Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin's
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good - / Good +/No DJ as Issued
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. 83 pages. Gray cloth boards with black and red detailing, gold embossed circular image. Minor wear and tear to the extremities, some light scuffing throughout, fading from age. Half-inch closed tear on ffep. Lightly toned pages occasionally have faint foxing, but pages are clean and unmarked. Book plate from previous owner on blank preliminary page. Tight binding and square textblock. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good - / Good +/No DJ as Issued. Octavo.
Synopsis
A Little Princess is a 1904 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is a revised and expanded version of Burnett's 1888 serialized novel entitled Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school, which was published in St. Nicholas Magazine. According to Burnett, she discovered that she had missed out a great deal of things when writing the novella. She had been composing a play based on the story when she found out a lot of characters she had missed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 031163
- Title
- Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin's
- Author
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good - / Good +
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- Children's Literature, Children, Kids, Tale, Classic, 19th Century
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...