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WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. The Diary of a Goose Girl. Houghton Mifflin, U.S., 1902.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good/very good copy of this delightful period piece. The spine is a little browned and worn, but the pictorial front board looks pretty fresh and clean. Hinge is cracked but holding at front endpaper, and there is a chip in the bottom edge of the first page. A couple of dandelion heads have been pressed between two pages leaving the paper browned although the text is still easily readable. There's an inscription, dated 1903, on endpaper. All in all, a sound and not unattractive copy.
Seller: The Bark of the Beech Tree, Depoe Bay, OR, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas.. Diary of a Goose Girl.. Houghton Mifflin,, Boston:, 1902.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Small octavo, bound in tan, illustrated buckram with black lettering. Shelf worn, else good. No dust jacket. ; 117 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. The Diary of a Goose Girl. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, decorated American trade binding. Beige cloth boards with unrubbed illustration on cover (a long line of white geese and a girl standing near with a skein of yarn, knitting), black lettering on cover, black lettering and bright white goose on spine. Moderate soiling to beige boards. Very small spots of wear at spine ends. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Previous owner name and date beautifully penned on front free endpaper (Christmas 1902). Frontispiece (black and white drawing) with clean tissue guard. Additional illustrations throughout by Claude A. Shepperson. 117 pages.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Minor wear to edges and corners. ; Otherwise in good condition. Tan illusustrated cover with white geese and a woman in orange dress knitting. ; 8vo; 117 pages
Seller: Confetti Antiques & Books, Spanish Fork, UT, U.S.A.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. The Diary of a Goose Girl. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In tan cloth covers and pictorial in white, black and red and black lettering on front cover and black lettering on spine. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Square and intact binding. Clean and unmarked endpapers and text pages. Bumping of ends of spine. Some water spots on spine. Light to moderate wear. Photos upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Quaker House Books, Catawissa, PA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Diary of a Goose Girl, The. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 117 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Minor wear to front and rear covers. Light staining on front spine. Black and white pictures throughout. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. Record # 470662
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is hard-bound in red cloth, with gilt stamping to the upper cover and spine. The covers show some light scuffing/mottling, edge-wear, and rubbing to the joints, corners and spine-ends. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and generally clean with illustrations, but also with some light scattered soiling/foxing. - From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: G, some soiling to covers and light wear to spine ends, previous ownerÕs signature front pastedown. Overall a solid copy with clean unmarked text. ; 12mo, tan, decoratively stamped cover, profusely illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson.
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. The Diary of a Goose Girl.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. Popular children's author Wiggin (1856-1923) is most famous for her novel "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." This is a Very Good Plus to Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Charming decorative tan cloth binding, featuring the Goose Girl and sixteen of her charges in black, white, and orange. Illustrated throughout by Claude A. Shepperson. Clean text, free of any marginalia; 117 pages; one-page advert opposite the half-title. Previous-owner signature on the FFEP; some spotting on the endpapers, light soiling. Lacking the dustjacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Firtst Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Claude A. Shepperson.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp. 117. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. Ivory cloth, with pictorial stamping in black, white and rust. Cover somewhat scuffed and soiled, hinges tender, o/w a VG copy.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL. Houghton MIfflin Co., Boston, 1902.
Price: US$58.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition beautifully bound in a beige pictorial cloth depicting a young girl with a flock of geese with color accents in brown, black and gray, a near fine copy with light finger soiling.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Charmingly old-fashioned tale about a girl who tends geese on Thornycraft Farm, near Barbury Green in one of the "most idyllic & quaintest villages of England" at the turn of the 20th century, based on the author's travels to the area. In 117 pages, with delicate pen-and-ink sketches throughout by Claude A. Shepperson, a native artist of the region. A First American Edition, first printing from May 1902, this hardcover 12mo (5" x 7.25") has burgundy cloth-covered boards stamped with gilt lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG: very clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white & unmarked with moderate, even tanning, mild offsetting to endpapers. Moderate rubbing to extremities, with some color loss, heaviest along spine & all corners, which are also mildly bumped. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Seller: Gargoyle Books, IOBA, La Mesa, CA, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1902.
Price: US$67.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp. 117. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. Ivory cloth, with pictorial stamping in black, white and rust. Cover slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. The Diary of a Goose Girl. Houghton Mifflin/Riverside - Boston, 1902.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Mustard yellow pictorial boards with picture of a girl tending to a gaggle of geese. Tinted top page edges, for edge and bottom page edges are not cut. Illustrated throughout by Claude A. Shepperson. Book is tight, square and totally free of markings inside other than prior owners bookplate. First edition, first printing. Book is protected in archival quality mylar.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of this charming story of a woman who seeks out a simpler life in rural Sussex, working on a farm and raising geese - a companion of sorts to Kate Douglas Wiggin's REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM. 7.25'' x 4.5''. Original maroon cloth boards. Black-and-white frontispiece with tissue guard, black-and-white illustrations. 118 pages. Ink owner name to front flyleaf, dated Feb. 14 1905. A touch of bumping to corners and spine ends. Clean and tight.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. THE DIARY OF A GOSE GIRL. Houghton Mifflin Co. N.Y., 1902.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine clean and bright hardcover copy in the Very Rare Dustjacket/brodart covered. First Edition, May 1902. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. The rare jacket has small pieces missing to top of jackets spine and rear panel. Jacket is partially split along the spine fold of the rear panel. Small chips/nick to all four corner folds. Some age toning to jacket and owner's name appears on one the front free end papers. All in all, one of the most complete jackets of this book I have seen. Front panel of jacket is complete except for a small v shape chip to bottom edge. A very nice copy of this book and Rare Jacket. = WE BOX AND SHIP ALL BOOKS WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION. = WE HAVE BEEN BUYING AND SELLING USED BOOKS FOR OVER 33 YEARS.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL. , 1902.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL. With Illustrations by Claude A. Shepperson. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902. First edition. 8vo., beige pictorial boards. Ink inscription to ffep. Slight offsetting to endpapers; one page carelessly opened. Still, a tight, near fine copy, in exceptionally bright boards. In a somehwat sunned and chipped dust jacket with a few tears; front panel is detached. A scarce book, especially in the dust jacket.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.