Poems of Childhood
by Eugene Field; Maxfield Parrish [illus.]
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition in later issue dust jacket. Large octavo; publisher's cloth, color pictorial element mounted to front cover, in tan dust jacket with different color pictorial element mounted to front panel, top edge gilt, housed in custom linen slipcase; x,[2],199pp.; pictorial title page printed in color, eight leaves of color plates with accompanying printed tissue guards, pictorial endpapers.
Dust jacket gently soiled, expertly backed and rather extensively repaired along margins, pictorial endpapers also show substantial restoration; cloth extremities a bit rubbed, chiefly at spine ends, textblock glued down; overall a Very Good, quite presentable but still heavily restored copy. Date of jacket based on advertisement on rear panel for the publication of Captain Marryat's The Children of the New Forest (1927).
Dust jacket gently soiled, expertly backed and rather extensively repaired along margins, pictorial endpapers also show substantial restoration; cloth extremities a bit rubbed, chiefly at spine ends, textblock glued down; overall a Very Good, quite presentable but still heavily restored copy. Date of jacket based on advertisement on rear panel for the publication of Captain Marryat's The Children of the New Forest (1927).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13213
- Title
- Poems of Childhood
- Author
- Eugene Field; Maxfield Parrish [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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- Soiled
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