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The Queen's House
by Alldridge, Lizzie
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- fine
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. First Edition. cloth. fine. 3 vols. 1st edition. Publisher's cloth, fine condition, a paragon of beauty and preservation. Rare. No sales at auction in 50 years though copies may well have been sold lotted with other books and therefore not recorded in RBH's auction records. However, only 9 sets have been located by OCLC and COPAC in national, and university libraries around the world, and these global library cooperatives deliver a more reliable census for raw numbers, but can be misleading in their own way because they include the imperfect, the defective, the misdescribed, the repaired, the rebound, the abused, the broken, the now lost, the ugly, the spectral, and the forsaken. The title is taken from the old name of the Lieutenant's lodgings in the Tower of London, and the Tower itself is a presence in (almost a character in) the tale of a young woman, bookish and antiquarian, who choses wrongly in a man, and learns that love won't die of starvation, and can barely be killed by indigestion.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38
- Title
- The Queen's House
- Author
- Alldridge, Lizzie
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1886
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About the Seller
Biblioctopus
Biblio member since 2017
Century City, California
About Biblioctopus
Biblioctopus sells first editions of the classics of fiction, high spots in history, science, and historical ephemera
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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