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TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS' PROGRESS A Story of the City Beautiful
by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO, 1896 Dated 1896.Deep DARK BERGUNDY cloth boards with Bright gilt and black blocked titles and decorations to spine and front panel. All edges of book block gilt.Publisher's decorative monogrammed end papers. 216pp B/W Illust. Frontis + 3 full page plates and 8 other illustrations in text all as called for. Orphans Robin and Meg have been living for three years with their Aunt Matilda on a farm in Illinois after their parents died. They hate Aunt Matilda's world and emboldened by Christian in Pilgrim's Progress set out on their own path to the City Beautiful. VG (Book- Colour rubbing to extremities of cloth and liquid splash to bottom of front panel. Ink gift insc. to half title page with previous owner name. A few finger prints to margins. Binding sound with no cracks to end papers). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale. NB.Camera flash has lightened from its deep, dark BURGUNDY colour.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120781
- Title
- TWO LITTLE PILGRIMS' PROGRESS A Story of the City Beautiful
- Author
- FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
- Illustrator
- R.W.MACBETH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- FREDERICK WARNE AND CO
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Pigrims' Progress, John Bunyan, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Childrens Books, Religious books, Christian Books, Books on line Brighton
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