Famous Stories Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Stories of All Times For Young People
by MABIE,Hamilton Wright (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1918. Hardcover. A selection of 11 stories for children by noted authors such as Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others. Edited and with an introduction by Hamilton Wright Mabie. With black & white frontis illustration by Blanche Ostertag. (NOTE: 4 additional illustrations have apparently been removed from this copy.) --- In rust cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations gilt-stamped on spine. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A prior owner has used his rubber stamp liberally, and with inkings, underlinings and the numeral 4 inked to spine; else a firm, sound copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (18), 300 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81169
- Title
- Famous Stories Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Best Stories of All Times For Young People
- Author
- MABIE,Hamilton Wright (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1918
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Littleton, Colorado
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