With Fire and Sword
by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Very Good
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hippocrene Books, 1991. 1135pp. Brown cloth boards, titles on spine in gold. Binding tight, spine straight, corners square. Pages clean and unmarked. Title page missing, Acknowledgements page loose. Jacket bright and crisp, not price clipped. . First Edition. Fair/Very Good. 8vo.
Synopsis
With Fire and Sword is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as the Trilogy, followed by The Deluge (Potop, 1886) and Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1888), also translated as Colonel Wolodyjowski. The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031919
- Title
- With Fire and Sword
- Author
- Sienkiewicz, Henryk
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hippocrene Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Henryk Sienkiewicz, With Fire and Sword, James Michener, 17th Century History, European History
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About the Seller
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About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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- Tight
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- Crisp
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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