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The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
by Vandercook, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company. 1913. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in a Fair dustjacket [now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve]. The dustjacket has piece missing from lower edge of spine, chips to corners and top of spine and is generally age-toned. Gift inscription to front free endpaper (dated 1914). Black & white illustrations. 256 pages. A novels centred around the American Camp Fire Girls organisation, a sister organisation to the Boy Scouts and which portrays many of Camp Fire's activities, rituals, and ceremonies, including their summer camps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Synopsis
From the book:"Oh dear, I do wish some one would invent something new for girls!" she exclaimed, although there was no one in the room to hear her. "It seems to me that all girls do nowadays is to imitate boys. We play their games, read their old books and even do their work, when all the time girls are really wanting girl things. I agree with King Solomon: 'The thing that hath been, it is that which, shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.' At least not for girls!" Then with a laugh at her own pessimism, Betty, like Hamlet, having found relief in soliloquy, jumped up from her chair and crossing her room pressed the electric button near the fireplace until the noise of its ringing reverberated through the big, quiet house.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB318384
- Title
- The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill
- Author
- Vandercook, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Adelaide Booksellers
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Daw Park, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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