London: The Religious Tract Society, 1913. Undated, circa 1913. Features a humorous tinted photographic illustration mounted on the front cover with two young boys, one wielding a cricket bat and the other sitting on a wooden horse. Red blindstamp and black decorated cloth cover with gilt and black lettering, color frontispiece and title page, eighty pages plus publisher's advertisments. The book is in good condition with some edgewear including slight lean to the spine, gently rubbed and frayed corners, sound text block, good hinges, clean and pleasantly age- toned pages, with gift inscription on front free endpaper. . Hard Cover. Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Resource Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 019327
Title: Old Billy the Sweet-Maker
Author: Doughty, Gertrude
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: No
Publisher: The Religious Tract Society
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1913
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: CRICKET BOYS PLAYFUL CHILDREN'S PHOTOS RELIGIOUS TRACTS CIRCA 1913 FOR CHILDREN MORAL TALES BRITISH PUBLISHING
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Books; Philosophy, Theology, Religion, Spirituality;

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Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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...
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...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Blindstamp: A blindstamp is a stamped impression, usually an image, logo, words, or design on the cover or spine of a book, without color or...