New York: Stokes, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. First edition. Slim octavo in navy blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt and with color and gilt decorated front board. Illustrated endpapers. 55 pp. With 5 full page black and white plates. A tight, fine bright example. In the original dust jacket, front panel reproducing the design of the front board. dime-sized chip center of spine and smaller chip at foot, narrow light creasing top edge. A Nativity story. A little hunchbacked boy, who has been badly treated his whole life, is banished from the only home he has ever known; on the road to Bethlehem, he happens on a man and his pregnant wife and witnesses a radience surrounding them. He follows them and is witness to miracles,

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: E17527
Title: The Little Hunchback Zia (in original dust jacket)
Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Stokes
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1916
Keywords: christmas, bethlehem, jesus, nativity, christ, joseph and mary, mary and joseph, blessed mother, st joseph
Bookseller catalogs: Christmas;

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

TRACKING AND INSURANCE AT OPTION OF BUYER. ON UNINSURED ITEMS, OUR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS WITH PROOF OF SHIPPING---NO EXCEPTIONS! Books are returnable if misdescribed; we must be notified within 48 hours of receipt if making a return. We conform to accepted ABAA grading. "First edition" means "first printing" unless noted; if it doesn't say it has a jacket then it doesn't; faults such as ownership signatures, price clipping, etc. will be noted in the listing. Member ABAA, ILAB, ABNJ.

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About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)

The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).

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