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Patience and Her Garden
by Ida Smith Decker (1863-1914)
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- very good
- paperback
- First
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
San Francisco:: Paul Elder & Company,, 1910. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Small 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches. [iv], 7, [1 blank] pp. Frontispiece, title page and text printed within a green ruled border, printed on laid paper; text clean, unmarked. Green printed wrappers printed on laid paper, front cover titled in green with vignette, all printed within gilt-ruled border, sewn binding; binding square and tight, lower corner roughed up a bit. Very Good. This little fable about the meaning of life was printed for "Paul Elder and Company by the Tomoye Press under the direction of John Henry Nash, during the Month of April, nineteen hundred and ten." From the colophon. References: Checklist of the Publications of Paul Elder & Co.: No. 230; Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography, No. D-258.
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Details
- Bookseller
- John Howell for Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- SGG213B-10
- Title
- Patience and Her Garden
- Author
- Ida Smith Decker (1863-1914)
- Format/binding
- Paperback
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Paul Elder & Company,
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco:
- Date published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Ida Smith Decker, Patience and Her Garden, John Henry Nash, Paul Elder, Tomoye Press, Fine Press, California Fine Press, Limited Edition
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John Howell for Books specializes in California books and ephemera, fine press, miniature books, the history of printing and books, fine press and artists books. I offer my books at my website and about 5 or 6 books fairs a year. I also distribute lists through email which include first offers for new material, so sign up for lists on my website, www.johnhowellforbooks.com. I am always looking to buy books in my specialties.
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- vignette
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- wrappers
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- 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...[more]
- tight
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- First Edition
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- colophon
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