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Peter Saunders Presents the First 30 Years of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, 1952-1982 [Thirty]

By: [Christie, Agatha] Saunders, Peter

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Theatreprint, Ltd.: 1983

Seller ID: 2296579

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

3rd printing. Very minor general wear. 1983 Stapled Binding. 55 pp. A history of the first thirty years of Agatha Christie's murder mystery play, The Mousetrap, which first opened in London in 1952. Includes numerous color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations, an introductory comment that is probably by either Peter Saunders or the publisher; a biographical sketch of Christie by Mathew Prichard; a biographical sketch of Peter Saundres by Harold Hobson; an essay on thirty years of the stage production by J.C. Trewin; and a chronological account of each year with headshots of the ca...
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The Children of Dickens (Scribner Illustrated Classics for Younger Readers)

By: [Dickens, Charles]; Crothers, Samuel McChord

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1925

Seller ID: 2284880

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1943 printing. Includes original jacket. Pencil gift note on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with 1/2 inch closed tear to corner. 1925 Hard Cover. vi, [2], 259, [1] pp. 8vo. Retellings of portions of books by Charles Dickens, featuring such memorable characters as Mr. Micawber, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and the Jellyby family. Includes background information on the novels, and color plates by Jessie Willcox Smith.
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Profile by Gaslight: An Irregular Reader about the Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

By: [Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan]; Smith, Edgar W.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1944

Seller ID: 2276798

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. No jacket, very faint odor of smoke, spine very faintly toned. 1944 Hard Cover. xv, 312 pp. CONTENTS: Sherlock Holmes the Legend; Sherlock Holmes the Man; About Dr. Watson; The Baker Street Scene; The Baker Street Irregulars.
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Emerson Year Book: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: [Emerson, Ralph Waldo]; A.R.C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company: 1901

Seller ID: 2273752

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Page ridges and endpapers lightly foxed. 1901 Small Hard Cover. 157 pp. Selections for every day in the year from the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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The Pecorone of Ser Giovanni, in Three Volumes

By: [Fiorentino], Ser Giovanni; Waters, W.G.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Privately Printed for Members of the Society of Bibliophiles: 1898

Seller ID: 2272693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First English translation. Limited edition, #293 of 1000 sets. Spines toned. 1898 Hard Cover. Complete in three hardcover volumes. Grey cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. Translated into English from the original Italian by W.G. Waters. Illustrations by E.R. Hughes. A collection of fifty stories written by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, the original title of which (Il Pecorone) translated as The Simpleton. Fiorentino wrote the stories in the 14th century (though they would not be published until the mid-16th century), and they later became a source for William Shakespeare's The Merc...
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Art Gems for the Home and Fireside

By: [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins] Mrs. Charles Walter Stetson

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid, Publishers: 1890

Seller ID: 2305816

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

1890 printing. Front and end matter foxed, some light spotting on front board, ink gift note on front endpaper. 102 pp. Grey cloth, gilt titles, black decorations on front board. A collection of engravings with commentary by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the noted utopian feminist and author of The Yellow Wallpaper. This was her first work, and is published under the name Mrs. Charles Walter Stetson, perhaps to leverage his reputation in the art world (Davis, Charlotte Gilman: A Biography). Stetson was her first husband, to whom she was married for only four years. She would later take the name of...
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The Grandma Moses Storybook [Story Book]

By: [Grandma Moses]; Kramer, Nora; Kallir, Otto

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1961

Seller ID: 2307410

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Multiple tears to jacket edges. Spine base bumped. 1961 Large Hardcover. 141 pp. For boys and girls. A treasure trove of stories and poems by 28 outstanding writers, including Rachel Field, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and Robert Frost, Illustrated with paintings by the much-loved American artists.
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The Greville Diary, Including Passages Hitherto Withheld from Publication, in Two Volumes

By: [Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke]; Wilson, Philip Whitwell

