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NOBLE BLOOD: A Prussian Cadet Story and A WEST POINT PARALLEL: AN American Cadet Story
by Von Wildenbruch, Ernst ; Charles King ; Anne Williston Ward
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: F. T. Neely. Very Good. 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. 211 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial cloth binding; cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends. Top edges gilt, foredge untrimmed. The wonderful scene on the decorative cloth binding wraps around from the front board to the spine and rear board. The scene depicts on the front board a Cadet standing in a wooded area aiming his rifle in the woods and continue to a view of his pack and bedroll on the rear cover. Two Stories in one volume: Noble Blood was translated from the German by Charles King & Anne Williston Ward, and A West Point Parallel was written by Charles King. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41646
- Title
- NOBLE BLOOD: A Prussian Cadet Story and A WEST POINT PARALLEL: AN American Cadet Story
- Author
- Von Wildenbruch, Ernst ; Charles King ; Anne Williston Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- F. T. Neely
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1896
- Size
- 8vo.
- Keywords
- West Point Military Academy, Military Fiction, Publishers Cloth Bindings, 1890s Book Design, Nineties Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century; Antiquarian Books;
Terms of Sale
Antiquarian Book Shop
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About the Seller
Antiquarian Book Shop
Biblio member since 2017
Washington, District of Columbia
About Antiquarian Book Shop
At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.
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- A.N.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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...
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