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THE TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE: A SKETCH
by HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (TRANSLATED BY MARY HOWITT)
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,, 1847 Publisher's original decorative blocked cloth with gilt titles to spine, 180 x 115 mm approx, viii + 298 pp + 32 page publisher's catalogue dated April 1847. First UK translation 1st printing. (Preface by M.H. dated June 1847). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG ( Book- block re sewn on two tapes with new mull, new cloth spine with remnants of original retained. Original front paste down retained to preserve ink gift insc. dated Christmas 1847 with book plate of Adolphus William Ward Master of Peterhouse under and later family book plate of Sir John Barnes (Son in Law) to free front end paper).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126227
- Title
- THE TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE: A SKETCH
- Author
- HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN (TRANSLATED BY MARY HOWITT)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition UK
- Publisher
- LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1847
- Keywords
- Hans Christian Andersen, The True Story of my life, Autobiographies, Mary Howitt Translator, Jenny Lind, Literary Biographies, Children's Stories, Christmas Books, Fairy stories, Danish Authors,
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