Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall
by Washington Irving
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Miffilin Company, 1919. Full red cloth with lovely gilt decoration and lettering. The gilding on the spine is a little muted and there is an ink stain at on the page edges with a very small black spot of ink at the bottom of the front board with just the lightest of shelfwear. Else very good. Full Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Lewis Baumer. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ziern-Hanon Galleries
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012670
- Title
- Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall
- Author
- Washington Irving
- Illustrator
- Lewis Baumer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Miffilin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1919
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Terms of Sale
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- Jacket
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