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Helen's Fault
by Marsh, Anne (afterwards Anne Marsh-Caldwell(
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London & New York: George Routledge & Sons. New Edition . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. This book is in poor -- but complete -- condition, needing restoration. The text block is detached from the covers, and the stitching is loose. The coloured frontispiece has come loose, and the binding shows wear and rubs at edges, with cloth missing from the top and bottom of the spine. There is a gift inscription on the front free end paper "May 17, 1977 -- Grandmother's book when she was a little girl". The original edition was published in 1853, but this is a later printing. A moralistic novel intended for young girls, it tells the story of Helen, an early or pre-teen girl, the problems her character faults (which seem minor to us) lead her into, and how she sees the error of her ways. To modern readers perhaps the most striking lesson of the book is how an adult -- like Aunt Eleanor, Helen's guardian -- can use guilt, skillfully applied and managed, to induce conformity and willing obedience.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Granny Goose Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006097
- Title
- Helen's Fault
- Author
- Marsh, Anne (afterwards Anne Marsh-Caldwell(
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christian Stories for Children;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Granny Goose Books
Biblio member since 2008
Ottawa, Ontario
About Granny Goose Books
Used and collectable children's books.
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- 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....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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