Sandy
by RICE Alice Hegan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Charlottesville , Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Century Company, 1905. . 12mo, slate green cloth; front pictorial, printed in orange, red, white and black; small ink-stain on the fore-edge of the front cover Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (1870Ð1942). was the daughter of a successful art dealer, she was born in , Shelbyville, Kentucky in 1870. At age 16 she began serving as an aide at a mission Sunday school in a Louisville slum known as the Cabbage Patch. During this time she met the woman on whom she based the heroine of her first and most sucessful book "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch". In addition to Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, Rice wrote many other novels noted for pathos and humor. Her autobiography, The Inky Way, appeared in 1940. Rice died on Feb. 10, 1942, in Louisville.In 1910, with Louise Marshall, Rice founded the Cabbage Patch Settlement House in Louisville, which grew to include a paid staff and more than 100 volunteers
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Details
- Bookseller
- Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2795
- Title
- Sandy
- Author
- RICE Alice Hegan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: The Century Company, 1905.
- Pages
- 7 halftone illustrations; [ix] and 312
- Keywords
- JUVENILE FICTION
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Charlottesville , Virginia
About Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books
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add 5.3% sales tax.
New customers unknown to us, please send check with order. Libraries will be billed in any manner suited to their budgetary requirements.
Shipping, handling and insurance are charged at $7.50 for the first volume; $2.00 for each additional volume.
Mastercard or Visa, or by check in U.S. funds. Virginia residents please
add 5.3% sales tax.
New customers unknown to us, please send check with order. Libraries will be billed in any manner suited to their budgetary requirements.
Shipping, handling and insurance are charged at $7.50 for the first volume; $2.00 for each additional volume.
Glossary
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- 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...