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The Dust of Combat: Available Copies
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The Dust of Combat: A Life of Charles Kingsley by Martin, Robert Bernard
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Publisher: (1960)
Seller: Library House Internet Sales (Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Poor
Book Price: $4.00
Shipping: $6.99
TOTAL Cost: $10.99
Former library book. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.
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The Dust of Combat A Life of Charles Kingsley by Robert Bernard Martin
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Faber and Faber (1959)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $8.73
Shipping: $6.25
TOTAL Cost: $14.98
1959. First Edition. 308 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.
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The Dust of Combat: A Life of Charles Kingsley by Robert Bernard Martin
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Faber and Faber (1959)
Seller: World of Rare Books (Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $13.34
Shipping: $6.25
TOTAL Cost: $19.59
1959. First Edition. 308 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Notable rubbing and marking all over. Sticker to rear panel. Droplet to spine.
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THE DUST OF COMBAT, A LIFE OF CHARLES KINGSLEY by Martin, Robert Bernard
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Norton and Co (1960)
Seller: Melanie Nelson Books (Livingston, NY, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $22.00
Shipping: $3.50
TOTAL Cost: $25.50
--------red cloth covers, gilt spine letters and cover design, book is near 9" tall. 308 pages with frontispiece portrait and 16 other photos.FINE CONDITION, tight solid binding and hinges, clean text, with chipped and rubbed dust jacket.
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The Dust of Combat: A Life of Charles Kingsley by Robert Bernard Martin
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London (1959)
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Fine
Book Price: $30.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $36.00
Original red gilt designer cloth with coat-of-arms on cover. The definitive biography of the author of WESTWARD HO! and THE WATER BABIES, with much material on the British folkloric tradition. A clean, bright, unmarked copy,
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The Dust of Combat by Martin, Robert Bernard
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: New York, Norton (1960)
Seller: MW Books Ltd. (Galway, Ireland)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $26.86
Shipping: $15.19
TOTAL Cost: $42.05
Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. Illus. 23 cm. Subjects: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. 1 Kg.
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The Dust of Combat by Martin, Robert Bernard
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: New York, Norton (1960)
Seller: MW Books (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $42.74
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $42.74
Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 308 pages; Description: 308 p. Illus. 23 cm. Subjects: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. 1 Kg.
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The Dust of Combat: A Life of Charles Kingsley - SIGNED copy in dust jacket by MARTIN, Robert Bernard [INSCRIBED]
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co, New York (1960)
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA (Seattle, WA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $40.00
Shipping: $3.50
TOTAL Cost: $43.50
8vo. Pp. 308. Frontis. subject portrait. Illustrated with 7 additional halftone plates, index. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, coat of arms in gilt on the cover. Inscribed in ink on the title page "With all good wishes to Ray, RBM." Binding tight, boards square, leaves crisp and bright. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket with price $5.95 intact on the front flap: edges chipped, light abrasions. Kingsley 1819 - 1875 was a parish priest, Chaplain to the Queen, tutor to the Prince of Wales, professor of History at Cambridge, novelist, Christian Socialist, pamphleteer, etc. Today he's perhaps best known for Westward Ho! and the perennial seller, Water Babies. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.
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The Dust of Combat; A Life a Charles Kingsley by Martin, Robert Bernard (Biography of Charles Kingsley.)
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, New York ()
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $31.50
Shipping: $16.50
TOTAL Cost: $48.00
1960, 1st American edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 308pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and gilt cover device. Illustrations, photographs, sources, index. The covers and spine are lightly edgeworn, the dust jacket is creased and rubbed with a few chips and soil marks, and there is some underlining in the text. "Charles Kingsley was born, appropriately enough, in the same year as Queen Victoria -- appropriately, for if there ever lived such a mythical figure as a typical Victorian, Kingsley might well be that man". Biography of Charles Kingsley. Time Period. (Biography, Biography, Novelists, Poets--England, Victorian England)
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THE DUST OF COMBAT: A LIFE OF CHARLES KINGSLEY. by Martin, Robert Bernard.
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: ()
Seller: Oast Park Books (Southend -on- Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $29.38
Shipping: $25.93
TOTAL Cost: $55.31
1959. Faber & Faber. First. Hard Cover. Book-VG. DJ-Good, small repair to spine. 9x6. 308pp. B/w frontis.
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