Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. [A Selection with Foreword by Helen Martin]
by Alcott, Louisa M. (Martin, Helen; editor. Stevens, Beatrice; illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG-/NO jacket. (front free endpaper torn out, spine sunned, cover edges lightly rubbed. text clean/unmarked, covers & sewn b
- Seller
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Beverly Hills, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Boston Little, Brown 1929 HARDCOVER. VG-/NO jacket. (front free endpaper torn out, spine sunned, cover edges lightly rubbed. text clean/unmarked, covers & sewn binding sound. top edge yellow tinting soiled. no library markings) 8vo. Colored frontispiece + 6 full page black & white drawings & vignettes by Beatrice Stevens. Reprinted November, 1929. Published October, 1929. Full blue cloth, gilt lettered front & spine.
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- Bookseller
- Booktopia
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22062110
- Title
- Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. [A Selection with Foreword by Helen Martin]
- Author
- Alcott, Louisa M. (Martin, Helen; editor. Stevens, Beatrice; illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG-/NO jacket. (front free endpaper torn out, spine sunned, cover edges lightly rubbed. text clean/unmarked, covers & sewn b
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1929
- Pages
- xvi. + 354pp.
- Keywords
- Illustrated Juvenile Childrens Literature Books, Louisa May Alcott Short Stories, Beatrice Stevens, 19th Century American Childrens Literature
- Size
- 8vo.
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About the Seller
Booktopia
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Beverly Hills, Florida
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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