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The Boys and Girls of the White House
by Sage, Agnes Carr
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1909. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1909. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust jacket. First Edition decorated American trade binding. (signed binding - monogram appears to be GWH - George W. Hood). Green cloth boards with black, green, blue and white illustration of two children playing in a water garden in front of the white house. Green title box with cream lettering on cover, cream lettering and small decoration on spine. No fraying, a few very light surface scratches to cover illustration. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean front endpapers; rear endpapers have pencilled list of all U.S. president's name from George Washington through Dwight Eisenhower. Frontis illustration + eleven additional illustrations (black and white plates). 326 pages..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022284
- Title
- The Boys and Girls of the White House
- Author
- Sage, Agnes Carr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- HISTORY, U.S. PRESIDENTS, PRESIDENTS CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, WHITE HOUSE CHILDREN, FIRST EDITION, DECORATED AMERICAN TRADE BINDING, DATB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorated American Trade Binding;
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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