Published by Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc./A Doubleday-Galilee edition, 1980., 1980
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. "First edition" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Antony Groves-Raines. Originally published in 1879 as BIBLICAL THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN. Great classic and timeless gift. Fine and very tight in cream-green linen over golden-sand boards with blind embossed decoration to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny rubbed tear to the upper spine edge and a mild crimp to the upper edge of the rear panel; original printed $9.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 422 pages; subject index; text index.