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Penelope's Postscripts
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, published August, 1915, in original illustrated dust jacket. Clean bright yellow cloth boards with black lettering and decoration on cover, black lettering on spine. Short tear (1/4") to cloth at top spine edge. No bumping or fading. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Frontispiece color illustration with clean tissue guard. 217 pages. Dust jacket has small edge chips and short closed edge tears, publisher's price on front inside flap, list of publisher's new fiction on rear panel with ink-stamp from publisher that reads: "Due to the increased cost of manufacture some of these prices have been advanced". Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The experiences of Penelope in Vienna, Switzerland, Wales, Devon, and at home in America..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028344
- Title
- Penelope's Postscripts
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN, FIRST EDITION, PENELOPE, FICTION, OLD DUST JACKETS 1910'S, DATB
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Cloth
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- New
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