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c1916 A Book of Brave Women by Oliver Hope / RTS, London / Decorative Boards / In Good Condition

c1916 A Book of Brave Women by Oliver Hope / RTS, London / Decorative Boards / In Good Condition

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In very good condition, here is an antique copy of A Book of Brave Women. Undated but with a prize book plate from 1916 on the front free endpaper. True historical tales. Condition in detail below.

Contents: The Gentle Daughter of a Terrible Duke - The Story of Marie of Burgundy; An Adventure in the King's Chamber - How Margaret Twinstoun Saved Her Lover; A Woman Who Kept Her Word - Dame Ingilby of Ripley; A Brave Minister's Wife - How Mrs Grainger Saved the Scottish Regalia; A Woman Who Watched Her Husband Die - Isabel Weir; A Determined Daughter - Grizel Cochrane; Lady Sophia's Page - How Lady Sophia Lindsay Saved the Earl of Argyll; A Brave Bride - The Story of Clementina Sobieski; The Defence of a Fort - The Story of Madeline de Vercheres; The Woman Who Saved a Cannon - Molly Pitcher, La Capitaine; An Adventurer in an Inn - The Story of a Gallant Servant; Two Loyal Daughters - Anastasie and Virginie Lafayette; A Faithful Friend - The True Story of Brave Madame Bergeret; A Wife Worth Having - Lady Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald; True Until Death - The Story of Anita Garibaldi; The Girl Who Saved a Patriot - Teresa Baldini; Among the Cannibals of Fuji - The Story of Mrs Calvert's Little Finger; A Heroine of Russia - The Story of Catherine Breshkooskya; The Saving of the Flag - Lady Inglis in the Siege of Lucknow; The Angel of the Battlefield - The Story of Clara Barton; A Loyal Amah - How Mrs Prothero's Baby Was Lost and Found; The Girl Who Gave Her Life For a Mother - A Story of the SS Titanic.

Inside the pages are clean and tightly bound. With tanning and spotting to the closed outside edges. Has the above-mentioned prize bookplate on the front free endpaper, but no other writing or markings of previous ownership. Has two colour plates.

Blue cloth covered boards have decoration to the front and spine. In top order - clean, smart un-faded.

Your antique copy of A Book of Brave Women will be wrapped with care in tissue and ribbon* and sent well packaged. I am always happy to add a gift card with a message to the parcel.

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H 20 cm X 15 cm, 326 pages, 0.44 kg. I dispatch worldwide daily from the UK. (There are just a very few countries which I am unable to ship to).

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