New York: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 401 pages; Offsetting to endpapers from Dust Jacket flaps, otherwise clean and tight in original red cloth binding in a nice dust jacket with minor wear at head & tail of spine; head of dustjacket internally reinforced with archival tissue. Little Mr. Preemby "married into laundrying," but when strong-minded Mrs. Preemby died he and Christina Alberta gladly abandoned the laundry and went forth to London in search of adventure. Mr. Preemby had always loved to dwell in imagination on the mysteries of ancient times -- the lost Atlantis, the meaning of the Pyramids, and so on -- and when at an amateur seance a pseudo-medium hailed him as Sargon, King of Sumeria, returned to earth, the little laundryman accepted the call and determined to bring again the golden days of his great reign." ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

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Bookseller: Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 39042
Title: CHRISTINA ALBERTA'S FATHER (First Edition; in Dustjacket)
Author: Wells, H. G
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1925
Keywords: English Literature Fantasy Science Fiction Modern
Bookseller catalogs: Modern First Editions;

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At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.

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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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Tail: The heel of the spine.
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