A Child-World
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Original burgundy cloth gilt. Light wear to spine ends, else fine. Bookplate of Ella Mabel Clark
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 262163
- Title
- A Child-World
- Author
- Riley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece by Will Vawter. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original burgundy cloth gilt. Light wear to spine ends, else fine. Bookplate of Ella Mabel Clark
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first state
- Publisher
- The Bowen Merrill Company
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis and Kansas City
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- American | James Whitcomb Riley
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Bookplate
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- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Spine
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