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Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
by Henty, G.A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
First American edition. Octavo. 12 b/w illustrations by Ralph Peacock. Original full green pictorial cloth, spine and upper covers stamped gilt, dark green, yellow and brown (slight rubbing), all edges dark green, purple endpapers. Very good. 383 pages + 16 pages publisher's catalog at end. Pencil signature of Archie Reid, Oct. 5, 1894 on the page before half title. Printed by the Norwood Press, Boston. Notable for the illustrations of Peacock (1868-1946), famous English portrait and landscape painter, winner of the Creswick prize. Osborne Collection I, p. 356; Houfe, p. 412.
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- Bookseller
- Houle Rare Books & Autographs
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3452
- Title
- Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
- Author
- Henty, G.A
- Illustrator
- Ralph Peacock
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Pages
- 383
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Gilt
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- Half Title
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- Cloth
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