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Called Back.

by Conway (Hugh) (pseudonym of Frederick J. Fargus)

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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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Bookseller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop CA (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
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Litold;

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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

Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
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
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Shelf Wear
Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...

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