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Little Rosy's Voyage of Discovery Undertaken in the Company with Her Cousin Charley
by Hetzel, Pierre-Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair to Good
- Seller
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1868. A beat-up old copy that was rebacked with a leather spine, now very worn; Green end papers, former owner's penciled name on third ffep, much age toning and wear; Textblock mostly clean and tight; Leather spine with moderately scuffed and worn head and foot; Very edge worn and frayed blue cloth boards with heavy wear and soiling, frayed corners and fore-edges; Front cover gilt stamped, and with blind-embossed borders; No pagination; Previous owner's signature on the third ffep verso, dated New Years Day 1869; Title page scuffed along the fore-edge with ceased lower right corner.. First Edition. Quarter Leather, Cloth Sides. Fair to Good. Illus. by Forty-Eight Illustrations By Lorenz Frolich. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Clausen Books, RMABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SB15340
- Title
- Little Rosy's Voyage of Discovery Undertaken in the Company with Her Cousin Charley
- Author
- Hetzel, Pierre-Jules
- Illustrator
- Forty-Eight Illustrations By Lorenz Frolich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1868
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Nineteenth Century Children's Literature, Rosy and Charley Adventure
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Children's;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Clausen Books, RMABA
Biblio member since 2006
Colorado Springs, Colorado
About Clausen Books, RMABA
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- FFEP
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- Spine
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- 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...
- Cloth
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