As Others See Her, An Englishwoman's Impressions Of The American Woman In War Time
by Burnett-Smith, A. (Annie Shepherd Swan)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. HB. Quarter green cloth over green paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine and green lettering on front cover, 12mo, 182 pp. Numbers stamped top of rear endpaper only marks in book, binding tight. Covers show light edge wear, gilt lettering bright. Swan (1859-1943) was a popular Victorian writer of romantic fiction. During World War I she worked for the Ministry of Food, traveled to America to lecture on war efforts, and wrote this book on her observations. Book condition VG, lacking the dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EO5966
- Title
- As Others See Her, An Englishwoman's Impressions Of The American Woman In War Time
- Author
- Burnett-Smith, A. (Annie Shepherd Swan)
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1919
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War I;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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