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Eyes Like the Sea
Maurus Jokai [Mor Jokai]; R. Nisbet Bain [trans.]
1901
G. P. Putnams Sons : New York
8" by 5.5"
xii, 1-396 [4]pp
SUMMARY
An very scarce English language translation of Hungarian novelist Maurus Jokais celebrated novel.
Publishers Original Binding,Very Scarce
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs1 KG when packed
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DESCRIPTION
Translated from the original Hungarian into English by R. Nisbet Bain, whose translation of the work was first published in 1893. Contemporary translations of this novel, in any edition, are very scarce.
The title of the work relates to the heroine, Bessy, a girl of gentle ancestry with an adventurous nature who, during the course of the novel, marries five times, with the five husbands represented every segment of society, from peasants to lords.
Jokai was a leader of the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in Pest, with his later romantic novels becoming widely popular among the elite of Victorian England, with Queen Victoria herself enjoying his works.
In a charming pictorial cloth binding, and with four pages of advertisements to the rear.
Contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, dated 1901.
CONDITION
In the publishers original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, with small light spots to front board. Externally, lovely. Rear hinge lightly strained to tail but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters, and otherwise clean and bright.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine- Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed- Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good- Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good- Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under condition
Good Only- Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair- As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor- Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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