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Flower Fables
by Louisa May Alcott
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Oak Point, Texas, United States
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About This Item
George W. Briggs & Co, Boston, MA, 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Brown cover is very heavily worn. The bottom 1/4 of the spine is gone, and the top 1" of the spine is loose and flapping. The gilt title and 2 images on the spine are present and in good condition. Size: 12mo - over 6 3/4" - 7 3/4" tall. 182 pp. Scattered foxing throughout. Heavy shelfwear to the cover. Bumped and rubbed. Corners are rounded. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Fiction; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 610080. .
Synopsis
Flower fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 4, 1849. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written seven years earlier for Ellen Emerson. The book was published in an edition of 1600 and apparently sold well although Alcott received only about $35 from the Boston publisher, George Briggs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lotzabooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 610080
- Title
- Flower Fables
- Author
- Louisa May Alcott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George W. Briggs & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1855
- Keywords
- BZDB26 NOISBN Fiction; Flower Fables Louisa May Alcott
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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