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Penelope's Progress. Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1900. First published in 1897. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition Thus, with 55 illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Highly decorative green cloth binding with hearts and thistles stamped in gilt. Noted on the front cover as "Vol. II" in the series issued together. Absolutely clean text - fresh, bright, and supple; 176 pages. Previous-owner signature on the FFEP, else Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus.. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles E. Brock. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002175
- Title
- Penelope's Progress. Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Illustrator
- Charles E. Brock
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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