LULU'S TRIP ABROAD and A CROWN OF ROSES by Miss Mary de Camp Banks.
by Banks, Mary de Camp
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Albany, NY: 1887., 1887.. Very good. - Large octavo, three-quarters gilt-ruled cream vellum & blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover, in a dust wrapper. All the edges are gilt. The vellum is spotted with stains to the top corner of the front cover. The dust jacket is rubbed, darkened, stained & chipped. The front panel & flap are detached & the lower half of the jacket spine is lacking. Title, [2] leaves & 41 pages, printed on one side only. Illustrated in black & white with a portrait frontispiece & 3 plates by Walton H. Roberts, 1 plate is detached. There is some foxing to the frontispiece & occasional light soiling to the versos of the leaves. Very good in the remnants of the dust wrapper. <p>Limited edition of 112 numbered copies. The book was dictated by an eight-and-a-half year old child and "written as dictated without suggestion or alteration".
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36503
- Title
- LULU'S TRIP ABROAD and A CROWN OF ROSES by Miss Mary de Camp Banks.
- Author
- Banks, Mary de Camp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Albany, NY: 1887.
- Date Published
- 1887.
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S; CHILD AUTHOR; LULU'S TRIP ABROAD; A CROWN OF ROSES; MARY DE CAMP BANKS; ILLUSTRATED; PLATES;ILLUSTRATOR; WALTON H. ROBERTS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; LIMITED EDITION.
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- Children's & Illustrated;
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Plate
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- Vellum
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