Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
by Blackmore, R. D
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1943. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering and brown decoration on spine. Illustrated with color plates and B&W drawings by John Austen. . Spine is slightly sunned, front cover has a few faint, stray marks, else tight, square and clean. In very good slipcase which has light dust soiling on top and bottom edges, some faint finger smudges and one small split. VERY GOOD+.. Color Plates and B&W Illustrations. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xv, 549 pp .
Synopsis
Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17010
- Title
- Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
- Author
- Blackmore, R. D
- Illustrator
- John Austen
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Fiction;, Literature;, Novels;, Romance;, Heritage Press;, Private Press;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Good+
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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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....