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Little Saint Elizabeth & Other Stories
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Lake Elsinore, California, United States
Item Price
$65.00$45.50
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1891. First American Edition. Hardcover. (1890) 146 pp. Plus 16 pp of illustrated ads. Gray cloth pictorially stamped in black, red and gilt. Beautifully illustrated by Reginald Birch; frontispiece with full tissue overlay and 11 additional b&w plates. Two wonderful inscriptions, to the original owner dated 1891 and then gifted to "Robin/from her Grand Aunt/" and dated 1953. An attractive copy with bright cover art; the ends and corners are bumped and edges rubbed; the spine is cocked and there are scattered finger smudges throughout. ; 8vo.; fair .
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5388
- Title
- Little Saint Elizabeth & Other Stories
- Author
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- Decorative Binding, American Literature, JUVENILE-Literature, JUVENILE-Victorian Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian & Collectible Books; Children & Young Adult;
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About the Seller
E Ridge fine Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lake Elsinore, California
About E Ridge fine Books
E Ridge Fine Books (2006) is an independent online bookstore and a member of IOBA. All books are carefully listed providing a description of condition and content
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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