BERTHA'S CHRISTMAS VISION: An Autumn Sheaf
by Alger, Horatio
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Brown, Bazin, and Company, 1856. 1st edition. Cloth. Good +. 1st edition, 1st printing. A Good + copy. 8vo., viii, 248 pp., with wood-engraved frontispiece and engraved title page. Bound in the publisher's brown, blind-stamped cloth, with title on the spine in gilt. Spine lettering fading; edge wear, small loss of cloth at the spine's crown and foot. Occasional dots of foxing, but the text is generally clean. Binding holding firm. Author's first book, a collection of shorts, written when he was 24. His most famous work, RAGGED DICK, would set his theme of a poor boy, going from "Rags to Riches" by working hard and doing the right thing.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25157
- Title
- BERTHA'S CHRISTMAS VISION: An Autumn Sheaf
- Author
- Alger, Horatio
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Brown, Bazin, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- juvenile, americana
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Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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