A Little Maid of Quebec
by Alice Turner Curtis
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
-
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Light orange cloth boards with blue stamped text and red stamped decoration to boards and spine. Pictorial dust jacket with text protected in mylar. Sur blanc full color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to endpaper, Susan K. Gould, otherwise no other names or other markings. Light bumping to head and tail of spine; soiling to dust jacket with small check marks in pencil to back of dust jacket next to listed titles in Curtis's Little Maid series (see images). 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. Shipped through boxed USPS Priority mail.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7246
- Title
- A Little Maid of Quebec
- Author
- Alice Turner Curtis
- Illustrator
- Sandra James
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Borzoi Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1955
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Children's Literature; Women;
Terms of Sale
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
Biblio member since 2008
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
About William Chrisant & Sons' Florida Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, FABA
We are a brick & mortar store located between I95 and the Florida Turnpike. We focus on the visual aspects of books and the book as artifact. We have large Art and Graphic Art sections including haute couture magazines but also carry Architecture, Ancient & Classical History, Performing Arts and Books on Books & Antiques. We have a large selection of Antiquarian Books, Antique maps & Antique prints. Hours by chance or appointment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.