The First Nantucket Tea Party
by Tittle, Walter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, waterstain to spine, faint waterstains to top margins of text.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday, Page & Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, waterstain to spine, faint . waterstains to top margins of text.. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth binding with color illustration mounted to front boards. Top edges gilt. Unpaginated. Beautifully illustrated story of an 18th century Nantucket family who celebrate one of their sailor-trader relative's return from China with a tea party. Color plates, silhouettes, color border designs. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50642
- Title
- The First Nantucket Tea Party
- Author
- Tittle, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, waterstain to spine, faint waterstains to top margins of text.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1907
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books, Tea Parties, 1900s Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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