Books with title The Fortieth Door

Very Good; New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. First Edition and First Printing, with dates on title page and copyright page matching and last page of textblock bearing the numeral one at the end of the text. Large-ish 12mo, green cloth with gilt imprinting on cover and spine and blind-stamped cover illustration of the abode in the story, 324 pp. with last page being in fact numbered with a 1 as noted above, that being Appleton's first-printing designation. A nice copy, with almost no spine fade, moderate corner bumping, front hinge starting, penciled previous owner's names on ffep and front pastedown. Bright gilt and cloth, sturdy feel. A solid Very Good or better. The Fortieth Door, a romance/adventure set in Egypt, was made into a George B. Seitz film of the same name - which has since famously joined the ranks of "lost" films; there are no known extant copies of it. Here - a worthy example of an almost equally rare Bradley first edition - especially so as the first printing. L-28

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - He didn't want to go. He loathed the very thought of it. Every flinching nerve in him protested. A masked ball - a masked ball at a Cairo hotel! Grimacing through peep-holes, self-conscious advances, flirtations ending in giggles! Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking! Unhappily he gazed upon the girl who was proposing this horror as a bright delight. She was a very engaging girl - that was the mischief of it. She stood smiling there in the bright, Egyptian sunshine, gay confidence in her gray eyes. He hated to shatter that confidence.

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Excerpt from The Twentieth DoorThe scenes of the Academy life are taken from the famous school at Andover, Mass, where the author spent five of the happiest years of his life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.