The Last Days of Pompeii
by BULWER-LYTTON, Sir Edward G. E
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: International Collectors Library. Good+ with no dust jacket. [c.1950s-60s]. Hardcover. A reprint edition of the famed historical novel set in Pompeii at the base of Vesuvius. First published in 1834. Publisher's flyer specific to this work laid in. --- This volume is made to simulate a book with leatherbound qualities, with gilt stamped decorations and titling on full dark green paper-covered boards and satin bookmark ribbon. Lacks a dust jacket. Volume bears 1946 date, but likely published c.1950s-60s. --- Outer paper covering is brittle and has a nick to top of spine, crack to covering at rear joint and prior owner's signature and notation to verso of front free endpaper; else a sound, intact copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (10), 356 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80986
- Title
- The Last Days of Pompeii
- Author
- BULWER-LYTTON, Sir Edward G. E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- International Collectors Library
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- [c.1950s-60s]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>European History;
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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