THE LOST KING by Sabatini, Rafael - 1937

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Pages are yellowing. Spine is beginning to fade, and to crack at front endpaper. .

Hutchinson & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. 2nd Impression. 415 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Boston.: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1937. Hard cover. Good in poor dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Lower and upper spine ends compromised: chipped, fraying. Slight spine tilt. Corners bumped. Back cover stain. DJ in pieces, tucked inside. "N.S. Hope, Sept. 1937", 1st free endpaper; also "T.A..... 1 iv, 379 p. 21 cm. Born in Jesi, a small city in the Italian Marches, of Italian and English parentage, and educated in Switzerland and Portugal, Sabatini sets many of his novels in Jesi's glamorous history, rich with violence and beauty. This work begins with a mockery of royalty, as a royal youth raised in the gutter is interviewed, displaying the language of his crass upbringing.

Hutchinson, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. Reprinted. 415 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Houghton Mifflin Co, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in very good condition. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The fore-edge of the text block has deckled edges. The binding suffers minor to moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin Co, January 1937. Hardcover . 6.5 Bulk HB Low.

England: Hutchinson, 1952. Book. Good+/Vg-. Hardcover. Name in ink to front free endpaper.

New York: Collier, 1937. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Cloth. 356 pp. Scuffing to cloth. This is an attractive early copy of Sabatini's classic adventure novel.

Toronto. McClelland & Stewart. (1937). 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 21 cm, iv,379p., first Canadian edition, black cloth, red titles, former owner's name, very good condition (Lt). ~ A historical novel of the French Revolution and the legend of Louis XVII. The uncommon Canadian edition printed by T.H. Best, Toronto. With stamp of Ottawa bookseller, A.H. Jarvis.