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The White Company
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Murray, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. Seventieth Impression. 370 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Minor tear to title page. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy sunning and notable foxing to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild water droplets to surfaces. Book has forward lean.
Synopsis
From the book:The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts - as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long? All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St.Leonard's, they had all turned their steps home-wards
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1708593466ADA
- Title
- The White Company
- Author
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1946
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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