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company: 1927

Seller ID: 2291167

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First thus. Top edge of second volume lightly bumped in two spots, small dealer bookplate on rear endpaper of each volume. 1927 Hard Cover. xiv, [2], 568, [2]; xiii, [3], 602 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt titles, top edges gilt. Frontispieces of Queen Adelaide and Queen Victoria, various portrait plates in text. A detailed journal originally published in three large parts comprising eight total volumes. The first part, published in 1874, was widely suppressed after Queen Victoria and others expressed outrage at its tone and content. It would not be republished until the original manuscri...
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Hammett's Moral Vision: The Most Influential Investigation of Dashiell Hammett's novels Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, and The Thin Man (The Ace Performer Collection)

By: [Hammett, Dashiell]; Thompson, Goerge J. Rhino; Nolan, William F.; Emery, Vince

Price: $15.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Vince Emery Productions: 2007

Seller ID: 2303192

ISBN: 097258983X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2007 Hard Cover. 246 pp. Previously only available serialized over seven issues of The Armchair Detective magazine, this examination is the single most influential book-length analysis of Dashiell Hammetts novels. Spanning all sections of his career, the book discusses five novels: The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, and The Thin Man. Detailed analysis shows how the author and his work changed over time. Each novel is discussed in its own chapter with comparative criticism, and there is a list of resources for further reading and research. Additionall...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

By: [Holmes, Oliver Wendell]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and Company: 1858

Seller ID: 1863209

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition, second state. Minor loss from spine head, stationer's stamp on front flyleaf. 1858 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 373 pp. Original brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles & decorations. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century, he is considered a member of the Fireside Poets. His most famous prose works are the Breakfast-Table series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfas...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [Every Man His Own Boswell] (Masterpieces of American Literature

By: [Holmes, Oliver Wendell]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2284246

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

Blank publisher bookplate laid in. Minimal wear to spine bands and corners. 1981 Full-Leather. xvi, 280, [2] pp. Tall 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introduction by Van Wyck Brooks, color frontispiece and monochrome illustrations by R.J. Holden. A collection of essays that originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, and are credited with the positive response that magazine enjoyed during its early years. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 October 7, 1894) was an American physic...
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Douglas: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden

By: [Home, John]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Printed for G. Hamilton & J. Balfour, W. Gray & W. Peter.: 1757

Seller ID: 2305603

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Edinburgh edition (ESTC N388), published simultaneously with the London edition. Engraved illustrated mounted inside front wrapper. First two pages and last page lightly spotted and creased, small internal tear to epilogue page. 1757 Soft Cover. 74, [2] pp. 8 1/8 x 5 1/2. Plain olive wrappers, not contemporary. It appears likely this was trimmed from a quarto edition, as the margin along the binding edge is considerably smaller than the fore edge margin. This production was Edmund Kean's acting debut, and the play was admired by David Hume (the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otw...
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The Works of Horace (Harper's Classical Library)

By: [Horace]; Smart, C.; Buckley, Theodore Alois

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, American Book Company: 1860

Seller ID: 2208117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No publisher date (circa late 1800s), spine lightly toned, very small spot to page ridge. 1860 Hard Cover. xi, 325 pp. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words. Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses ...
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Tales of a Traveller

By: [Irving, Washington]; Crayon, Geoffrey

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1891

Seller ID: 2285881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled. 1891 Hard Cover. vi, 530, [4] pp. 16mo.The author's revised edition, complete in one volume. Cream cloth spine over mint cloth boards, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, floral endpapers. Engraved title page by Copeland, frontispiece by Frank T. Merrill. A collection of short stories by the author of Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, etc. Includes: STRANGE STORIES BY A NERVOUS GENTLEMAN: The Great Unknown; The Hunting-Dinner; The Adventure of My Uncle; The Adventure of My Aunt; The Bold Dragoon, or The Adventure of My Grandfather; The Adventure of the...
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Illustrations of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: [Irving, Washington]; Darley, Felix O. C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: U.S., The American Art-Union: 1850

Seller ID: 2307407

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Stained, some loss to spine head, two one-inch tears to spine base. 1850 Large Hardcover. 16 pages of text. 6 pages of illustrations designed and etched by Felix O. C. Darley.
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Wild Life in a Southern County

By: [Jefferies, Richard]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Roberts Brothers: 1879

