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The Camera Fiend
by Hornung, E W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Leicester, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Fisher Unwin, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. (London: T. Fisher Unwin 1911). First UK Edition. First UK Edition. Publisher's decorated green cloth front panel stamped in white, stamped in gold to the spine. Slightly soft spine tips, chipping to the fore-edge of pages 59 through 70, and offsetting to the end-papers. Boards a little rubbed. With six illustrations by H. W. Koekkoek. A VG copy. "The story of an intrepid 16-year old held in the clutches of a mad scientist whose particular mania was with spiritualist photography, specifically the quest to capture the soul at the moment it left a dying man's body...I couldn't help noting that the mad scientist was a German (Dr. Baumgartner) who had served in the Franco-Prussian war and wondered if this might not reflect the paranoia of the day as the outbreak of World War I loomed ever closer" (GoodReads). Photographs/scans available upon request.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355490723552
- Title
- The Camera Fiend
- Author
- Hornung, E W
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
Terms of Sale
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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About the Seller
James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
Biblio member since 2006
Leicester
About James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
James M Pickard (Rare Books) is proud to be a full member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) and The Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA).
Glossary
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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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...