The Birds' Christmas Carol

by WIGGIN, Kate Douglas

Price: $50.00

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. GOOD book condition/NO dust jacket. Early printing - copyright 1886 by author, 1888 by Houghton Mifflin with this copy printed in 1890 by The Riverside Press, Cambridge. Green illustrated cloth hard cover with quarter cream spine. Black illustration & lettering on front, black lettering on spine. Corner, edge & spine end bumps & rubs. Minor rub through at corners. Dampness wrinkle on front cover & through end papers to back of frontispiece. Spine is slightly darkened. General age/shelf soil. Hinge gauze showing at title page but still firmly attached. Small corner chip to first page of text. Black & white line drawing frontispiece with protective tissue attached. A black & white vignette on title page and 8 other black & white line drawings. Fictional story of the Bird household at Christmas time beginning with the birth of a baby girl. Provides a brief glimpse into life in the 1890's. 67 pp. Pages are clean, tight & unmarked. Also available is "Timothy's Quest", 1918, by this author. Picture is provided by the seller & is of actual book you will receive. . Unstated. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.