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Antiquarian Children's Books

Item Details

A collection of antiquarian children’s books. This includes four books published in 1900 by the Henry Altemus Company in Philadelphia. Included are Our Soldier Boy by G. Manville Fenn, The Little Skipper by G. Manville Fenn, The Christmas Fairy by John Strange Winter, and Molly the Drummer Boy by Harriet T. Comstock. All are clothbound hardcovers with gilt and pictorial labels to the front covers.

Binding Hardcover
Number of Books assortment

Condition

- age discoloration and some foxing to each; inscription to the endpapers for each; fading to some of the pictorial labels; bindings are fairly loose, damage along the caps, tails, and spines for each.

Dimensions

6.5" W x 8.5" H x 0.25" D

- measures one; all approximately the same size.

Item #

16IND130-098

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