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WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1911.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Good plus/ front cover is halfway torn off, fading around the edges and on spine, expected markings. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, 1911.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Pictorial green cloth. 1st edition. 356pp. B&w illustrations. Light edge-wear to covers. Green cloth bit discolored. Most of leaf pp.45-6 missing. This copy inscribed by Wiggin on front end-paper.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small octavo bound in green, pictorial cloth binding. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: minor fading & wear to binding; else good condition. 356 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth over boards. Edges and corners bumped. Some wear on page edges, edges toned. A few stray marks, name on frontis, otherwise clean throughout. Made into the 1938 film of the same name.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: Green decorated cloth over boards: framed w/ birds in flight; colonial home at center. v, [1] p., 1 L., 355, [1] p., 1 Color artwork, tinted w/ green and yellow. 20 cm. Includes Plates. Listed inside, 23 editions by the prolific early 20th century Mrs. Wiggin, with some lightly checked by prior owner. Known best for "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm", her tales are often of family life, featuring young girls. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Well-bound. Clean interior text pages. Mildly faded spine. Minor spine end, corner bumps. Age-toning (acid) to frontispiece, tissue, title-page, and to other plates (edges appear damp-stained. End papers. First edition. Same date, title and copyright pages. 1
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.
Price: US$28.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback in very good condition.
Seller: Bingo Used Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Gouglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1911.
Price: US$29.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1911.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First Edition. 12mo. Decorative green cloth binding with illustration of home and titles blindstamped in gold. 10 plates including frontispiece, protective tissue. 356 pp. Spine faded, top and bottom of spine worn, boards soiled, previous owner bookplate inside front board. Front hinge cracked. Good condition.
Seller: Rose's Books IOBA, Harwich Port, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin, Bosron, 1911.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 356 pp, 8 illustrations, four lightly tinted, 12mo, olive clot h, front cover illustrated/border, very good, no dust jacket
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1911.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Green cloth pictorially stamped in cream, dark green and gilt.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1911.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Good in original green, pictorial boards. Hinge is starting. Bookplate to front pastedown; previous owner name and date to FFEP. Chip to crown at spine. Edgewear to exterior. Illustrations and frontispiece. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1911, 1911.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Publisher imprint on spine stamped in green. BAL22658. Minor rubbing to corners & spine edges. some fading to cover & spine. Green V cloth.
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin, 1911.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: green decorated binding
Seller: RP BOOKS, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS. Houghton and Mifflin, Boston, 1911.
Price: US$64.90 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Approximately half of front end page cut out. Tear on rear pastedown, 1/4 inch tear on top of rear panel. 1/2 inch tear on bottom and side of copyright page. ; 355 pages.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book in good shape. A children's classic presenting a loving, serving, nurturing family as a model, with wisdom and warmth. Price negotiable
Seller: Smokey, York, NE, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas.. Mother Carey's Chickens.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1911.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: vii, 356 pp. 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth in dust jacket. First edition. BAL 22658. Near fine in a jacket with some dust-soiling, a few tiny chips, and a very short closed tear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, binding A. Owner's early ink name on front flyleaf, small stain on bottom edge, else near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a little toning. A novel about a family struggling with poverty and the basis for a 1938 film starring Ruby Keeler, Ann Shirley, Walter Brennan, Frank Morgan, and Margaret Hamilton; later filmed by Walt Disney as *Summer Magic* starring Hayley Mills and Burl Ives.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Stephens, Alice Barber. MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS. Houghton - Mifflin, 1911.
Price: US$174.00 + shipping
Description: MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS, Houghton-Mifflin, 1911, first edition, vg+ in vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Most uncommon in dust-wrapper. Illustrated both in color and black & white by Alice Barber Stephens. The source book for the twice made film.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Mother Carey's Chickens. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1911.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Small 8vo moss green pictorial cloth stamped in dark green, white and gilt. Owner's name on half title. Light rubbing to the spine lettering, else a very good to near fine copy in a very good, bright dust jacket, which has a half-inch triangular chip at the upper left corner of the front cover. Scarce in dust jacket.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.