The Great War Syndicate
by Stockton, Frank R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: P. F. Collier. Good with no dust jacket. 1889. First American Edition. Hardcover. New York: P. F. Collier, 1889. First U. S. Edition. 111pp. Text block measures 7" x 4 5/8". Issued in wrappers, this copy rebound in quarter black calf & marbled boards, dense pattern endpapers. Spine and board edges moderately worn, few brief chips to edge of front end leaf; text block lightly, evenly toned. Engraved portrait of Stockton, 12 illustrations. Fictional account of naval warfare in the late 19th century between the United States and Britain. BAL 18895. Bleiler Checklist p.187. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale A. Sorenson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13471
- Title
- The Great War Syndicate
- Author
- Stockton, Frank R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- P. F. Collier
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- Americana, Fiction, Great Britain, American Literature
Terms of Sale
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Dale A. Sorenson
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- BAL
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- Edges
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- Calf
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- Spine
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Wrappers
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- Jacket
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