The Old Peabody Pew
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/no dj
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, First Edition,1907. Grey cloth over boards, with illustration of five persons, green and red designs on front cover and spine, that overlays illustration. Gold lettering, top is gilt. A very interesting binding. Very Good-/no dj. Alice Barber Stephens. Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856?August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten) With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor. The Old Peabody Pew is a Christmas romance of a country church. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, First Edition,1907 STATED copyright 1907 by Kate Douglas Riggs, Published October 1907, seventh impression Beautifully Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens Very Good condition, gilt and embossed decoration on the front board clean and vibrant, decorated title and frontispiece with generous green design and color frontispiece Slight pulling of spine at top, slight foxing on page 47 A very Good copy.
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- Bookseller
- YJS BOXES OF BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 763
- Title
- The Old Peabody Pew
- Author
- Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
- Illustrator
- Alice Barber Stephens
- Format/Binding
- Grey cloth over boards, with illustration of five persons, green and red designs on front cover and spine, that overlays illustr
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- no dj
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company, First Edition,1907
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- bib & bc web bkc #763
- Bookseller catalogs
- Christmas Catalog; The Kate Douglas Wiggin Collection;
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- 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....
- Gilt
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