Madeleine Grown Up: The Autobiography of a French Girl
by HENREY, Mrs. Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1953. First American Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition (US) of Mrs. Robert Henrey's sequel to her "The Little Madeleine." In this autobiography, the young French girl Madeleine Gal lives in London as she transitions from a young girl to a young woman and meets her future husband, Robert Henrey. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Volume wrapped in jacket with Jack Paul Maroon drawing of a London street scene to front panel. --- With mild discoloration to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket ($4.00) with several tears and chips but mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 320 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87036
- Title
- Madeleine Grown Up: The Autobiography of a French Girl
- Author
- HENREY, Mrs. Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1953
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Gilt
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