Journeys Through Bookland
by Sylvester, Charles H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago: Bellows Reeve, 1913. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. Fifth Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 11 volumes with the guide, a beautiful set with the gilt decorative backstrip and title with decorations on the covers.The preface to the fifth edition has a date of April. 1913 Colored frontispiece on each volume. Volume 1's backstrip is lightly rubbed. The guide book has a stain from an old bookmark; the stain being on the blank front free page. I include that bookmark as it is nice. A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is on the red bookmark..
Synopsis
Journeys Through Bookland , published in 1901 by Bellows-Reeve Company, contains 10 volumes of poems, myths, Bible stories, fairy tales, and excerpts from children's novels, as well as a guide to the series. It has been lauded as ‘a new and original plan for reading, applied to the world’s best literature for children.’
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Details
- Bookseller
- Good Old Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000011073
- Title
- Journeys Through Bookland
- Author
- Sylvester, Charles H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Fifth Edition
- Publisher
- Bellows Reeve
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sylvester, Charles H.,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Juvenile;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Good Old Books
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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