Daisy
by Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan Company, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Judith Gwyn Brown. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by author on ffep. First Edition, first printing (with full number line). Gold cloth boards stamped in red. Interior is clean, pages crisp. Dust jacket has shallow chip to the top edge of front panel; water-spotting along spine; has a couple short closed tears; not price clipped ($4.95). DJ in archival sleeve. 69, [1] pp. 8.75 x 6.25 inches. Inscribed by Elizabeth Coatsworth "on a sunny Sunday at Chimney Farm." Chimney Farm was the author's home, which she shared with her husband, the nature writer Henry Beston, and their daughter Kate Barnes, Maine's first official Poet Laureate. The young adult story of a girl who travels to Mexico with her family on a Christmas-time vacation (which appears to be set sometime around the turn of the century). Daisy, an awkward dreamer, through her encounters in this new, vivid environment and with the Mexican culture, grows into a more confident explorer.
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- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012049
- Title
- Daisy
- Author
- Elizabeth Coatsworth
- Illustrator
- Judith Gwyn Brown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- children's, illustrated, girls, Mexico, travel, Chimney Farm,
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Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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- First Edition
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Inscribed
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