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Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey with Dickens. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Staple holes through first 3 pages into front board. Text very good.
Seller: Take Five Books, Ashland, OR, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith. A Child's Journey with Dickens. Houghton Mifflin Co, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This printing does NOT have 1912 on title page, meaning it is not a first edition. 2 plates, one page ads. Old stamped price inside rear cover. Brown paper covered boards, edges worn, tips frayed. Black cloth spine with edge wear. 1922 ink Christmas git inscription. Paper toned. lit biog; 8.3 X 5.0 X 0.6 inches; 35 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey with Dickens. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, green cloth spine over drab boards, lettered in green. Frontispiece drawing of Dickens and small oval vignette photograph of author as a child. The author's memoirs of growing up with Dickens, a literary and persona l appreciation. Several pages lightly foxed and old gift inscription on fly. Very good. Podeschi H479 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing; dark green c w/brown boards, green titles clean, unmarked pages; lite soiling and rubbing; owner's insc; 32 clean, unmarked pages Size: 12vo; 1 Pound
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Description: [8], 32 pp. Wove paper. No adverts at rear. Frontis from a drawing of Dickens & a plate, from a photograph, of "The Child". 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5" Nr. Fine (offset to eps/prior owner sig on ffep). A nice copy. Green cloth spine over drab boards lettered in dark green
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A CHILD'S JOURNEY WITH DICKENS. Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1912.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7.5 x 5", green cloth backed boards, 32pp, covers rubbed, extremities worn, lower extremities bumped, pp toned. With large inscription "Joan Harry From Aunt Mame, Quillcote 1926", with another inscription above stating "Written by sister of Kate Douglas Wiggins, Nora Archibald Smith, August 1926, Aunt Mame." Quillcote was KDW's summer home.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.50 + shipping
Description: [8], 31, [1] pp. Frontis drawing of Dickens; inserted plate, from a photograph, of "The Child". 12mo. 7-1/2" x 5" Wiggin, at the advanced age of 12, personally expounding, while on a train ride, to the great writer on the "long dull" parts of his novels. The two did agree that David Copperfield was liked best by each. Nr Fine (paper clip impression to top of first few leaves)/VG+ (spine panel darkened). Green cloth spine over tan paper boards lettered in dark green. Dust jacket 1st edition (BAL 22662, printing II). The US imprint not in Gimbel (cf. H479).
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey With Dickens. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1912.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good plus with spine ends lightly worn. Inscribed and Signed by Wiggin on the front endpaper. Also, a further note " I was the child and this my first journey into the great world", and initialed "K. D. W."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey with Dickens. Houghton Mifflin, 1912.
Price: US$159.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderate wear to cover corners & spine edges, & small dent on bottom edge. Signatures (page groupings) are partially separated from spine, but book is holding together nicely. Previous owner's name on hla-title pg. Frontispiece illustration of Dickens with tissue guard is in vg condition. Signed by author on front endpaper: "I was the child.".
Seller: The Unskoolbookshop, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. CHILD'S JOURNEY WITH DICKENS. , 1912.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. A CHILD'S JOURNEY WITH DICKENS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First edition, inscribed by the author. 8vo., green cloth-backed paper-covered boards; prelims. + 33 pp. + ads; two illustrations. Soiling and slight rubbing to boards, with wear to edges and extremes; front hinge starting. A good copy.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.