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Yule-Tide Yarns
by Henty, G. A. -- Editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co, London and Bombay, 1899. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. list of illustrations. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece. The text is illustrated with numerous black-and-white illustrations and part page illustrations by various illustrators including -- Gordon Browne, J. B. Greene, R. Wheelwright and Launcelot Speed. Illustrated covers, showing a heraldic shield with a suit of armour's head piece in the middle of the shield, with crossed halberds at the back of the shield against a tan coloured cloth board with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. A series of 10 short stories by late 19th-century authors, including G.A. Henty, George Manville Fenn, Harry Collingwood and W. C. Whistler, written for the young adolescent reader with lots of derring-do. Part of the Longmans' Colonial Library series. Bumping, rubbing and fraying to the backstrip edges and book corners. There has been flecking, rubbing and some staining to the cloth of the boards. There is a small hole to the front spine gutter edge 2" down from the top edge. Browning and some foxing to the text block edges and to the endpapers and internal text. On the front paste-down is a handwritten "prize plate" dated Christmas 1903. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 370 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Fiction -- Adolescent; Illustrated; 19th Century; Fiction -- Adventure. Inventory No: 0108590. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0108590
- Title
- Yule-Tide Yarns
- Author
- Henty, G. A. -- Editor
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co
- Place of Publication
- London and Bombay
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Short Stories -- Christmas -- 19th Century -- Adolescent, Longmans' Colonial Library -- Series Literature & Literary; Fiction -- Adolescent; Illustrated; 19th Century; Fiction -- Adventure. Various Unbranded Henty, G. A. -- Editor Yule-Tid
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction -- Adolescent; Illustrated; 19th Century; Fiction -- Adventure;
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About the Seller
Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
Biblio member since 2005
melbourne, Victoria
About Syber's Books ABN 40533682787
General secondhand dealers, with 3 cats.We have two shops, 227 Glenferrie Rd Malvern 3144, Victoria 03 9530 2222 ( open 7 days Midday 'til 5.30 PM)And the other at 666 Glen Huntly Road Caulfield South 03 9523 666 open 11:00 am - 5.00 pm-ish the other 6 days. We seem to specialize in non mainstream stuff but read and stock Science-fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, history, biography and true crime, war, natural history. cooking, children's books and try to avoid current text books.We probably have the largest collection of Science Fiction, Penguins and general crime in Victoria in an open shop ( David has 8 bookcases 900mm x 2200mm of sf and f) ( Penny has 8 bookcases 1200mm x 2400 of sf and f )On shelf each shop has 30,000 plus books and we list over 30000 books online
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