Dorothy Q: Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party and Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1893. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, first issue (with 'flashed' for 'clashed' on page 50, line 8). Publisher's full gray cloth, silvers lettering and decorationj on spine and covers, green endpapers, top edge silver. Profusely illustrated with plates, drawings, head and tail-pieces by Howard Pyle. . Brief gift inscription on preliminary page, otherwise unmarked. Tight and square. Boards very slightly shelf-worn, else fine. A lovely copy. NEAR FINE.. Plates and Drawings. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 131 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6648
- Title
- Dorothy Q: Together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party and Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle
- Author
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell
- Illustrator
- Howard Pyle (1853-1911)
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Howard, Pyle;, Illustrated Books;, Books;, Americana
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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