Fetch Over the Canoe: A Story of a Song [Inscribed & Signed]
by William Lightfoot Visscher
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Atwell Printing and Binding Co, 1908. Very Good. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's blue cloth, pictorial plate lettered in red and black mounted to upper cover, green floral endpapers; 114pp.; frontispiece, plates with pictorial tissue guards printed on white and red stock bound in, additional illus. and music in text. Boards rubbed, faint ring-stain to upper cover, else Very Good, internally fine.
Inscribed and signed by the author on flyleaf: "For Miss Lois Cecile [illegible] / This is a true story -- in it I saw coined [?] part of my 'old good' heart. I couldn't do it again--The inspiration [?] is gone -- The die is cast. / Yours with Good wishes / W. Lightfoot Visscher / Chicago... July 26, 1913." The Kentucky-born author's fourth novel.
Inscribed and signed by the author on flyleaf: "For Miss Lois Cecile [illegible] / This is a true story -- in it I saw coined [?] part of my 'old good' heart. I couldn't do it again--The inspiration [?] is gone -- The die is cast. / Yours with Good wishes / W. Lightfoot Visscher / Chicago... July 26, 1913." The Kentucky-born author's fourth novel.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21072
- Title
- Fetch Over the Canoe: A Story of a Song [Inscribed & Signed]
- Author
- William Lightfoot Visscher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Atwell Printing and Binding Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1908
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