Eric Bright Eyes
Published by United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company, New York, 1891
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.Quercus Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since January 26, 2005
Association member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 300.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
New York: United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company, 1891. Haggard penned this Viking romance after a trip to Iceland in 1888. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the "Authorized Edition" with an Introduction by Haggard [1891] added. The First American Edition, quite a scarce title.Part of "Lovell's International Series." US Book Company had taken over Lovell when it failed. Turquoise cloth binding, decoratively stamped in black; with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; xiv, 321 pages; decorative endpapers; with fourteen pages of publisher adverts in the rear. Frontis illustration and others within by Lancelot Speed. This is an ASSOCIATION copy; the front paste-down has the armorial bookplate of Hobart VanZandt Bosworth (1867-1943), a pioneer actor, director, writer, and producer in the California film industry; [he has a star on the Holywood Walk of Fame]. He has signed on the next endpage and dated it in 1899. Light rub to the margins, with minor fray to the head and foot of the spine. First American Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by Lancelot Speed. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Eric Bright Eyes
- Author
- Haggard, H. Ridder
- Publisher
- United States Book Company Successor to John W. Lovell Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1891
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Lancelot Speed
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Literature
Quercus Rare Books
Chico, CA, U.S.A.
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Quercus Rare Books has been an online resource for readers and collectors since 1999. We seek to provide noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our main focus is Modern Literature, in particular the great Irish writers of the early 20th Century. We also specialize in Irish History and the Politics of Ireland's liberation. Other areas of interest are American History and significant works of the 18th-and 19th-century. Quercus is a Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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Quercus Rare Books
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