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Jack Harkaway on the Prairie
by (Boys' Adventure) Hemyng, Bracebridge
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Later maroon morocco cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light stain to front cover, previous owner's stamp to ffep, contents fine
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Hogarth House, 1890. First edition, bound from 10 parts. 9 wood-engraved plates; [ii], 100 pp., text in double columns. 8vo. Later maroon morocco cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light stain to front cover, previous owner's stamp to ffep, contents fine. First edition, bound from 10 parts. 9 wood-engraved plates; [ii], 100 pp., text in double columns. 8vo. A later Jack Harkaway installment from Hemyng. Summers notes that the Hogarth House numbers "fell below the standard of the original series". cf. Summers, p. 372
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 242098
- Title
- Jack Harkaway on the Prairie
- Author
- (Boys' Adventure) Hemyng, Bracebridge
- Format/Binding
- 9 wood-engraved plates; [ii], 100 pp., text in double columns. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Later maroon morocco cloth, spine gilt-lettered, light stain to front cover, previous owner's stamp to ffep, contents fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, bound from 10 parts
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hogarth House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Popular Literature | Books in Parts
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Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Morocco
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- Fine
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