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Sonny's Father
by McEnery Stuart, Ruth
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No dust jacket.
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Century Co, 1910. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/No dust jacket.. Jessie Willcox Smith & others. The Century Co., New York, 1910. First edition printed October 1910. Book Condition: Very good with only minor shelf wear. Spine very slightly cocked. Pale green boards still bright and clean with just a little colour fade and some light soiling. Previous owner's name in pencil to ffep with a date of 1900. Top edge gilt still bright. Internally very clean. No dust jacket. Eleven black & white plates on gloss paper with illustrations by Jessie Willcox Smith, Peter Newell and others. Titles stamped in gold with black & dark green decorations of acorns and oak leaves. Ruth McEnery Stuart (1849-1917) was a very popular American author of short stories and novels, set in the South and using local dialect. This is a sequel to her most famous work "Sonny".
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- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1303559
- Title
- Sonny's Father
- Author
- McEnery Stuart, Ruth
- Illustrator
- Jessie Willcox Smith & others
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Century Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- American Literature,Jessie Wilcox Smith,Peter Newell
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Ariadne Books
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Shelf Wear
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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