The Crown Of Wild Olive: Four Lectures on Industry and War
by Ruskin, John
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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George Allen, 1899. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1899 George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington. "Twenty-Ninth Thousand" impression. Hardcover has olive green cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Top edges gilt. Covers have blind-stamped ruled borders. Deckle fore-edges and bottom edges. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Front hinge partially cracked, but still strong. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. A one-quarter-inch square piece is missing from the head of the spine. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Spine leans a little. Name in ink on blank page after front free endpaper, dated 1899. A few pages have a small brown spot in the margin. Small faint number in blue ink at bottom of last page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. 276 pages. "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. at the Ballantyne Press". No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Contents: Lecture I: Work - Lecture II: Traffic - Lecture III: War - Lecture IV: The Future of England - Appendix: Notes on the Economies of the Kings of Prussia.
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- Title
- The Crown Of Wild Olive: Four Lectures on Industry and War
- Author
- Ruskin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- George Allen
- Date Published
- 1899
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