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Billy and the Major, A Sequal to Miss Minerva and William Green Hill.
by SAMPSON, Emma Speed, with illustrations by William Donahey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Reilly & Lee Company, (1918 copyright), "Twentieth edition" ca. 1946. Duodecimo (7.5" x 5.25"), 299 pages, illustrated Publisher's pictorial red cloth lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket
Light foxing mostly affecting endpapers & pastedowns, bookplate at front pastedown, initials in ink at first blank page, otherwise very good in good dust jacket, browned at the spine, with light rubbing & edge wear including small losses & short tears
"The same drollery and comedy of childhood that made "Miss Minerva" so universally popular is to be found in Billy and the Major Every lover of the earlier story will want to follow the pranks and innocent rascalities of the most delightful group of youngsters in the literature of our day." ~Excerpted from the dust jacket
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Details
- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1353
- Title
- Billy and the Major, A Sequal to Miss Minerva and William Green Hill.
- Author
- SAMPSON, Emma Speed, with illustrations by William Donahey
- Illustrator
- William Donahey
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reilly & Lee
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- (1918)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Emma Speed Sampson, Fiction, Juvenile Audience, Tennessee, Richmond, Virginia, William Donahey, Illustrated
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Children's, Illustrated;
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