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Baby's Own Primer
by [No Author]
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover
- Seller
-
Webster, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co, 1877. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Edges rubbed, ink gift note on front endpaper ('From "my dear little Josi" on my third birth-day, Feb 21st. 1878.'). 1877 Hard Cover. [64 pp.] Blue cloth spine, color pictorial paper over boards. Engraved frontispiece, silhouette illustration on title page, full alphabet in both capital and lower case on copyright page, alphabet paired with illustrations featuring two letters per page, each paired with two lines of verse, with an additional page for '&', followed by fifteen brief stories, in which all polysyllabic words are hyphenated.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Muse Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2341176
- Title
- Baby's Own Primer
- Author
- [No Author]
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket - Pictorial Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- D. Lothrop & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1877
- Weight
- 0.63 lbs
- Keywords
- CHILDREN ANTIQUARIAN ABC PRIMER ALPHABET ALPHABETICAL
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About the Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books
Biblio member since 2005
Webster, New York
About Yesterday's Muse Books
Yesterday's Muse Inc. is an independent used & rare bookseller that has been in operation for over 15 years. We opened our first 'brick and mortar' storefront in December of 2008 in our hometown of Webster, NY.Owner Jonathan Smalter is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), former vice president of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), both of which are trade organizations created to promote ethical online selling practices, and to encourage continuing education among fellow booksellers. He is also a 2011 graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS). He has nearly 20 years of experience in the book trade, during which time he has become adept at evaluating used and collectible books.
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