The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
by HARTE Bret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus,, n.d. [1886]. Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, coloured title-vignette and 26 coloured illustrations in the text , text mildly age-marked; original oatmeal pictorial cloth, upper and lower boards with gilt frame border blocked in colours with different vignettes and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip lettered in black, all edges gilt, green endpapers, very neatly recased, covers mildly age-soiled as often else a bright, firm copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17909
- Title
- The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
- Author
- HARTE Bret
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus,
- Date Published
- n.d. [1886]
- Keywords
- childrens, juvenilia, kate greenaway, harte, pirate isle, bret harte, children's, juvenilia, the, queen, the, pirate, isle
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