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By the Shores of Silver Lake
by Ingalls Wilder, Laura
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Stated Fourth Edition 8vo size pictorial hardcover; 260 toned, deckle edged pages with color frontispiece and some black and white illustrations throughout. Color patterned endpapers feature strawberry, leaf and flower in blue and white. Lovely vintage bookplate on fep has Robin Hood, Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and others near and open book on a bookshelf. Owner's name below. Bumped head and heel of spine and worn corners. Pages 242/243 and 246/247 look as if they were not cut by the publisher and were trimmed subsequently, with page 243 and 247 overhanging the other pages slightly. Binding appears a little loose at pages 152/153 where you can see the webbing through the stitches, but there are no loose pages. Fingermark in the margin of page 4, tiny spot in the far margin of page 75 and a small light spot on top of book and on bottom of book. . 4th. Cloth. Acceptable/No Jacket. Illus. by Sewell, Helen & Mildred Boyle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
By the Shores of Silver Lake, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, was published in 1939 and is the fifth out of nine books written in her Little House series, also known as "The Laura Years".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005510
- Title
- By the Shores of Silver Lake
- Author
- Ingalls Wilder, Laura
- Illustrator
- Sewell, Helen & Mildred Boyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 4th
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- collectible; Childrens fiction; Fiction; Early Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens Fiction; Collectible; Childrens Vintage;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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