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Dave Philbrick: Volume 4 in the Rock Cove, the Cousins Who Lived There Series
by Nineteenth Century Series. [Robbins, Sarah Stuart]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Robert Carter & Brothers / Leonard, 1889 183 pgs + 8pgs of ads. Title page and ads reference Robert Carter as publisher, but Leonard on the spine. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt, wear to extremities, 2 corner creases, stray ink marks on one page and an old price in pen on endpaper. The fourth of six volumes in the Rock Cove Series; stories set in a fictional New England town. This volume about a good-natured and generous young man named Dave Philbrick. Illustrated with a frontis by E Whitney (Elias James Whitney?). Scarce.. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E Whitney (Elias James Whitney?). 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010228
- Title
- Dave Philbrick: Volume 4 in the Rock Cove, the Cousins Who Lived There Series
- Author
- Nineteenth Century Series. [Robbins, Sarah Stuart]
- Illustrator
- E Whitney (Elias James Whitney?)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Robert Carter & Brothers / Leonard
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 12mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Juvenile Series, 19th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile Series;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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About the Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
Biblio member since 2004
Torrington, Connecticut
About E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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