Called Back.
by Conway (Hugh) (pseudonym of Frederick J. Fargus)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
NY: William L. Allison Company, [ca.1890). Blue decorative cloth, front cover crest in black with the legend: Arundel Edition; spine designed and lettered in gilt and black. Paper browned, light shelf wear, quite a nice copy. First published in England as an Arrowsmith's Christmas Annual in 1883. CALLED BACK was a best-selling book in Britain, and established the pattern for the "Shilling Shockers" which were to become so prevalent.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50784
- Title
- Called Back.
- Author
- Conway (Hugh) (pseudonym of Frederick J. Fargus)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- NY: William L. Allison Company, [ca.1890)
- Keywords
- victorian literature british fiction potboiler shilling shocker
- Bookseller catalogs
- Litold;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Prices are in US Dollars. Books are guaranteed to be as described. Books may be returned within a reasonable length of time. Paypal Payments are made to: bill@rainbownorth.com
About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
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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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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