The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were published and the original editions are still readily available in used book shops. The novels gave their name to a fictional genre called Ruritanian romance from Hope's work or Graustarkian romance from McCutcheon's. This genre contains tales of romance and intrigue usually featuring titled characters in small, ...
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The Graustark novels are stories of court intrigue, royal disguise, and romance similar to Anthony Hope's 1894 novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, and its sequels. They were popular best-sellers at the time they were published and the original editions are still readily available in used book shops. The novels gave their name to a fictional genre called Ruritanian romance from Hope's work or Graustarkian romance from McCutcheon's. This genre contains tales of romance and intrigue usually featuring titled characters in small, fictional, Central European or East European countries.
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Add this copy of Truxton King: a Story of Graustark to cart. $11.96, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published by Grosset & Dunlap.
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Add this copy of Truxton King, a Story of Graustark to cart. $14.00, fair condition, Sold by Top Notch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tolar, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Grosset & Dunlap.
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Fisher, Harrison. Fair. No Jacket. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Red cloth boards rubbed and chipped on edges, front pastedown chipped on edges. Front inside hinge weak. Frontispiece and one illustration page detatched but present. Reading copy.
Add this copy of Truxton King: A Story of Graustark to cart. $14.62, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2015 by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform.
Add this copy of Truxton King: a Story of Graustark to cart. $15.82, good condition, Sold by The Parnassus BookShop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Grosset & Dunlap Publishers.
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Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Hard Back 1909 Reprint. Hardcover Book in Good Condition w/o jacket. Illustrations by Harrison Fisher, b/w Frontis and three full page plates. Tipped on color plate to front cover. Red cloth binding with black titles on spine. Clean, with darkening of front color plate, light wear to extremities. Slight lean to spine. Tight and solid. Prev owner name and writing on endpapers. Foxing on some pages but mostly clean and unmarked, no creasing, toned. George Barr McCutcheon (1866-1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. This is one of the series of Graustark novels-six in all-which are set in Graustark, a fictional East European country and are filled with adventure, chivalry, and romance (of the 19th century kind! ). 369 pages. 5 x 7.5 inches. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1909.
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Add this copy of Truxton King, a Story of Graustark to cart. $17.00, good condition, Sold by Wonderful Books By Mail rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chico, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Grosset & Dunlap Pub.
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Illustrated by Fisher, harrison COVER, . Frontis & 3 OTHERS IN TEXT. Good. 5x7" Good Cond, minor COVER & spine wear....Solidly bound.; FULL SIZED COVER IN COLOR...MAN LIGHTING CIGARETTE. ALL PASTED TO FRONT RED CLOTH HARD COVER..; 369ps pages; Includes glossy ilusts. cover ilust pasted on, shows man lighting cigarette. Black spine titles on RED CLOTH HARD COVERS ADVERTS AT END OF BOOK. During McCutcheon's childhood, his father had a number of jobs that required travel around the county. McCutcheon studied at Purdue University and was a roommate of future humorist George Ade. During his college years, he was editor of the Lafayette Daily Courier and wrote a serial novel of satire about Wabash River life. McCutcheon became famous for the Graustark series.
Add this copy of Truxton King a Story of Graustark to cart. $17.78, good condition, Sold by Days of Old Books and More rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wadesville, IN, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Tredition Classics.
Add this copy of Truxton King to cart. $19.00, good condition, Sold by Pepper's Old Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hanson, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Grosset & Dunlap Pub.
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