Mother Carey's Chickens

Wiggin, Kate Douglas; Stevens, Alice Barber (Illustrator)

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, Boston/New York, 1911

Beschreibung

Timeless story about a single mother's love for her "brood" of children & how they survive despite the challenges of poverty, in 356 pages with hand-tinted frontispiece + 9 internal illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from Sept 1911, this hardcover small octavo has soft olive-green cloth-covered boards stamped with a green & white border & design & gilt lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & bright, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white & unmarked save for old bookstore sticker & stamp to front endpapers, light foxing & soil to fore edge. Modest tanning. Front tissue guard is intact, with a large foxes spot replicated on underlying border of frontis. Mild rubbing to extremities & slight bumping to corners & spine tips. The price-clipped DJ is VG, with small chips at upper corners, rubbing to extremities, & slight paper loss to head of spine & top edge of back over; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 024212

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Mother Carey's Chickens

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, Boston/New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1911

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Stephens, Alice Barber

Zustand: Very Good+

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Auflage: First Edition First Printing