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Prester John
by Buchan, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin and Co.: Boston and New York, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Henry Pitz. Octavo. 272 pages. Hardcover in tan cloth with a color pictorial pastedown on the front cover. The binding is rubbed and worn and has soiling from handling, and soiling or foxing along the hinges. The fore-edge of the text block and the endpapers are foxed. The text is toned. The pages facing the illustrations and the illustrations themselves have considerable foxing. Collates complete with 6 color plates (including the frontis) as well as a black and white map. An adventure novel by this Scottish novelist set in South Africa. The hero (from Scotland) goes to South Africa for work and stumbles upon an uprising led by a local minister / revolutionary who has claims to the legendary Prester John (a king / priest of a Christian nation in a faraway land in the 12th century). Hidden treasure is also involved. This story is set in modern (early 20th century) times.
Synopsis
I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it, a terror which was surely more than the due of a few truant lads breaking the Sabbath with their play.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051394
- Title
- Prester John
- Author
- Buchan, John
- Illustrator
- Henry Pitz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Boston and New York
- Place of Publication
- Houghton Mifflin and Co.
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1938; John Buchan; Henry Pitz; Novel; Fiction; South Africa; Adventure; llustrated.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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