Girls in Bookland
by Hildegarde Hawthorne
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1917. Hardcover. Good. John Wolcott Adams. Tan-brown cloth boards stamped in green and dark-brown. Front edge of spine is frayed and worn; corners are pushed and worn. Penciled gift inscription on ffep, otherwise interior is clean. Fourteen plates (including frontispiece) illustrated by John Wolcott Adams. xii, 291 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. A very imaginative novel by Hildegarde Hawthorne (1871-1952), the granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Two sisters are transported into the books they've read, with each chapter being from a different novel , and such wishes being granted by their fairy friend. Some of the places they choose to travel to are from Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, Ivanhoe, Lorna Doone, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, Dicken's The Old Curiosity Shop, George Eliot's Romola, Longfellow's Evangeline, and King Arthur.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012951
- Title
- Girls in Bookland
- Author
- Hildegarde Hawthorne
- Illustrator
- John Wolcott Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1917
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- fiction, young adult, juvenile, John Wolcott Adams,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....