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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.
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$48.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good tight condition slight edgewear
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS] [WOMAN AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR]. Katharine R. WIREMAN, illustrator. 8vo square; xvi, 90, [2]pp; dark green cloth over board, lettering in orange on front and spine, pale green borders of birds, two sets of green candles and holly on front; gift inscription dated 1918 on ffep; illustrated caps, tailpieces and headlines; illustrated half-title and title page; 4 plates in including fp in b&w and red; illustrated throughout in b&w; a few fingermarks, rubbing to corners; very good plus. BAL 22664. A lovely copy of Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin's classic tale of Christmas, lushly illustrated throughout in black and white on cream-colored stock. This reprint of the 1889 edition includes a "Prefatory Letter" dated April 1912 in which Wiggin addresses the book as "my dear first-born" and "in an altogether new dress" bids it blessing on its "second journey into the world." Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American author, composer, and educator, at one time serving as the head of a Kindergarten Normal school in California. The Story of Patsy was her first book, but A Birds' Christmas Carol brought her literary success. She is best known for her children's novel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Katharine Richardson Wireman (1878-1966) was a prolific and successful artist and illustrator, working for many of the early 20th century periodicals.
Seller: Sandra L. Hoekstra Bookseller, Thomaston, ME, 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.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey with Dickens. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: From the Albert Chuch Brown Library 1941 China, Maine sticker affixed to inside front cover, easily removed. No other library markings. "For Mrs. Ester Tloyt, Kate Douglas Wiggin" Dated 1912 on Title page. First edition per BAL 22662. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Very Good +++
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.