The Parent's Present: Original Tales for Youth
by HALL, Clara
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Edward Lacey, [c.1830].. 12mo, 71, (1), (3)-71, (1), (3)-72, (3)-71, (1) pp. Frontispiece, engraved title and 18 plates, lacking fly leaf, lower part of the Preface leaf laid down with loss to text. Contemporary dark green quarter morocco, top of spine worn, contemporary hand written label to upper cover. Not in Osborne or Gumuchian, only 2 copies on OCLC. The text consists of "Parlour Stories" nos. 22-4 and 31-9; short tales with titles such as "Virtue", "Patriotism", "Temperance" and "Superstition"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15488
- Title
- The Parent's Present: Original Tales for Youth
- Author
- HALL, Clara
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London: Edward Lacey
- Date Published
- [c.1830].
- Keywords
- Children's / Illustrated
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see 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....