The Adventures of a Brownie
by Mulock, Miss
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Whitman Publishing Co., 1924. Hardcover, brown cloth with color pictorial pastedown depicting small brownie on a galloping horse in wooded glen. 203pp. Plus four pages of publishers ads appended at rear. Illustrated 15 full color plates by Alice Carsey, plus numerous black and white drawings. Early 20th century edition of this classic children's fairy tale, with old gift inscription on front blank pre-lim dated 1924. Endpapers decorated with butterflies in subdued pinkisk red pastels. An uncommon edition in good+ or better condition. Mull exposed between frontis-piece and color titlepage, hinges slightly shaken, mild stain to upper inch and a half of spine cloth, and mild edge wear.. Else a very collectable copy with hinges intact and strong, all pages firmly attached, all plates present, and no writing or marking internally but for inscription noted above. Near very good.. Early Printing. Pictorial Paper Pastedown. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005094
- Title
- The Adventures of a Brownie
- Author
- Mulock, Miss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- Whitman Publishing Co.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- Children's Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens Books; Alibris;
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.