New York: Sheldon and Company, 1863. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. 16 mo. 96 pages. Hardcover in brown pebbled cloth. The binding is rubbed, has scuff marks. Corners are rubbed down to boards. Spine is sunned. Headcap/foot are chipped/frayed. Endpapers have foxing, as well as smudging. A handwritten inscription on front flyleaf. "Presented to Ida Mcrinch (sp?) by her Aunt Sarah". Some pencil marks on front flyleaf and rear pastedown. Damping at bottom of text block, shows on frontispiece. Text is foxed, has smudges, dog-eared pages. Occasional pencil marks.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 049891
Title: The New Shoes; or Productive Work by Little Hands
Author: Abbott, Jacob
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Sheldon and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1863
Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
Weight: 1.00 lbs
Keywords: 1863; Jacob Abbott; Children's Book; Antiquarian Book;
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Books;

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About Pages Past Used and Rare Books

Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Pebbled: Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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....
A.N.: The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...