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Rodney Stone
by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition, first impression (London: Smith Elder & Co, 1896) with advertisements to rear.
Quarter bound in brown leather with five raised bands, black labels and gilt lettering with marbled boards. A fine copy with just a touch of toning to edges.
Quarter bound in brown leather with five raised bands, black labels and gilt lettering with marbled boards. A fine copy with just a touch of toning to edges.
Synopsis
From the book:On this, the first of January of the year 1851, the nineteenth century has reached its midway term, and many of us who shared its youth have already warn-ings which tell us that it has outworn us. We put our grizzled heads together, we older ones, and we talk of the great days that we have known; but we find that when it is with our children that we talk it is a hard matter to make them understand. We and our fathers before us lived much the same life, but they with their railway trains and their steamboats belong to a diffe-rent age. It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man. They can learn how Freedom fled from the whole broad continent, and how Nelson's blood was shed, and Pitt's noble heart was broken in striving that she should not pass us for ever to take refuge with our brothers across the Atlantic. All this they can read, with the date of this treaty or that battle, but I do not know where they are to read of ourselves, of the folk we were, and the lives we led, and how the world seemed to our eyes when they were young as theirs are now.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Fine Book Cellar Ltd.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1476183138656
- Title
- Rodney Stone
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Quarter Bound in brown leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Smith Elder & Co
- Date Published
- 1896
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Arthur Conan Doyle, rodney Stone, First
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthur Conan Doyle;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Fine Book Cellar Ltd.
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Chelmsford, Essex
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- Fine
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