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Condition: New.
Notes: Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 142 p. Intended for a juvenile audience.
Seller: Alibris , Sparks , NV

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Description: Hardcover. cover and corner wear. no dust jacket. light soiling on book edge. book is slightly slanted.
Condition: Good
Seller: Wagon Wheel Books , DFW , TX

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Description: hardcover with decorative cover
Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Covers ( blue ) show light fade and spotting. Title and design in black and red good. Light wear on spine top & bottom. Round stain on back. Foxing on inside covers and flies. Text has some light foxing. Text clean. Binding tight.
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Seller: Pam Hirschhorn Books , Harrisburg , PA

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Condition: New.
Notes: Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 268 p.
Seller: Alibris , Sparks , NV

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Condition: New.
Notes: Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 264 p.
Seller: Alibris , Sparks , NV

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Condition: New.
Notes: Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 268 p.
Seller: Alibris , Sparks , NV

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Condition: New.
Notes: Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 406 p.
Seller: Alibris , Sparks , NV

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Condition: Very Good
Notes: 1889 catalogue, later issue. 352 pages, [8] leaves of plates: illustrations; 20 cm Dartt, p. 102. Bound in publisher's handsome pictorial cloth. Minor shelf wear. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. George Alfred Henty was a prolific English Victorian novelist and war correspondent (1832-1902). Henty volunteered for the Army Hospital Commissariat when the Crimean War began. He was with a well traveled war correspondent, following the Austro-Italian war of 1866, accompanying Garibaldi at Tirolese. Also he journeyed with Lord Napier through Magdala and Lord Wolseley to Kumassi. He was at the opening of the Suez Canal. He reported the Franco-German War, starved in the the siege of the Paris Commune, and then went to cover the Carlist insurrection in the Pyrennees. "He was in Asiatic Russia at the time of the Khiva expedition, and later saw the desperate hand-to-hand fighting of the Turks in the Serbian War. " Ency. Brit. Vol. 13, p. 303. Henty went on to write over 112 books and over 80 for a juvenile audience. Many of his books feature boys or young men in tumultuous times. Henty was an important popular writer for the advancement of British Imperialism. Kathryn Castle states that, "Henty...exemplified the ethos of the new imperialism, and glorified in its successes, " Reading Colonialism through children's books and magazines. Manchester, 1996. p. 55.
Seller: Sequitur Books , Boonsboro , MD

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Condition: Very Good. No Jacket
Notes: 352 pages (complete). A comfortable copy of Henty's rip-roaring tale of the infamous Battle of the Boyne and the Sieges of Limerick (the resulting storms from which Ireland is still recovering). The boards have gilt titling and decoration. They have scuffing, rubbing, marks about. They are steady and sure. The page trims are trimmed in green. The contents have evidence of use and age. They are by far clean, clear, convivial, companionable, eager. fk.
Seller: Chapter 1 Books , Johannesburg

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Description: 295 p.
Condition: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Wear to edges of cover. Missing first free page. Front hinge cracked. Cover loose from binding.
Seller: Anne Foster Books , Lawton , Mi