NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1903. Reprint. Twenty-Third Printing. Leather. Publisher's full limp suede, gilt lettering on leather panels on spine and cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle, ribbon marker bound in, silk doublure. Illustrated with 14 full-page, tissue-protected portraits of the "famous women," including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, Madame de Stael, Jane Austen, the Empress Josephine, Mary W. Shelley, and others. . Label on spine partially detached, text block tight, square, and clean. All portraits clean and bright with tissue in place. VERY GOOD. . Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous People Series. Vol. 3. Portraits. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 429 pp .

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Great books. I have a set of 5, 1916 ed. worth the price

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 27107
Title: Little Journeys: To the Homes of Famous Women
Author: Hubbard, Elbert
Format/Binding: Leather
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
Edition: Reprint. Twenty-Third Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1903
Keywords: Memoirs;, Illustrated Books;, Women;, Biography;, TRAVEL;
Bookseller catalogs: Travel & Adventure;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
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....
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...