Lily's Adventure and Kearneys' White Headed Boy
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Religious Tract Society. Good. Hardcover. 80 p. 14 cm. No publication or copyright date, but likely late 1800s. Blue cloth-covered boards, with orange and black illustration and titles. Both hinges split open but spine cloth appears glued to the text block so holding on. Wear to the edges and corners. Cloth has lifted in a few spots. Overall rubbed with some soiling. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Endpapers discoloured. Pages have occasional soiling and are tanned. Tear to two pages at gutter. Two short tales of children and their adventures with the usual Christian theme of this publisher. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1656
- Title
- Lily's Adventure and Kearneys' White Headed Boy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- The Religious Tract Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Religious;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Cloth
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