Skippack School, Being the Story of Eli Schrawder and of one Christopher Dock, schoolmaster about the year 1750
by DE ANGELI, Marguerite
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
[Garden City, New York]: Junior Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Marguerite DE ANGELI. Marguerite DE ANGELI, illustrator. First edition. 8vo square; [88]pp; glazed brown buckram over board, stamped line drawing of a young boy with a book to front, title and author to spine; yellow pictorial endpapers; pictorial title page; color and b&w illustrations throughout; small crease to bottom corner title page; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of $2.00 on front flap, rear flap lists other books by the author, light chipping to head and tail of spine, soiling and age-toning of dust jacket; near fine in vg dust jacket. Baumgarten 58. Charming illustrations by the author and illustrator, Marguerite de Angeli (1889-1987). In this book she recounts the historical story of Christopher Dock, a humanist, at the Mennonite School near Skippack, Pennsylvania.
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- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1205
- Title
- Skippack School, Being the Story of Eli Schrawder and of one Christopher Dock, schoolmaster about the year 1750
- Author
- DE ANGELI, Marguerite
- Illustrator
- Marguerite DE ANGELI
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Junior Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- [Garden City, New York]
- Date Published
- 1939
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Buckram
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- Chipping
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- Tail
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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