Games of Patience for One or More Player by Miss Whitmore Jones; Illustrated [1st, 2nd, and 3rd series]
by Jones, Mary Whitmore
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1894. Hardcover. Good +. Second edition. 92, [2], 88, [2], 84, 12, [4] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; red, light green, and black decoration on spine and front board. Red-brown patterned endpapers. No year of publication; includes publisher's catalog 160 C 12/94 [1894]. Contains the first, second, and third series, and an index for all three series. Publisher's catalogue and four pages of general advertisements follows text. Each game of patience (solitaire in the United States) has directions and a diagram of card layout. In Good+ Condition: edges rubbed; lower corners starting to fray; cloth just starting to split at ends of joints; back hinge weak; "1/4" in ink on title page; a clean and solid copy.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002652
- Title
- Games of Patience for One or More Player by Miss Whitmore Jones; Illustrated [1st, 2nd, and 3rd series]
- Author
- Jones, Mary Whitmore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- L. Upcott Gill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports & Games; Women Writers;
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Classic Books and Ephemera
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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- Good+
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- Hinge
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- Cloth
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