Queer People : With Wings and Stings and their Kweer Kapers
by Cox, Palmer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers. Good with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine covering nearly gone, edgeworn, cover darkening, toned, light soil, 3" front free endpaper gutter tear, two owner's signatures, wear. Still solid oversize hardcover. ; First edition of this collection of fifteen Palmer Cox stories in verse, with his absolutely delightful anthropomorphic birds, insects and other animals. First Edition by Hubbard Brothers per E Lee Baumgarten's authoritative Price Guilde and Bibliographic Check List for Children's and Illustrated Books 1880-1970; later publishers include Edgewood in the 1890s and M A Donahue after 1901. Hard-to-find First Edition of early Palmer Cox book, published the year after his first Brownies book. ; [111] pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15561
- Title
- Queer People : With Wings and Stings and their Kweer Kapers
- Author
- Cox, Palmer
- Illustrator
- Palmer Cox illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hubbard Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Juvenile Poetry, Conduct Of Life, Wit and Humor, Illustration Art, Brownies
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About the Seller
Mike's Library
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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