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Rare and modern books

Coolidge

WHAT KATY DID. A Story

Roberts Brothers, 1873

165.00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1873
Place of printing
Boston
Author
Coolidge
Publishers
Roberts Brothers
Edition
SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF AN EXTREMELY POPULAR WORK IN ITS TIME,
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

Very Scarce First Edition. With illustrations by Addie Ledyard being a charming engraved frontispiece and three engraved plates, also with woodcut initials at the start of each chapter. 8vo, publisher's original royal blue cloth, the upper cover with gilt lettering and a design featuring cattails and grasshoppers in gilt and blind, the spine gilt lettered within elaborate gilt tooling. 274, [2] pp. A very nice copy of this rather scarce first edition, the text is clean and fresh, free of any staining or foxing, the hinges are sound though one of two of the signatures are a bit shaken, the cloth is bright with nice gilt, some rubbing and a few abrasions at the tips and extremities.