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Beatrix Potter's Americans: Selected Letters
by Potter, Beatrix
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0876752822
- ISBN 13
- 9780876752821
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Horn Book, 1982. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, burgundy cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 215pp. including index. A collection of correspondence from Beatrix Potter to her American admirers. A tight, clean, unmarked volume with fresh white pages but a sign of water/damp at bottom corner noticeable only at the endpapers, else fine in a crisp, sharp, clean, tight dust jacket with moderately sunned spine not affecting the printed spine title or decoration. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 08167
- Title
- Beatrix Potter's Americans: Selected Letters
- Author
- Potter, Beatrix
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0876752822
- ISBN 13
- 9780876752821
- Publisher
- Horn Book
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- POTTER, BEATRIX, CHILDREN, CHILDREN'S, CHILDRENS', ILLUSTRATED, ILLUSTRATIONS, ILLUSTRATOR, PETER RABBIT, CLASSIC, JUVENILE, TALE, FABLE, STORY, FICTION, LETTERS, CORRESPONDENCE, MORSE, AMERICAN, AMERICANS, PEN PAL, PENPAL, FAN, ADMIRERS, ENGLISH,
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- Children's;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Quarto
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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