The Diary of a Goose Girl
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Popular children's author Wiggin (1856-1923) is most famous for her novel "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." This is a Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Charming decorative tan cloth binding, featuring the Goose Girl and sixteen of her charges in black, white, and orange. Illustrated throughout by Claude A. Shepperson. Clean text, free of any marginalia; 117 pages; one-page advert opposite the half-title. Previous-owner signature on the FFEP; some spotting on the endpapers, light soiling. Lacking the dustjacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Firtst Edition.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Claude A. Shepperson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003061
- Title
- The Diary of a Goose Girl
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Illustrator
- Claude A. Shepperson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Firtst Edition.
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...