Author: BLACKMORE, R. D.
Title: Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (in Maroon Leatherette Covers, Everyman's Library #304)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1908]. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. An undated, likely first Everyman's Library edition, 1908, of R. D. Blackmore's famous historical romance, which is set in the 17th century and was first published in 1869. The author had trouble getting the novel published, but once available it became tremendously popular and has stayed in print ever since. Edited and with an introduction by Ernest Rhys. Entry 304 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With a partial split near the front of the book (which doesn't affect the overall soundness of the binding) and chafing to leather at spine ends, otherwise an attractive, tightly-bound, clean copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 571 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Title: Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (in Maroon Leatherette Covers, Everyman's Library #304)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, [c.1908]. First Edition Thus. Flexible Leatherette. An undated, likely first Everyman's Library edition, 1908, of R. D. Blackmore's famous historical romance, which is set in the 17th century and was first published in 1869. The author had trouble getting the novel published, but once available it became tremendously popular and has stayed in print ever since. Edited and with an introduction by Ernest Rhys. Entry 304 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's style 1 maroon flexible leatherette variant binding with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt titling & floral decorations to cover and spine, ornate Knowles woodcut illustrations to title and frontis pages and to endpapers, top edge gilt, fragile sewn-in silk ribbon placemarker and rounded corners. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- With a partial split near the front of the book (which doesn't affect the overall soundness of the binding) and chafing to leather at spine ends, otherwise an attractive, tightly-bound, clean copy.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xvi, 571 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Everyman's Library Editions
Price: US$ 18.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86597
- Book number: 86597