Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1903. 1st Edition, 3rd State . Hardcover. VG- (Very Good Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Mixed state with 2nd state publisher's binding of green cloth with light green lettering and multi color decoration; publisher's name in 1/8" letters to spine. P 325 line 9: "don't turn in at the side"; p 327 line 13: "bricks, glowing in the October sun". Printed date 1903 to title page and October 1903 to copyright page. Minor edgewear and soil; lightly bumped spine ends; fraying just barely starting at corners which are still sharp; pink flowers to spine are lightly sunned. Small soil spot to text block upper edge. Binding a little shaken but NOT cracked; hinges are sound. Interior lightly toned, with scattered minor soil from handling. Not illustrated. Previous owner name and small green pencil mark to ffep. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library.
Synopsis
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rebecca Rowena Randall goes to live with her two stern aunts in the village of Riverboro in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. She faces many trials in her young life, but comes through them with more wisdom and understanding. Wiggin wrote a sequel, New Chronicles of Rebecca.
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- Bookseller
- Albion Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001366
- Title
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Author
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG- (Very Good Minus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition, 3rd State
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston and New York
- Date Published
- 1903
- Pages
- 327
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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About the Seller
Albion Books
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Buffalo, New York
About Albion Books
Albion Books deals in fine used, out of print and rare books on a wide variety of topics. Specialties include Buffalo/New York history, science, religion, occult, and foreign language. The proprietor has been in the antiquarian book business since 2006.
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 12mo
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- Copyright page
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