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Rabble in Arms
by Roberts, Kenneth
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1933. 1937 reprint. Very good+ in dark blue cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and with a bright gilt decoration on the front board. A small octavo of 7 1/2 by 5 1/8 inches with several short closed tear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and foxing to the rear end sheets a result of the reaction to the glues used in binding. Without its issued dust jacket. An exceptionally scarce title to come by in first edition as only 5,000 copies were produced in the first printing. 870 pages. The sequel of Roberts' Arundel which picks up after Arnold's attack on Quebec and follows the sequence of events as the ragged army retreats down the St. Laawrence River to Lake Champlain. Roberts' was one of the first novelists to give credible exposure to the Battle of Valcor Island which, although a loss for the Americans, slowed the British advance down Lake Champlain to connect with the Hudson enough so that they had to return to Canada for the winter of 1776. This ultimately lead to the victory at Saratoga the following year. A bright fresh copy of one of Roberts' most significant historical fiction novels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32155
- Title
- Rabble in Arms
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1937 reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1933
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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