LANDMARKS - 1914 - XXIV. CONTENTS - PAGE Introducing ., I A Present for a Good Boy . . 6 First Glimpse of Jesuitry . 13 Entertainers and a Shock . 19 The Nice Gardener and a Problem . 30 The Terrifying Law . . 38 A Betrayal . 43 The Wager . 47 Astronomy . - 57 The Black Cat . . 6 0 Uncle Bens Phrase . 65 Mr. Dirnsdale . . 70 Lies Base and Splendid . 74 Showing how one who should much longer have retained his divinity lost it . - 83 The Strange Case of Mr. Vosper . . 102 The Latch Key . . 108 Lavis . 114 In which we see how ...
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LANDMARKS - 1914 - XXIV. CONTENTS - PAGE Introducing ., I A Present for a Good Boy . . 6 First Glimpse of Jesuitry . 13 Entertainers and a Shock . 19 The Nice Gardener and a Problem . 30 The Terrifying Law . . 38 A Betrayal . 43 The Wager . 47 Astronomy . - 57 The Black Cat . . 6 0 Uncle Bens Phrase . 65 Mr. Dirnsdale . . 70 Lies Base and Splendid . 74 Showing how one who should much longer have retained his divinity lost it . - 83 The Strange Case of Mr. Vosper . . 102 The Latch Key . . 108 Lavis . 114 In which we see how one thing leads to another . . . 124 The Stoat . I32 The Beautiful Pink Slip . I39 Another proof that it is no womans busi- ness to take an interest in herself . 147 Rudd meets his Fate . I59 Rudd visits Olympus . . 166 Surname only . 1. I75 vi CHAPTER xxv XXVI. XXVII. XXVIII. XXIX. XXX. XXXI. XXXII. XXXIII. XXXIV. xxxv. XXXVI. XXXVII. XXXVIII. XXXIX. X L. XLI. XLII. CONTENTS PAGE In which the unexpected happens more than once . . 180 Pitys Bill comes in . . 188 In which Rudd is suddenly called upon to deny a prophet and instruct his fellow men . I99 The Wedding . 206 Further proof that a womans interest in a man must be managed with skill if she is to hold him, . 216 Plovers Eggs . . 228 In which Rudd learns how costly it can be to have all ones expenses paid by the wealthy . . 238 At fzo, ooo a year . . 243 Additional evidence that its our money they want . 249 The Angel again . . 260 The Dread Small Hours . . 264 Rudd is Launched . . 270 Avon 275 Miss Brooke . . 281 Love 289 The Price of Happiness . 297 The Book . . 301 The Knees of the Gods . 307 LANDMARKS LANDMARKS CHAPTER I INTRODUCING F this story were told on the cinematograph as The I Life of Rudd Sergison, or The Most Significant Passages in the Life of Rudd Sergison only, of course, the public would need a far more sensationally alluring title than these, it would begin, I suppose, earlier, and in the manner of a Chinese play show us the courtship of his honourable father and mother tender passages in a sitting-room raked by a high wind, or scenes of that kind. My narrative ought perhaps to do the same but instead I have chosen a later starting-point, and thereafter have endeavouredpassing Rudds career in review-to put myself in the place of the gifted gentlemen who apply the severe selective machinery of the cinema and with such decision discard all but the relevant and constructive. The task has not been easy so far from it that I have often found myself wishing that instead of Landmarks I had called the book Incidents and thus spread a wider net...
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Good. No DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine intact, light fading and fraying to bottom of spine. Cracking to hinges, fly-leaf page loose but included. PO name on front and back pastedown along with pocket from personal library. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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First American edition
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Macmillan
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1914
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English
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Ex-Library. Author, title, and design, in gilt, impressed on front cover. Includes seven pages of ads for other Lucas titles at end of book. Lucas was a prolific English author, on the staff of "Punch" magazine, and was a member of J. M. Barrie's team the "Allahakbarries", along with Henry Herbert La Thangue and Arthur Conan Doyle. Ex-library with minimal markings.
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Good. First edition. Good hardcover. Writing on front endpaper. Small stamp on bottom half of inside front cover. Former library book. Hinge cracked. Corners rubbed and bent. Edges of spine rubbed and bumped. Spine brown. Pages light brown.
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