A Girl in Ten Thousand
by MEADE, L.T. [pseud Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith]
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hurst & Co, [ca 1903]. Small octavo (19cm). Publisher's pictorial green cloth; dustjacket; 184,[10]pp. Straight, tight and clean, very near to Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and with a few marginal chips; Very Good. In Hurst's "Home Series For Girls."
A typically wholesome girl's book of the period, one of more than 150 similar titles churned out by the enormously prolific Meade (1844-1914) between 1872 and 1915. According to adverts in Publisher's Weekly, this title was originally published in the U.S. by the small publishing firm of Thomas Whittaker in 1897, though we can locate no institutional holdings for that edition. The current edition, issued by the popular New York reprint house of Hurst & Co., is undated; based on rear advertising copy, 1903 is highly probable. In a quite lovely color pictorial binding, depicting a teenaged girl clutching a book to her breast on front cover and reading the same on the spine; jacket art mimics the same design in black and white. Extremely uncommon in dustwrapper.
A typically wholesome girl's book of the period, one of more than 150 similar titles churned out by the enormously prolific Meade (1844-1914) between 1872 and 1915. According to adverts in Publisher's Weekly, this title was originally published in the U.S. by the small publishing firm of Thomas Whittaker in 1897, though we can locate no institutional holdings for that edition. The current edition, issued by the popular New York reprint house of Hurst & Co., is undated; based on rear advertising copy, 1903 is highly probable. In a quite lovely color pictorial binding, depicting a teenaged girl clutching a book to her breast on front cover and reading the same on the spine; jacket art mimics the same design in black and white. Extremely uncommon in dustwrapper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56750
- Title
- A Girl in Ten Thousand
- Author
- MEADE, L.T. [pseud Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hurst & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [ca 1903]
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Winchester, Virginia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...