Nineteen Beautiful Years
by Willard, Frances E
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, England: White Ribbon Publishing Company, 1893. the rare first English editionof this important Temperance biography, portrait frontis, tissue guarded - the poet John Greenleaf Whittier prefatory note and an introduction to the English edition by Lady Henry Somerset - 5 inserted plates, 1 in-text - 188 pages, 2 pages of ads black coated endpapers - blue denim textured gilt stamped original cloth - minor tan at the spine, contemporary signature else a fine tight copy - rare .. First Edition. Cloth. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8251
- Title
- Nineteen Beautiful Years
- Author
- Willard, Frances E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- White Ribbon Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Women's Temperance, John Greenleaf Whittier, Rare Imprint
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB
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Port Colborne, Ontario
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