Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1892. 288pp., tissue-guarded, b/white, art-illustrated (Jessie McDermott) frontispiece, plus an unpaginated publisher's promotional section at rear (variously illustrated by Addie Ledyard, Mary A. Hallock, Ellen Oakford, Jessie McDermott, A.G.Plympton, and others). Book clean. Lightly shaken spine, nominally cocked. Decorated ochre cloth boards frayed on foredge corners, plus head and heel of gilt titled backstrip. General colour flecking and abrading. Black endpapers, a name (written in black) on front pastedown. Text-block randomly splotched and finger-marked. Rear free endpapers mildly creased. Probably the second printing (First: 1891), "In The High Valley" is the fifth and last volume in the 'Katy Did' series. 10 chapters. Book weight approx. 500g. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st Thus.. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good.

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Bookseller: Diversity Books, IOBA (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005546
Title: IN THE HIGH VALLEY
Author: Coolidge, Susan
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Edition: 1st Thus.
Publisher: Roberts Brothers
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Date Published: 1892
Keywords: NOISBN, JUVENILE FICTION, COOLIDGE, SUSAN, SERIES: KATY DID
Bookseller catalogs: Juvenile Fiction;

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