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The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician by ARNOLD Edwin Lester
New edition
London: Chatto & Windus, 1893 Fascinating fantasy novel about an immortal man's reincarnation in Britain thru the Celts to Roman Britain on thru and past 'King Alfred' and the Vikings and his multiple reincarnations. Blue cloth gilt design of fetaher fan and title to cover gilt dulled, decorative gilt spine also dulled, joints rubbed, spine ends frayed, corner bruised, front hinge cracked and loosened, old pencil to fep frontis with tissue guard and 9 plates by H M Paget. intro by Sir Edwin Arnold, authors father. viii, 347 +32 pp catalogue at rear, signatures loosening, fore edge untrimmed, some age browning and soiling to pages. Scarce work said to have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs in his youth and cited as a source for the John Carter tales ( QV Lupoff; Edgar Rice Burroughs Master of Adventure). Two leaves have corners torn off, loss of text to one leaf only though. . New edition. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
- Bookseller: Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 000799
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Book condition: Good
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Edition: New edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus
- Place: London
- Date published: 1893
- Keywords: edwin arnold edgar rice burroughs tarzan john carter
- Subjects:
FICTION / Science Fiction / General;
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