Oft-Told Tales of Lincoln
by WINCHESTER, Mollie C
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co, 1944. Hardcover. Illustrations by Marguerite M. Jones. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and rules and large color plate to front board, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 190pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, numerous small line drawings, 11 full-page color plates, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Jacket edgeworn, with chip at head of spine. Attractive and tight fourth printing of this charming young adult collection first published in 1928. Jones' delicately colored plates are superb. MONAGHAN 3065.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45704
- Title
- Oft-Told Tales of Lincoln
- Author
- WINCHESTER, Mollie C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1944
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Children's; Abraham Lincoln;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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