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Love Among the Butterflies: The Secret Life of a Victorian Lady
by Fountaine, Margaret
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316289426
- ISBN 13
- 9780316289429
- Seller
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WESTBANK, British Columbia, Canada
Item Price
€20.69€18.62
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Little, Brown, and Company, Boston and Toronto, , 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. Flyleaf neatly removed.Little Brown, 1980. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Large 8 vo. Hardcover. vii, 223 pages, including list of colour plates. First American edition. White dust jacket with pictorial panel with butterflies to front, and brown and gray lettering to front and to spine; good to very good, unclipped, with some wear to top and bottom of Dust Jacket. Tan cloth boards with publisher's crest to front, quarter bound to spine panel in red cloth, with gilt lettering to spine; very good to near fine. The binding is firm and the text block is clean and unmarked. In all, a very nice copy of the American first edition, with attractive colored and black and white illustration.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001526
- Title
- Love Among the Butterflies: The Secret Life of a Victorian Lady
- Author
- Fountaine, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316289426
- ISBN 13
- 9780316289429
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company, Boston and Toronto,
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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