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Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good. No date. Circa 1900. Pictorial paper-covered boards with multi-color illustration showing two children riding bicycles. Brown cloth spine. Boards are rubbed and edgeworn; corners rounded; soiling on rear board. Nice gift inscription (dated 1903) on ffep. Pages are toned, but generally clean with good edges and square corners. Color frontispiece and many b/w illustrations throughout. 97 unnumbered pages. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Part of the M. A. Donohue's Happy Home Series. A collection of short tales and verses by a variety of authors. The pieces include Willy's Horse, What Happened to Baby's Mamma, The Naughty Cat, Seeing the Elephant, Dolly's Washing-Day, Jacob's Mishap, The Fawn Chased by Dogs, Pussy Whitenose, Rules for Dolls, The Boy Afraid of His Shadow, Owen and His Squirrel, and many more.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011224
- Title
- Vacation Joys
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- children's, illustrated,
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Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....