DOROTHY Q: Together With A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. 132 pp. Original black cloth covers, very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents very nice.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Howard Pyle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18396LIT
- Title
- DOROTHY Q: Together With A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party & Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Illustrator
- Howard Pyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- LITERATURE FICTION GENERAL CHILDRENS BOOKS JUVENILE CHILDREN STORIES DOROTHY Q BALLAD OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY GRANDMOTHER S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE AUTHOR S HOLMES OLIVER WENDELL 1809 1894 ILLUSTRATED HOWARD PYLE 1853 1911 LITERARY WORKS
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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