The Petrified Eye and other Naval Stories. As originally Told to the Marines by one of themselves
by Drury, W.P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Naas, Kildare, Ireland
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About This Item
High Street, Portsmouth: Charpentier & Co., 1896. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. pp. 190. Some copies were published with a Frontis some not, this copy does not have one, and no evidence of ever having one. Original purple cloth, gilt lettering to front board, fade to the spine and edges, name to inner front board, else internally clean. Rare collection of weird and supernatural stories. .
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- Bookseller
- Kelleher Rare Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016015
- Title
- The Petrified Eye and other Naval Stories. As originally Told to the Marines by one of themselves
- Author
- Drury, W.P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Charpentier & Co.
- Place of Publication
- High Street, Portsmouth
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- FIRST EDITION,Drury, W.P.,The Petrified Eye and other Naval Stories. As originally Told to the Marines by one of themselves
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