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The Old Peabody Pew. A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Illustrated By Alice Barber Stephens
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Miffling Company: Boston and New York, 1908. Very well preserved 8th printing with a non-personalized inscription by the author on the front free endpaper: I shouldn't wonde a mite but they prospered, an' came back every summer to set in the old pew". Gray cloth with a small illustration mounted on the front cover, lettering and decorative printing in gilt red, and green, top edge gilt, color frontis plate and other color plates, pages decoratively bordered in green, no dustjacket, likely as issued. Very good condition with some very light shelf soil, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages, no other names or markings.. Inscribed by The Author. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040440
- Title
- The Old Peabody Pew. A Christmas Romance of a Country Church
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Illustrated By Alice Barber Stephens
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Boston and New York
- Place of Publication
- Houghton Miffling Company
- Date Published
- 1908
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- EDWARDIAN FICTION COLOR PLATES SIGNED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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