London: Smith, Elder & Company. Fine with no dust jacket. 1897. Hardcover. A fine binding with three-quarter dark green leather and blue cloth boards, marbled endpapers. Gilt stamping to spine with five raised bands. Top edge gilt, frontis with tissue guard. Signed Bayntun-Riviere binding. With 8 pages of adverts. A handsome and seemingly unread copy. Additional photographs on request. ; MCF03632; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 300 pp .

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Bookseller: McCormick Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 31176
Title: Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire
Author: Doyle, A. Conan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine with no dust jacket
Publisher: Smith, Elder & Company
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1897
Keywords: Literature Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;

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