Boston: The Page Company, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Josephine Bruce. 12mo. 60, (12) pages. Hardcover bound in decorative pale green cloth. Some rubbing and wear to the binding with some soiling from handling. Small white piece of paper stuck the to the front cover. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Endpapers foxed. Early owner's Dec. 25, 1918 inscription on the front flyleaf. The interior pages are a little toned about the edges. Contains 4 illustrations.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 042607
Title: A Christmas Promise. (The Cosy Corner Series)
Author: Jacobs, Carolina E
Illustrator: Josephine Bruce
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Page Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1915
Keywords: 1915; Caroline E. Jacobs; Josephine Bruce; Christmas Books; Juvenile.
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Books; Literature & Fiction;

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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...