Seller ID: 2304566

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on second blank and last page. 1879 Hard Cover. viii, 344, iv, [4] pp. The front panel shows the interesting design of ever-smaller rectangles of black lines shrinking to outline the handsome small gilt picture of a rabbit bounding through a wild field. The spine shows black striping and gilt title and decoration of a squirrel.--JDBFamily, AbeBooks. Immersed in the detail of this ancient landscape, its people and the habitats of its wildlife, what emerges from Jefferies dazzling prose is his sense of perpetual wonder and the de...
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The Rubaiyat of Mirza-Mem'n

By: [Khayyam, Omar]; Mirza-mem'n (Zimmerman, John Stevens)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, Henry Olendorf Shepard: 1901

Seller ID: 2300634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. No jacket. Spine lightly toned. 1901 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. 131 stanzas. A collection of verse, most of which has been paraphrased from McCarthy's prose translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Published pseudonymously under the name 'Mirza-Mem'n' - the author's real name was John Stevens Zimmerman. Engravings protected with captioned tissue guards, decorative borders throughout. Purple cloth with beveled edges, gilt titles. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in the Persian langu...
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The Wild Olive: A Novel

By: [King, Bail]

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1910

Seller ID: 2306891

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Minor general wear. 1910 Hard Cover. 346 pp. Green cloth boards. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates by Lucius Hitchcock. A beautiful young girl, Olive, an artist under whose gentle life a tragic sin lies. She is an outcast from the people of her father, She has a studio in the woods and one day a handsome young fellow, an innocent fugitive from justice finds shelter there. From the opening chapter it seizes the reader's attention, and this grip isn't released until the last word is said. It is--above all else--a remarkably human story.
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Translated from the Arabic. A New and Complete Edition. [The Thousand and One Nights]

By: [Lane, Edward]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo: 1870

Seller ID: 2303154

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1870 Hard Cover. 540 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Two-column format. Over 100 woodcuts from illustrations by S.J. Groves. Though no translator is credited, this is most likely an Edward Lane translation given the date -- Payne and Burton would not release their versions until the 1880s, and both changed the title from The Arabian Nights Entertainments to slightly different forms of The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.
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Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce [Catalog]

By: [Peirce, Charles S.]; Robin, Richard S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Massachusetts, The University of Massachusetts Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2308165

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. No jacket. 1967 Large Hardcover. xxviii, 268 pp. This is a catalogue of and guide to the Charles S. Peirce Papers which are presently housed in the Houghton Library, the rare book and manuscript library at Harvard University. The papers have been divided into to parts. Part One consists principally of manuscripts; Part Two, of correspondence. The manuscripts range over the whole of Peirce's intellectual life and include--as anyone familiar with Peirce might expect--manuscripts on logic, mathematics, metaphysics, and pragmatism. Also included ar...
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Merlin Baltimore, 1827, Together with Recollections of Edgar A. [Allan] Poe

By: [Poe, Edgar A. (Allan)]; Wilmer, Lambert A.; Mabbott, Thomas Ollive

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints: 1941

Seller ID: 2307334

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First thus. Board corners rubbed, paper pasted to front paste-down endpaper, ink name on front free endpaper. 1941 Hard Cover. xiii, 38 pp. Edited with an introduction by Thomas Ollive, Mabbott. Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints announces Merlin, a Play about Edgar Allan Poe, Baltimore, 1827.
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Word Index to Poe's Fiction

By: [Poe, Edgar Allan]; Pollin, Burton R.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Gordian Press: 1982

Seller ID: 2307500

ISBN: 0877522251

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Page ridges foxed, pencil date on front paste-down endpaper, related papers laid in. 1982 Large Hardcover. xviii, 485 pp. This volume was developed in response to an urgent need for an instrument to authenticate unsigned texts of Poe that he could have inserted into the journals that he edited during his energetic editorial career: Southern Literary Messenger, Burtons Gentlemans Magazine, Grahams Magazine, The Mirror, and the Broadway Journal. In addition it can and, I trust, will serve many other purposes for students of the words of Edgar Allan Poe: the analysis of ...
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, from the Best English and German Editions, with Illustrations (Knickerbocker Nuggest)

