The Strand Magazine Vol. XVI : July 1898 to December 1898
by Edited By George Newnes
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good + (AVERAGE)/No Jacket
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Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Newnes Limited, 1898. Bumped corners, Foxing, Missing front end paper and half of rear end paper, stain on back board. This volumes contents include a featured article on "The Boyhood of Lewis Carroll" who had died earlier on in this year. It deals with his early work, before he became famous for writing " Alice in Wonderland", and is illustrated with a number of his original manuscripts and drawings, short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle,MISSING Pages 491 - 494 a story by the Invisible man author H G Wells titled Mr Leadbetter's Vacation and E E Hornung (Famous for his Raffles stories) writes The Larrakin of Diamond Creek and numerous other authors including W W Jacobs L T Meade......Binding is the Original BLUE cloth with gilt decorations..NO EXTRA POSTAGE ABOVE OUR STANDARD RATES FOR UK CUSTOMERS. Not Signed or Inscribed. First Edition. Original Blue Cloth . Very Good + (AVERAGE)/No Jacket. Illus. by Various Cartoons & Adverts. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". HARDBACK.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 556940
- Title
- The Strand Magazine Vol. XVI : July 1898 to December 1898
- Author
- Edited By George Newnes
- Illustrator
- Various Cartoons & Adverts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good + (AVERAGE)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George Newnes Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Comedy; Cartoons; Naturalist; Maritime; Gardening; Military; Mathematics; Biograhical; Biography; Medical;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
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