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OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S
by RIley, James Whitcomb
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1904. First edition, first printing. Extended version of the poem written in 1888. Hard cover in original cloth. Published Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1904, first printing in first state binding (BAL 16667). Small 4to., unpaginated. Illustrated with tinted sepia plates by Howard Chandler Christy, decorated endpapers, half-title, title page, and borders by Margaret Armstrong. Olive green cloth with pictorial cover inset, gilt titles and white ornaments. Spine sunned, else very good. An attractive copy. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007475
- Title
- OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S
- Author
- RIley, James Whitcomb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Bobbs Merrill
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Sunned
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- First State
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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