Larkspur
by Abbott, Jane D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Good dust jacket. ©1919. Reprint. Hardcover. 261 + ads p. 19 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with stamped illustration of children skating on upper board. Light wear to the corner tips. Spine ends slightly faded. Top edge of text block is dusty. Prize inscription on front free endpaper. Otherwise, inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is worn along edges, with a few tiny tears and a hole to the front flap fold. Spine is darkened. Some tiny x's marked on reverse side. Soiled overall, but front panel still presentable. The story of three girls, including a French orphan, who join the Girl Scouts and have a number of adventures. Ilustrated with a colour frontispiece and three black and white plates. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4224
- Title
- Larkspur
- Author
- Abbott, Jane D
- Illustrator
- Harriet Roosevelt Richards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ©1919
- Keywords
- Girl Scouts
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.