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The Wooden Horse
by Walpole, Hugh
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1929. Gilt title and monogram on blue leather boards (Macmillan Luxury Edition) which have fading to spine and wear to corner tips. Internally there is a decorative coloured bookplate to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. 319 pages. Silk page marker bound in. Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a prolific author of various genres and this, his first novel, was first published in 1909. It is the story of the Trojans, a family which believed that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand, with the democracy learned by working his hands, he was the 'wooden horse' who boldly carried into the 'Trojan' walls a lot of ideas that were completely alien to the family. 155. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010897
- Title
- The Wooden Horse
- Author
- Walpole, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- NEW ZEALAND,CORNWALL, TROJAN FAMILY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - English Authors Pre 1980;
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About the Seller
Goldring Books
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Eastbourne, East Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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