For Love Of Mary Ellen: A Romance of Childhood
by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Bros, 1912. First edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Slim 12mo. (5 1/4" x 7 1/2") in olive green cloth lettered in white and ecorated in wite and red with drawing of a pathetic looking little girl begging with a tin canand a sign reading "Pitty a Blind Widdy with Six Children'. 42pp. , illustrations by Rose Cecil O'Neill. Good, generally worn about the edges and spine extremities and rubbing to the lettering. A little girl of blue-blood descent befriends a ragged girl from poor background.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E21803
- Title
- For Love Of Mary Ellen: A Romance of Childhood
- Author
- Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- children, romance, childhood, poor,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children;
Terms of Sale
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.
About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
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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- 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...
- Rubbing
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- Poor
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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