Snow-bound, A Winter Idyl: with twenty full page Illustrations
by Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1906. First edition thus. Harcover in pictorial green cloth. Decorations by Adrian J. Iorio. Drawings by Howard Pyle, John J. Enneking & Edmund H. Garrett. Published Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1906, first printing. 8vo., green cloth with gilt titles, gilt, green and white designs, gold patterned end papers, top edge gilting, 2-color title page, printed on heavy coated stock with page designs in varying shades of blue, green, yellow and gray, duotone illustrations. Slight loss at the crown and heel, else fine, crisp, pages clean and bright. A beautiful copy.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Pyle, Howard; Garett, Edmund H. . 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007547
- Title
- Snow-bound, A Winter Idyl: with twenty full page Illustrations
- Author
- Whittier, John Greenleaf
- Illustrator
- Pyle, Howard; Garett, Edmund H.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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