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HELEN'S BABIES: With Some Account of Their Ways Innocent, Crafty, Angelic, Impish, Witching, and Repulsive. By Their Latest Victim.
by John Habberton
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Los Angeles , California, United States
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About This Item
[JOHN HABBERTON]. HELEN'S BABIES. WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR WAYS INNOCENT, CRAFTY, ANGELIC, IMPISH, WITCHING, AND REPULSIVE. BY THEIR LATEST VICTIM. Loring, Publisher, Boston, 1876. First Edition, early printing. Condition: Good / Fair. In original green cloth, with the original Victorian decorative cloth covers, tooled illustrations and type, black and gilt type with gilt decorations on front cover, spine. Previous owner's inscriptions and stamp to endpapers with shelf wear, mild soiling to covers, rubbing to edge extremities, corners, spine ends, hinges starting, large chip to lower left of cover and tail of spine typical of vintage books of this age, a scarce book in any condition. Pages are generally clean and binding tight. Classic 19th Century fiction, rare collectible. 206 [6] pages 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Astro Trader Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1000-472
- Title
- HELEN'S BABIES
- Author
- John Habberton
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Loring
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1876
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- John Habberton
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Children's and YA (Young Adult);
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Astro Trader Books
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About the Seller
Astro Trader Books
Biblio member since 2020
Los Angeles , California
About Astro Trader Books
Astro Trader Books was founded in 2010 selling camera manuals, then branched into antiquarian, modern firsts, science fiction, fantasy, horror genres and pulp fiction.
Glossary
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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