Price: $350.00
Quantity: 1 available
Book Condition: Very Good
First Edition, Second Issue. Second state without the "S-like ornament" within the caption on p. 59; having no half title; with perfect type on p.72.
Publisher's decorative olive-green cloth stamped in blue-gray, black and gilt, spine gilt, lettered in gilt, blue-gray endpapers patterned in brown. 8vo, xiv, [15]-575, [1 blank] + [2] ad pp. 8.5 inches. Illustrated with 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous text illustrations (some full-page) by Dan Beard.
Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear with lower corners rubbed and light wear on spine tips.
Hank Morgan, knocked out during a fight, comes to in Camelot in the year 528, where he avoids execution by successfully predicting an eclipse, uses 19th century weapons to help repel an attack, marries, and has a child only to be put into a deep sleep by Merlin, to reawaken in his proper era.
Ref: Bal, 3429; Bleiler, (1995) 1-25; Wright, 1090; Allen 661
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Illustrator: Dan Beard
Categories: 19th CENTURY LITERATURE and WORKS,
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: New York, Charles L. Webster: 1889
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Type: Book
Size: 8vo - over 7 - 9
Seller ID: 013478