Ten Girls from Dickens
by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: J. F. Taylor & Co., 1902. Hardcover, small quarto bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in white, with large pictorial pastedown on front cover. 236 pages. Deckle edged. Illustrated with 11 full page monochrome plates by George Alfred Williams. First edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. Several leaves roughly opened, with resulting marginal lose, albeit due to extra wide margins no lose to text. A clean, square, tightly bound copy. Minor flaking to white cover stamping, as per usual, but overall a superior copy of this title, usually found in horrid condition. The companion volume to "Ten Boys from Dickens"; herein depicting the author's most popular distaff creations. Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012704
- Title
- Ten Girls from Dickens
- Author
- Sweetser, Kate Dickinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. F. Taylor & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Dickensiana, Dickens Characters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dickensiana;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
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- Good+
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- Quarto
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- Jacket
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