By: [Raspe, Rudolph Erich]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnams Sons: 1888

Seller ID: 2303653

Binding: Small Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Decorative ownership marks on front cover, ink stamp on title page. 1888 Small Hard Cover. x, 241 pp. Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. The character is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Mnchhausen. Born in Bodenwerder, Electorate of Hanover, the real-life Mnchhausen fought for the Russian Empire in the Russo-Turkish War of 17351739. Upon retiring in 1760, he became a minor celebrity within German ari...
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Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

By: [Sackville-West, Vita; Nicolson, Harold]; Nicolson, Nigel (Editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnams Sons: 1992

Seller ID: 2292335

ISBN: 0399136665

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price-clipped. Ink gift note on front free endpaper. 1992 Hard Cover. x, 452 pp. A collection of correspondence between the poet-novelist and her diplomat-politician-author husband spans fifty years to recount their turbulent and open marriage, Vita's lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, their colorful circle of friends, and more.
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The Hen-Pecked Husband [with] The Unfortunate Maid; or, The Miser's Fate. Embracing the Life and Adventures of Bob Norberry, an Irish Reporter.

By: [Scott, Harriet S.] The Author of The M.P.'s Wife.; O'Shaugnessey, P.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, H. Long and Brother / William H. Graham: 1848

Seller ID: 2305160

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition and first American edition, respectively. Spine and corners a bit rubbed, lightly foxed throughout (more on endpapers). 1848 Hard Cover. 141, [1]; viii, [9]-130 pp. 8vo. Two-column format. Brown leather spine and corners, marbled paper over boards, gilt titles and rules. Two novels bound in one volume, both uncommon (23 in OCLC and 3 in OCLC respectively). An ad for Frank Cernon; or, A Cadet's First Year in India follows the text of the first work, and a preface expressing O'Shaugnessey's anti-English sentiments precedes the text of the second work.
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The Tempest

By: [Shakespeare, William]; Beneduce, Ann Keay

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Philomel Books: 1996

Seller ID: 2303012

ISBN: 0399227644

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by illustrator without inscription. A very nice copy. 1996 Large Hardcover. A lavish young reader's edition of the classic Shakespearean tale follows the adventures of cast-out duke Prospero, who lives on an enchanted island with his daughter, Miranda, and the magical spirits helpful Ariel and evil Caliban.
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The Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Volume I (The Franklin Library, The Great Books of the Western World)

By: [Shakespeare, William]; Clarke, William George; Wright, William Aldis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library: 1978

Seller ID: 2279747

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

A fine copy. 1978 Full-Leather. 460 pp. Volume I only. Red leather with gilt decorations and gilt page ridges. Red slik moire endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated by William Oakes. CONTENTS: The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth; The Tragedy of King Richard the Third; The Comedy of Errors.
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A Companion to the Grapes of Wrath

By: [Steinbeck, John]; French, Warren

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin Books: 1989

Seller ID: 2291534

ISBN: 0140119876

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spine and pages faintly toned, ink underlining, pencil name on blurb page. 1989 Trade Paperback. xi, 243 pp. Essays on the social and literary background of John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath, including commentary, documents, and archival material.--front wrapper
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The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land (Twayne's Masterwork Studies)

By: [Steinbeck, John]; Owens, Louis

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Twayne Publishers: 1989

Seller ID: 2291535

ISBN: 0805780475

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sticker on rear wrapper, a few sentences underlined. 1989 Trade Paperback. xv, 121 pp. Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the literary works most frequently studied in high school. Presenting ideas that spark imaginations, these books help students to gain background knowledge on great literature useful for papers and exams. The goal of each study is to encourage creative thinking by presenting engaging information about each work and its author. This approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses ...
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Kidnapped (Authorized Edition, 1600)

By: [Stevenson, Robert Louis]; Disney, Walt; Fannin, Cole

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Racine, Wisconsin, Whitman Publishing Company: 1960

Seller ID: 2280203

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pages lightly toned, a few pages dog-eared. 1960 Hard Cover. 212 pp. Adapted from the Walt Disney production of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure story. Illustrated by Si Vanderlaan.
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