Old Mortality: Waverley Novels Border Edition
by Walter Scott
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good-fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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ORMOND, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: John C. Nimmo, 1898. Dark Green boards with gilt typography on cover and spine. Edge wear to boards, especially to bottom front and back where there is a little buckling. Some tiny white spots on front boards. Previous owner's signature. Rough cut page edges. Foxing to page edges. First page after endpaper seems like it has been cut out.. Hard Cover - Cloth. Good-fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679-89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels. It was originally titled The Tale of Old Mortality, but is generally shortened in most references.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sindbad Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000764
- Title
- Old Mortality: Waverley Novels Border Edition
- Author
- Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good-fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John C. Nimmo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Collectable; Old Books;
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