BEYOND THE CITY
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oneonta, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Street & Smith, 1920. This vintage novel by "Sherlock Holmes" author A. Conan Doyle is bound in brown cloth boards, with gilt spine lettering. Typical ex-lib. markings; most inner pages clean, pages lightly browned at edges. No date of publication; believed circa 1920. 180 pages; approx. 5"x7".. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.
Synopsis
From the book:If you please, mum, said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door, "number three is moving in. Two little old ladies, who were sitting at either side of a table, sprang to their feet with ejaculations of interest, and rushed to the window of the sitting-room. "Take care, Monica dear," said one, shrouding herself in the lace curtain; "don't let them see us. "No, no, Bertha. We must not give them reason to say that their neighbors are inquisitive. But I think that we are safe if we stand like this." The open window looked out upon a sloping lawn, well trimmed and pleasant, with fuzzy rosebushes and a star-shaped bed of sweet-william. It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad, modern, new metaled road. At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers. All three were equally new, but numbers one and two were curtained and sedate, with a human, sociable look to them; while number three, with yawning door and unkempt garden, had apparently only just received its furniture and made itself ready for its occupants. A four-wheeler had driven up to the gate, and it was at this that the old ladies, peeping out bird-like from behind their curtains, directed an eager and questioning gaze.
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Details
- Seller
- Popeks Books, IOBA
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 200933
- Title
- BEYOND THE CITY
- Author
- Doyle, Arthur Conan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Ex-Library
- Publisher
- Street & Smith
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- FICTION VINTAGE
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Popeks Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Oneonta, New York
About Popeks Books, IOBA
Store located at 356 Main Street in Otego, NY
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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