Under two flags von ouida ramee (6 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. shows minor wear, gift inscription in the prelims.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. Klappentext This Story was originally written for a military periodical. It has been fortunate enough to receive much commendation from military men, and for them it is now specially issued in its present form. For the general public it .

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 470 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 22.5 x 15 cm. 238 pp. Bound together Moths (1904) and Under Two Flags (1905) with continuous pagination and twin column text. Blue cloth with gilt decoration: some wear to spine cover at extremes' otherwise clean and crisp. Front and rear gutters exposed but binding entirely firm. Neat owner's name to FEP and toning thereto. Tear ro REP. Clean throughout and without issue despite lower quality paper stock. The 'Popular Edition' of the famous novel, Moths, coupled with another.…

A New edition. 8vo, viii, 608pp, [2], 32pp ads dated May 1882, and with additional ads on endpapers. 'Yellowback', original printed yellow paper covered boards, ship vignette to spine, Pears Soap advert to rear board. London, Chatto & Windus. n.d. [1882]. Originally published in 1867, Under Two Flags was "was one of Ouida's most famous and successful novels of the 1860s." (Natalie Schroeder, Shari Hodges Holt, Ouida the Phenomenon. Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in Her Fiction (2008, p.70). It was one of the first of Ouida's works to reach the silver screen, adaptations appearing in 1916, 1922, and 1936. "Under Two Flags, which Ouida originally wrote for a military periodical, focuses on honor and adventure - fox hunts, horse racing, exotic landscapes, and foreign warfare" (ibid). Ownership inscription and date (1882) to title-page with a tear resulting from the effaced surname, pen inscription to upper board similarly effaced. Boards scuffed, hinges cracked but holding, joints worn and webbing visible, head and tail of spine cracked, and with losses to the paper on the lower board. Internally in reasonably good order.…