Beau Brocade: A Romance
by Baroness Orczy
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Ryde, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Greening & Co. Ltd., 1909. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. frontispiece by H.M. Brock. Loosely bound with front inner hinge cracked. Decorated orange boards. Scuffing, fading and dust spotting on cover and spine. Chipping on the ends of spine. Pages are tanned. Name of former owner inside. No jacket. Popular Edition, reading copy only.
Synopsis
Baroness Orczy wrote the novel Beau Brocade in 1907, and followed it up with the play of the same name in 1908. It was adapted as a silent film in 1916. The Ballad of Beau Brocade, was an 1892 poem by English Poet Henry Austin Dobson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ryde Bookshop Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051768
- Title
- Beau Brocade: A Romance
- Author
- Baroness Orczy
- Illustrator
- frontispiece by H.M. Brock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Greening & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Pages
- 307
- Keywords
- novel
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Ryde Bookshop Limited
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Ryde Bookshop Limited
Biblio member since 2021
Ryde, Isle of Wight
About Ryde Bookshop Limited
Traditional bookshop, established since 1988, open from 9 am to 5 pm, seven days a week including bank holidays, over 100,000 books in ten rooms.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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