An Alphabet of Celebrities
by Herford, Oliver
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1899. First edition, 1899. An ABC book for adults, with verses on the left, humorous woodcuts on the right, pages printed with decorative borders in black, initials and lines in vermilion (orange). Gray hardcover with gray cloth spine, about 9.5" tall. Covers rubbed at the extremities, good hinges, sound but not tight text block (no loosened pages but some separation visible between sections), bookplate on preliminary blank, pages clean with just a tiny bit of finger soil to a few outer margins. Includes such celebrities or historical figures as: Ibsen, Dante, Darwin, Montaigns, Oliver, Omar, Rembrandt, Undine, Godiva, etc. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034326
- Title
- An Alphabet of Celebrities
- Author
- Herford, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Small, Maynard and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1899
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- ABC BOOK ALPHABET HISTORICAL FIGURES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
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East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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