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Engines and Brass Bands: Waubonsie Tales
by Olive Beaupre Miller
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Dearborn, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Hardcover, Stated First Edition November 1933 Book House for Children/Doubleday Chicago/New York 376 pages. Very Good+ in a Good+ DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to brown cloth boards with gilt titles and accents-corners sharp. Moderate shelf/edge wear, chipping and some soiling to unclipped DJ, spine of DJ lightly darkened - now in mylar. No previous owner markings-all pages are clean and crispwith a hint of toning to the edges. Over 30 tales of growing up in the American Midwest of the 1890's (specifically, the town of Waubansie, Illinois) Over 50 b/w illustrations; endpaper map of the town and jacket design by Mariel Wilhoite. LOC SSE-01
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- Bookseller
- Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170208001
- Title
- Engines and Brass Bands: Waubonsie Tales
- Author
- Olive Beaupre Miller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company
- Date Published
- 1933-01-01
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
Biblio member since 2007
Dearborn, Michigan
About Eyebrowse Books - MWABA
We are an online, phone and snail mail bookseller.Our books don't need batteries or a license to read. Selling books on-line since 2004. CABS graduate in 2009. Member MWABA since 2013. Excellent customer service, quick shipping, and an assortment of great books. The majority of our inventory is non-fiction general stock with an emphasis on transportation (air, rail, auto), exploration, and military history. We also have hundreds of Vintage Paperbacks that are for the most part not listed online. Eyebrowse Books is always looking for and buying good quality books. We may be reached via e-mail, phone and snail mail. I sincerely appreciate all our customers, new as well as returning ones, and strive every day to present them the most interesting books I can find.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- LOC
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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