Add this copy of Quentin Durward Volume II to cart. $16.00, good condition, Sold by P Peterson Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Osseo, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1894 by Dana Estes & Co..
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Blue cloth binding with gilt print and design on the spine. Gilt on the top page edging. Clean pages with no markings in the text. There is a name label on the inside front cover and a name printed on the front end paper. The front hinge is just beginning to crack, however the cover is firmly attached. The cover has some very light scuffing and a small soil spot on the back. There is very light rubbing on the cover corner tips and spine ends. The spine has a minor lean. Waverley Novels Illustrated Cabinet Edition.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward (Volume 2) to cart. $19.45, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1894 by John C. Nimmo.
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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. 8vo. Red binding. Gilt lettering and lion emblem on front board. Gilt lettering on spine. Shelf wear along edges of spine and corners of boards. Corners of both boards bent, lower corners dented. White paint mark at lower edge of back board (under 15cm x 4cm). Top edge of leaves cut, other edges uncut. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $23.68, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2015 by CreateSpace Independent Publis.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $25.12, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1878 by Marcus Ward and Co.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Clean text; age toned; light foxing; edges worn; gilt text on spine and cover; Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $25.68, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by CreateSpace Independent Publis.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $26.17, poor condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1887 by Adam & Charles Black.
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Covers marked and edgeworn. Binding splitting inside cover. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $28.57, fair condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1831 by William Patterson.
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Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy only. no dust jacket. Some loose pages. Worn through use. Volume 16th Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 450grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Quentin Durward (the ^Aworld's Classics) to cart. $34.79, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Oxford University Press.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward (Spanish Edition) to cart. $35.75, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by CreateSpace Independent Publis.
Add this copy of Quentin Durward to cart. $36.11, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Maven Books.
It was a happy surprise when I opened the package and realized I had in my hands an old library edition of one of Scott's classics, Quentin Durward. It has lovely art work .
The book arrived in good time and in excellent shape.
Skywalker
Apr 9, 2012
Quentin Durward - Satire on the code of chivalry
I recently watched the Hollywood movie version of Quentin Durward (in several Youtube installments), starring Robert Taylor, Kaye Kendall, and Robert Morley; and I decided to pick up a used hard-bound copy to read in the original literary format. Even after having read barely 70 pages of the book, including the 33-page "Introduction", I was able to affirm that for once Hollywood captured the book's droll, ironic humor, especially in the on-screen characterization of Louis XI (aka the "Spider King") as he was portrayed by Robert Morley.
I found myself chuckling aload at several passages in the introduction alone, in which Scott spends 31 pages describing a visit to France during a decline in his fortunes and his dismay at the ensuing conversion of his neice, Christian, to Catholicism, and her subsequent enrollment in a convent, and at his fifty-year-old Aunt's marriage to a French pop-in-jay described as looking "as if one pair of half-extended compasses had been placed perpendicularly upon the top of another, while the space on which the hinges revolved quite sufficed to represent the body ... the rest was mustache, pelisse, and callico trouser."
Scott eventually got around to the point of having an introduction, where (after 30+ pages) his host's remote Scottish lineage and extensive library of illuminated works on French history became the inspiration for this story about a Scottish adventurer's exploits during the era when Louis XI's Pre-Machiavellian intrigues solidified France into a modern state while simultaneously putting the final nails in the coffin's of both feudalism and the obsolescent "code of chivalry."
I finally finished th book, and it maintained its droll irony and dead-pan gallows-humor throughout! Very amusing - not at all what I had expected from Sir Walter Scott of all people.
