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Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katharine Gibson - 1901

by Eva Katharine Gibson

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Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katharine Gibson - 1901

Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch

by Eva Katharine Gibson

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Chicago, IL: Robt. Smith Printing Co., 1901. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mabel Tibbitts. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, blue cloth boards decorated in all sides. Exterior shows spotting and soiling along with edge and corner bumps/wear. Spine is a bit sunned. The internal binding of the text portion of the pages is good but hinges at both the front and rear boards are cracked, which is why the book has the lower condition grade. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings, no handwriting found. Pages are toned due to age and spotting and minor foxing spots are present.

  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Mabel Tibbitts
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Robt. Smith Printing Co.
  • Place of Publication Chicago, IL
  • Date Published 1901
  • Pages 256
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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Zauberlinda the Wise Witch

by Gibson, Eva Katharine

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  • good
  • Hardcover
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1901. Hardcover. Good. 1901 pictoral Hardcover Good condition very nice first edition loose binding but good, neat illustrations d6 blue picture cover No dj wear at corners some pages light stains pictures by Mabel Tibbitts Contents: Annie's Home, Annie's Friends and Pets, The Rescue of the Youn Prarie Dog, Pete Pumpernickel tells about Fairies, Annie's seventh Birthday, The Prarie Dog Sings a Funny Song, Annie is taken to Gnome King's Palace, etc....255 pgs Young Adult Fiction Holidays Halloween
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Zauberlinda the Wise Witch

by Eva Katharine Gibson

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  • Hardcover
  • first
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Used
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First edition
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Hardcover
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New York, New York, United States
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GIBSON, Eva Katharine. Zauberlinda The Wise Witch. Chicago: Robert Smith Printing Co [1901]. 8vo, 258pp. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in yellow and orange. Pictorial endpapers with fixed sheets printed with an orange background; illustrations in one-color on every page with text in black. Light rubbing to spine ends and lower corners, covers slightly so, spine lightly sunned, a few pages slightly soiled in margins, else an unusually clean, tight copy.
First edition. A very early Oz imitation, being released just a year after the publication of Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which had been the best-selling children's book of 1900). The book features a style imitating the format of the first Oz novel, with line drawings printed in a variety of colors appearing over and around the text of the novel, just as in The Wizard. Gibson's tale is also very reminiscent of Baum's, telling of an isolated little girl on the prairie who is transported into a realm of magic and danger, only to have to find her… Read More
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