An American Girl Abroad
by TRAFTON, Adeline
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1900. Hardcover. Illustrated by Miss L.B. Humphrey. Later edition of work first published in 1872, with 'American Girl's Series' on front cover. In full grey cloth-covered boards with illustration and titling on cover in green; titling and decoration in gilt and green. Tissue-protected engraved illustration at frontis as well as 5 others (with one missing plate at page 196. Volume is firm and tight, but with whitish cover blemish and slightly darkened spine. --- An account of a European trip during the latter part of the 19th century in a charming copy. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 245, (10, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75083
- Title
- An American Girl Abroad
- Author
- TRAFTON, Adeline
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Lee and Shepard Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1900
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...