Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods
by BARBOUR, Ralph Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Brick cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board with black and white pictorial stamping and lettering. viii, 249pp, (6pp ads). Partly-color frontispiece, map, 4 full-page partly-color plates (as called for). Very good. Faint edgewear only. A tight and attractive first edition of the first title in the 4-volume "Big Four" series. Very uncommon, especially in such superb condition. Internally fine, with great Charles M. Relyea's uncredited illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 41858
- Title
- Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods
- Author
- BARBOUR, Ralph Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Children's;
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Tight
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- Fine
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