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Billy Whiskers at the Fair
by WHEELER, F. G. [Frances Trego Montgomery]
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/good +
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1909. Later printing. Boards. Very good/good +. Arthur DeBEBIAN. Later printing. 8vo; 163 [1]pp + [2pp] publisher's ads; color pictorial boards; color embossed die-cut of a child pasted to front pastedown; chromolithograph frontispiece; 5 chromolithographed illustrated plates with titles; b&w illustrations in text; bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown, "Chas. Ream, Lancaster PA."; chipping to tail of spine and edges, light staining to fore-edge of last page, publisher's ads and rear eps; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, front flap advertises Billy Whisker Series, "postpaid at $1.00 each", rear flap advertises 5 other books from Frances Montgomery chipping to edges and stain to rear; very good minus in good plus dj. Author of the Billy Whiskers Series, Frances Montgomery (1858-1925), often used the pseudonym F. G. Wheeler for her books. A humorous story of the Treat family, the brothers, Tom, Dick and Harry, and adventures with their goat at a fair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 966
- Title
- Billy Whiskers at the Fair
- Author
- WHEELER, F. G. [Frances Trego Montgomery]
- Illustrator
- Arthur DeBEBIAN
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- The Saalfield Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Akron, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- Humor
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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Thomaston, Maine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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