The Golden Kingdom: Being an Account of the Quest for the Same as Described in the Narrative of Doctor Henry Mortimer, Contained in the Manuscript Found Within the Boards of a Boer Bible During the Late War, and Edited With a Prefatory Note
by Andrew Balfour
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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North Providence, Rhode Island, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
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About This Item
Boston: L. C. Page & Company. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover Green pictorial cloth with green lettering on the front board and white lettering on the spine, 424 pages plus 7 pages of ads [in two sections] at the rear, illustrated with two fold-out maps [one of which serves as a frontispiece]. Adventure novel set in Africa and involving lost race elements. Listed in the original 1948 Bleiler Checklist but not in the 1978 revised edition Checklist. Not in Locke, Reginald or Tuck. Good only copy with wear, rubbing and soiling to covers. hinges cracked, previous owner name an bookstore stamp to front endpapers, light soiling to a few pages of text. The 2 foldout maps are intact. Lacking jacket See photos. bx 7E,clph
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- Bookseller
- biblioboy (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 862451
- Title
- The Golden Kingdom
- Author
- Andrew Balfour
- Illustrator
- G. K. Green
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- L. C. Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1903
- Pages
- 424
- Size
- 8vo 8" - 9" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LOST, RACE, ADVENTURE, FICTION, AFRICA
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Lost Race;
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