The Hill by Horace A. Vachell - 1906-01-01

London: John Murray, 1937. Small octavo, pp (2), 241, a little used internally, blue cloth slightly worn, the spine faded, the dustwrapper is a little worn and creased, with a faded spine.. Cloth. Good/Slightly worn and creased.

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New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1937. The Hill was first published in 1905. One of more than 50 novels written by its author, it depicts the friendship between two boys who attend Harrow. (Harrow School, founded in 1572 is a highly prestigious boys boarding school in London, still going strong today.) 8vo size green cloth cover with navy blue titles on spine and navy blue titles and decorations on front cover. The cover appears to be an incomplete printing of the design that appeared on other books: Darker colored cloth books of the earlier 1900s (dark blue or black) had a illustration on the front cover of a hilly skyline with a tall building spire - which depicts the campus of Harrow School. This silhouette is made from the color of the clothbound book. The illustration on top of that is completed by two different colors on ink in green and white. In this book, a later edition, the cloth binding appears to be a shade of green represented by the color of the ink in the earlier version. You… Read More