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The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters
by [WOMEN'S FICTION] SANGSTER, Rena Urania Nott
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Buffalo: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1909. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Original green cloth boards stamped in gilt on front cover; 150pp; frontis. portr. Sight rubbing to cloth on spine, endpapers darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Elaborate presentation inscription on front free endpaper to "Sister Leonard" from eleven fellow members of Myrtle Rebekah Lodge #84 [Lockport, NY], dated 1917. A romance of New York and London. Urania Nott Sangster, a native of Buffalo, New York, was the sister of noted American pictorialist painter Amos W. Sangster. She authored a number of volumes of poetry and fiction as well as several patriotic and temperance tracts. This title not in Smith.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14603
- Title
- The Power of Gold: A Romance of London, England in Seven Chapters
- Author
- [WOMEN'S FICTION] SANGSTER, Rena Urania Nott
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Matthews-Northrup Works
- Place of Publication
- Buffalo
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; Women; Temperance;
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- Fine
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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