Una and the Lions. A Novel.
by Smedlay (Constance) [Mrs Maxwell Armfield]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. First edition.. Blue cloth designed and lettered in gilt. Title page printed in black and red. Front end paper/fly leaf removed, cut in title page along gutter but still attached, spine a bit sunned, a clean very good copy. 4pp. of ads at rear, as well as a 32-page publisher's catalogue dated October, 1913. A very uncommon novel by Mrs. Maxwell Armfield, which concerns a young English's girl's time in Florence.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55465
- Title
- Una and the Lions. A Novel.
- Author
- Smedlay (Constance) [Mrs Maxwell Armfield]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. First edition.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Litold;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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