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The Last Recruit of Clare's. Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon, Chevalier of St. Louis, and Late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France (1897)
by Keightley, S. R. [Sir Samuel Robert Keightley]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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LEWES, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1897. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. Undated first edition [1897]. Frontispiece. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, with small nicks head/foot, a little foxing, good. Six linked stories of various lengths -- the first a brief eight pages, the last almost one hundred..
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- Bookseller
- Richard Beaton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RE2737
- Title
- The Last Recruit of Clare's. Being Passages from the Memoirs of Anthony Dillon, Chevalier of St. Louis, and Late Colonel of Clare's Regiment in the Service of France (1897)
- Author
- Keightley, S. R. [Sir Samuel Robert Keightley]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
Richard Beaton
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About the Seller
Richard Beaton
Biblio member since 2005
LEWES
About Richard Beaton
In addition to listing on bookselling websites, I issue quarterly catalogues, available free of charge on request. I offer a select stock of nineteenth and early twentieth century fiction -- novels, short story collections, literary journals, annuals etc, with a strong emphasis on lesser-known novelists.
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