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Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story
by Schreiner, Olive
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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South Pasadena, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Small hardcover with decorative cloth an cream-colored binding. Title on spine is gilt. First American edition. Light wear at corners, and small stain on rear, but otherwise in fine condition, crisp and clean. Inked gift message on front free endpage: "A.C.V. With love from C.S.H," and dated the year of publication. 12mo. 91 pp. plus several pages of ads for other books from the publisher.
Synopsis
Little Jannita sat alone beside a milk-bush. Before her and behind her stretched the plain, covered with red sand and thorny karoo bushes; and here and there a milk-bush, looking like a bundle of pale green rods tied together. Not a tree was to be seen anywhere, except on the banks of the river, and that was far away, and the sun beat on her head. Round her fed the Angora goats she was herding; pretty things, especially the little ones, with white silky curls that touched the ground.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Warwick Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95311
- Title
- Dream Life and Real Life: A Little African Story
- Author
- Schreiner, Olive
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Roberts Brothers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- The Story of an African Farm; Ralph Iron
Terms of Sale
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Returnable if not as described, with prior notice, within 30 days. We take care packaging the books you order and will gift wrap on request.
About the Seller
Warwick Books
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South Pasadena, California
About Warwick Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
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