Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers: A Story for Girls

Bookseller

Matthew's Books LLC (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

851

Title

Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers

Author

Wiggin, Kate Douglas

Illustrator

Mills Thompson

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - good: wear and soil to boards and spine, spine sunned, hinge cracked at FFEP, gift inscription on FFEP, text clean, binding inta

Jacket Condition

no DJ

Quantity Available

1

Edition

first edition

Publisher

Henry Altemus

Date Published

1903

Keywords

children, girls, fiction

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Cracked

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Sunned

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12mo

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Hinge

The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.

First Edition

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