Published
- undated
- Pages
- 222 pages
- Keywords
- Historical Romance A Conan Doyle The White Company
Terms of Sale
Pegasus Book Orphanage
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
Biblio member since 2016
McCrae, Victoria
About Pegasus Book Orphanage
On-line bookstore operating for 20+ years.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....