Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life
by JACKSON, Helen Hunt
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Hardcover. Helen Hunt Jackson's semi-autobiographical novel is centered around young Nelly and friends and first appeared in 1878. This 1937 Little, Brown edition features 3 of the original 4 color plates with illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards (the image of yodeling boy is missing), and endpapers illustrated in black & white. --- In black cloth-covered boards with that missing boy yodeler's illustration pasted to the cover. Gilt-stamped spine titling. --- A Good only copy: the leaves are quite soft and thus fragile, with tears to half title page. Back cover with soiling, and spine gilding has dulled, else a solid, intact copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); (10), 332 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80487
- Title
- Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life
- Author
- JACKSON, Helen Hunt
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1937
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Littleton, Colorado
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