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How to Spoil a Good Citizen; and Other Stories
by [Abbot, Anne Wales]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Original black cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Minor spotting or soiling else fine
- Seller
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HACKETTSTOWN, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, and S. G. Simpkins, 1848. First edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Original black cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Minor spotting or soiling else fine. First edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Not in Wright.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26840
- Title
- How to Spoil a Good Citizen; and Other Stories
- Author
- [Abbot, Anne Wales]
- Format/Binding
- 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original black cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Minor spotting or soiling else fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Crosby and Nichols, and S. G. Simpkins
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- American
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Founded in 1978 by James Cummins, the firm has grown to include two New Jersey locations as well as the main store at 699 Madison Avenue. The Madison avenue store is an oasis for book-lovers, a quiet and pleasantly furnished book room with a carefully chosen, expertly catalogued and broad-based selection of fine and rare books, autographs, manuscripts, and works of art.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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- Spine
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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