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Preston-Speed Publications, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908 BEAUTIFUL BOOK IN VERY GOOD SHAPE. LIGHT BROWN WITH BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, NICE DESIGNS FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS LABEL IN FRONT, SMALL STICKER FRONT FROM JC PENNEY CO. WONDERFUL ART, FRONTISPIECE TIGER AND MAN FIGHTING. 7 OTHER ART PICTURES THROUGHOUT. George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 ¿ 16 November 1902), was a prolific English novelist and a special correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century.The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement was a violent anti-foreign and anti-Christian movement which took place in China towards the end of the Qing dynasty between 1898 and 1900. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Blackie, 1/1/1904. Hardcover. Good. Scribner's, 1904. 1st edition. 384, 32 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 20 cm. Bound in publisher's handsome pictorial cloth. Shelf wear. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. In original publisher's binding: green cloth over boards with bevel edges. Illustrations of a Chinese man holding a pistol on upper board and a Chinese man with a rifle on his shoulder on spine, in orange, black, and tan. George Alfred Henty was a prolific English Victorian novelist and war correspondent (1832-1902). Henty volunteered for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was with a well traveled war correspondent, following the Austro-Italian war of 1866, accompanying Garibaldi at Tirolese. Also he journeyed with Lord Napier through Magdala and Lord Wolseley to Kumassi. He was at the opening of the Suez Canal. He reported the Franco-German War, starved in the the siege of the Paris Commune, and then went to cover the Carlist… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First American Edition . Hardcover. [x], 353 pp + 29 pp. publisher's catalogue. Dark green cloth, stamped in black, red and gold on illustrated spine and front board, all edges green. With 8 plates including frontispiece by Wal Paget and full page map. Very Good.

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding. Record # 378424

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. A green cloth octavo with pictorial cover and lettering inorange and white. 353 pages plus extensive publishers catalog in back. Illustrated by Wal Paget. A clean copy, nearly unworn but with several places on the covers and spine with flecking and color loss. Definitely noticeable but still a respectable copy. Scattered faint foxing to endleaves otherwise clean and bright internally.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. Illustrated by Wal Paget. First American edition. Front hinge cracked but holding. bound in dark green cloth printed in red and black with lettering in gilt.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. First edition. Illustrated by Wal Paget. 1 vols. 8vo. Green gilt pictorial cloth. Signature. Edges just a little rubbed, spot on front cover, else fine. First edition. Illustrated by Wal Paget. 1 vols. 8vo.