Patty-Bride

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1918-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, Reprint 1918 (actual printing was probably in the 1930s) Grosset & Dunlap 304 pages. Very Good+, in a VG DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to blue cloth boards with black titles - corners sharp. Minor tiny white spotting to spine of book. Minor shelf/edge wear and light foxing to original silver DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked. Red and white illustrated endpapers and red topstain. Front endpapers have a list titled "hit parade" that the previous owner left in and it left a shadow. Cover portrait of Patty by Edward C. Caswell on the front board is quite bright. Colors are still vibrant. Rear inside cover has the bookstore stamp of the famous and sadly long gone Hudson's Book Store which was a part of the Hudson's Department Store of Detroit, Michigan. Rear flap of DJ lists Judy Bolton title - The Voice in the Suitcase which was printed in 1935. This is number 16 of 17 in the Patty Fairchild series. Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American author and poet. She wrote more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. After 1910, she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Very respectable vintage copy in original DJ. LOC SSS-10