Queer Little People
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1885. Title page dated 1885. Attractive copy in an ornate Victorian binding. Children's animal and nature themed stories illustrated with engravings. Brown cloth lettered and extensively decorated in gilt and black, 191 pages. Light rubbing to corners and spine ends, good hinges, firm text block, pages age-yellowed but clean, old transparent stains to the far lower margin and corner of several pages, not affecting text, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030374
- Title
- Queer Little People
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
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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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...