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The King Was in His Counting House: Available Copies
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The King Was in His Counting House (First Edition) by Branch Cabell, James
Hardcover
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Publisher: Farrar and Rinehart (1938)
Seller: M.S. Books (Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $20.00
Shipping: $5.00
TOTAL Cost: $25.00
First Edition, First Printing of this later novel by the inventive early 20th Century writer James Branch Cabelll. The second book in his Heirs and Assigns trilogy. 301 pages, cloth. No dust jacket. Has heavy tanning at the edges of the covers and tanning of the page edges.
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The King Was in His Counting House by CABELL, James Branch
Hardcover
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Publisher: Farrar, Rinehart, New York (1938)
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $50.00
Shipping: $5.50
TOTAL Cost: $55.50
First edition. Bookplate on pastedown, green cloth faded at spine and edges of the boards as usual thus only about very good in very good dustwrapper with a couple light stains on the rear panel and with some light chipping at the spinal extremities.
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THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE. A Comedy of Common Sense. by CABELL,, [James] Branch.
Hardcover
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Publisher: London, Bodley Head 1939. (1939)
Seller: Grant's Bookshop (Cheltenham, VIC, Australia)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $43.02
Shipping: $14.95
TOTAL Cost: $57.97
xvi+304pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, rubbed on rear panel and price torn from inner flap. Edges browned. A very good copy. . First UK edition.
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THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE by Cabell, Branch ( James )
Hardcover
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Publisher: The Bodley Head, London, UK (1939)
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books (Naas, IE, Ireland)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $44.85
Shipping: $26.13
TOTAL Cost: $70.98
First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression). with "First Published 1939" to the copyright page. The original dust jacket is not price clipped, chipping and loss to the jacket at the top of the spine and upper corners, rubbing, light wear to the base, internally clean, owner plate to front end page, a touch of spotting.
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $41.44
Shipping: $33.31
TOTAL Cost: $74.75
nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - _The King Was In His Counting House_ might best be described as history-as-fantasy. It is set in the Renaissance Italy of Jacobean tragedy rather than history, where every powerful nobleman is a Machiavellian fiend, plots abound, and virtue is in peril. Shimmering just beyond the horizon is the land of Branlon, the country of minor poets, a refuge from the treachery and danger of politics and power. A satirical romance in the best Cabell manner.
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Seller: moluna (Greven, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $32.16
Shipping: $53.33
TOTAL Cost: $85.49
Klappentextrnrn_The King Was In His Counting House_ might best be described as history-as-fantasy. It is set in nthe Renaissance Italy of Jacobean tragedy rather than history, where every powerful nobleman is a nMachiavellian fiend, plots abound.
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Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH (Einbeck, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $58.03
Shipping: $34.13
TOTAL Cost: $92.16
nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - _The King Was In His Counting House_ might best be described as history-as-fantasy. It is set in the Renaissance Italy of Jacobean tragedy rather than history, where every powerful nobleman is a Machiavellian fiend, plots abound, and virtue is in peril. Shimmering just beyond the horizon is the land of Branlon, the country of minor poets, a refuge from the treachery and danger of politics and power. A satirical romance in the best Cabell manner.
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Seller: moluna (Greven, Germany) New Book
Book Price: $45.66
Shipping: $53.33
TOTAL Cost: $98.99
Klappentextrnrn_The King Was In His Counting House_ might best be described as history-as-fantasy. It is set in nthe Renaissance Italy of Jacobean tragedy rather than history, where every powerful nobleman is a nMachiavellian fiend, plots abound.
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The King was in His Counting House by Cabell, [James] Branch
Hardcover
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Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, New York and Toronto (1938)
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop (HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $125.00
Shipping: $12.00
TOTAL Cost: $137.00
First edition. With illustrations by Charles Child. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine in almost fine dust jacket by Child With illustrations by Charles Child. 1 vols. 8vo
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