Timothy's Quest
by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Exton, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890 First edition. Ex-library,maroon-red boards with line drawing of young boy pulling a baby stroller. Gilt lettering on front, gilt lettering on spine.Corners bumped. Edgewear on top and bottom of boards. Minor stains on front and rear boards, sticker residue at bottom of front board. Front and back end papers, lightly foxed, library inscription in ink on front pastedown.Page edges are discolored. Binding is tight and interior is clean. 201 pp. A story for anbody, young and old, who cares to read it. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Seller
- A Parcel of Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- W1023
- Title
- Timothy's Quest
- Author
- Wiggin, Kate Douglas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Children's Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Children's Books;
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About the Seller
A Parcel of Books
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Exton, Pennsylvania
About A Parcel of Books
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
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