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A Little Miss Nobody
by Amy Bell Marlowe
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1914). Hardcover with gray cloth boards, blue and black decorations and titles, 322 pages + 6 pages "Something About Amy Bell Marlowe and Her Books for Girls" + 2 pages of publisher's advertisements. No dust jacket, if issued. Endpapers discolored; pages toned, small slip of notebook paper with "June 1, 1945" affixed to FFEP, otherwise unmarked. Solidly bound; hinges a bit loose; spine sunned, with a slight lean. Covers age worn, with a couple of small white stains on front cover, corners bumped. 1" closed tear at fore edge on page 84; 1/2" closed tears at top edges of pages 191-194.
ABOUT THE BOOK: Nancy Nelson is an orphan who receives money from a lawyer for her needs but she hasn't any idea who she is and where she came from. She's "A Little Miss Nobody." This is the story of Nancy's search for her identity as aided by friends she sets out to find the truth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amy Bell Marlowe was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer syndicate from 1914 to 1933.
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Details
- Bookseller
- heytotobooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 02282401MF
- Title
- A Little Miss Nobody
- Author
- Amy Bell Marlowe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Pages
- 322
- Size
- 7.5 x 5 x 1.25 inches
- Weight
- 1.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Vintage Juvenile Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Vintage;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Kansas City, Missouri
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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