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Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim
by Valentine, Laura
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. [30] leaves of text interspersed with [24] leaves of color plates: wood-engravings; 27 cm. Original dark green cloth with gilt stamped spine and cover titles; gilt and black stamped cover illustration and decoration. Imprint includes: New York: Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong. Date taken from English Catalogue of Books. Publisher's device printed on title page. Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal. All are unsigned and without imprint. Plates and text are separated by guard sheets. "Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Jennie Z. Banks Presented by her Uncle C. Jack Christmas 1874." Each story includes one double-page illustration. In Very Good Condition: corners are rubbed with minor fraying; front joint rubbed with 1-cm. split in cloth; back board slightly rubbed; front is clean and bright; finger-soiling on a few guard pages and one page of text; otherwise clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003744
- Title
- Aunt Louisa's Holiday Guest: Comprising, Dame Trot and Her Cat, Good Children, Bruin the Bear, Home for the Holidays; with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim
- Author
- Valentine, Laura
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women Writers;
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
About Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Spine
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