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Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Red cloth, red tape repair to spine, rubbed and spotted, text solid. FER ; Ex-Library
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's English Experiences Vol. I. Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1901.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Vol. I ONLY. Minor fading to spine. Vibrant gilt lettering and embellishments. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Publisher: Houghton Mifflin & Co., Date of Publication: 1901, Hardcover, title and print on front cover, good condition, spine some wear, 301pp.
Seller: Bookstore Brengelman, cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences.. Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
Price: US$12.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: foolscap8vo, vi, 329 pp. Original green cloth, lettered gilt on backstrip and upper cover, black shamrocks all over. 7mm split at head of backstrip otherwise a VG+ tight and clean copy.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: 329p. BAL 22625 Ex-library, Good condition, front hinge cracked
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: 329p. Good condition some marginal soiling
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin Boston 1901, 1901.
Price: US$17.25 + shipping
Description: 329pp. 12mo Red cloth BAL 22625: First edition, apparently 2nd issue with imprint on page 330, no rear blank and "like to go to Bray" on page 12, line 10 (etc.) Extremities rubbed, front hinge reglued: VG-/no dj
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, NY, 1901.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1881, Kate married (Samuel) Bradley Wiggin, a San Francisco lawyer. According to the customs of the time, she was required to resign her teaching job. Still devoted to her school, she began to raise money for it through writing, first The Story of Patsy (1883) , then The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887). Both privately printed books were issued commercially by Houghton Mifflin in 1889, with enormous success. Kate Wiggin had no children. She moved to New York City in 1888. When her husband died suddenly in 1889, Kate relocated to Maine. For the rest of her life she grieved, but she also traveled as frequently as she could, dividing her time between writing, visits to Europe, and giving public reading for the benefit of various children's charities. Wiggin traveled abroad and back from Liverpool in the United Kingdom at least three times. Records from the Ellis Island logs show that she arrived back in New York City from Liverpool in October 1892, July 1893, and July 1894. On the logs for the 1892 trip, Wiggin describes her occupation as "Wife", despite her former husband dying three years prior. In 1893 and 1894, she describes herself as an "Authoress". " (from Wikipedia)
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16mo, 329 pages, green cloth with a shamrock design, name on endpaper The third Penelope book. With 50 illustrations by Charles E. Brock
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small, thick book, green cloth with dark shamrocks on all sides, gilt design with title and author at top front and spine, 329 pages, pencil signature on first front end paper,dated 1903. Near Very Fine.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Experiences in England. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nicely (non personalized) inscribed and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper. Very good or better with no major flaws. (box 15)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good+/Good-: the book is clean, straight, unmarked, the cloth binding very bright beneath the jacket; jacket is clean, but has chips: 1" across top of spine continuing onto back top 2"; 1/2" across spine bottom; 3/4" bottom front right corner. Hardcover in the original jacket; in light olive cloth with art nouveal floral and scroll pattern in gilt, also on spine with lettering; 301 pp. Vol II has two parts, chapters "In Town" and chapters "In the Country"; with 55 b&w illustrations by Brock. This first edition jacket is quite scarce. Photographs of book and jacket on request. /C. E. Brock.
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, green cloth, stamped with shamrocks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901. First Edition. Binding lightly rubbed at edges; gift inscription, 1902.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Gilt decorations on cloth, t. e. g, 1900 on copyright page; Very good, spine ends worn, spine slightly dulled, endpaper inscription.
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Wiggin Douglas Kate. Penelope's English Experiences.. Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
Price: US$74.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo hardcover volume in green gold embossed cloth binding. Small spot lower right corner minor wear boards tight. Front end paper cracked. Signed by Wiggin on end paper. Contents quite good with a coupe spots no foxing.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$79.95 + shipping
Description: Very good in green cloth, Ex-libaray mark to REP and number to spine, FEP detached but present. Much better then it sounds.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. PENELOPE'S IRISH EXPERIENCES. Houghton Mifflin and Co., Boston, 1901.
Price: US$79.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 327pp., bound in a green decorative cloth depicting shamrocks in dark green, title gilt within gilt frame, spine gilt, previous owner's name otherwise near fine.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This first edition is bound in a light green cloth with darker green shamock design. Gilt framed lettering of spine and front cover. There is no corner bumping and very little edge wear. Very faint reddish spots upper and lower front cover. Hinges and gutters are solid, no shadowing. Pale erasure marks lower fep. Interior text is clean and tight in binding, no ownership or other markings. Only flaw is a very slight break between pages 166 & 167. Unusually good condition for a children's book this old. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin and Company January 1901, 1901.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Corners lightly bumped. Binding slightly tilted. Page edges age yellowed. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two hardcover volumes in Very Good condition, 12mo, pages: Vol I:xi,176, Vol.II:xi301. Green cloth with titles and floral decoration in gilt, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, 53 and 55 illustrations by Brock in Vols. I & II, respectively. Each volume with a warm inscription on front free end-paper by Wiggin, "To Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell / With the author's love / & with many remembrances / of their friendly / hospitality / Kate Douglas Wiggin / June 1905" and in Vol.II, "We have traveled together / before, Salemina, Francesca / and I and we / know the very worst / there is to know about / one another / Kate Douglas Wiggin / To Mr. and Mrs. Weli?? Mitchell / june 1905"; Light wear to corners and spine ends, minor soiling, spine darkened, leaves sl tanned, Vol.II hinge starting and p.165/166 torn w/loss, sm 1 cm cut to top of spine, some pages unopened. Bookseller accession no.: 14731. Extra postage will be required for international shipment of this 2-volume set.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in the publisher's decorative green cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in black (shamrocks) and gilt (still brilliant). 329pps. No dustjacket. There is very mild rubbing to the spine-ends and a plastic bar-code label affixed to the rear pastedown. Otherwise clean and bright. The binding is square and sound; both hinges are fine. An excellent copy of a book by the writer perhaps better known for 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm' (1903). SIGNED and inscribed by the author ('Never forget that your mother was a McGrill!') on a card affixed to the ffep. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.
Seller: Nooks Of Books , Elkins Park, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 327 pages; HC in decorative pictorial cloth with dark green clover pattern set on a lighter green cloth and decorative gilt title design to cover and spine. Mixed 1st issue, 1st edition. The egregious flaw of omitted text from page 325 remains uncorrected; pagination is 327 and the publisher colophon appears on page [328]. The mistake on the copyright page is corrected with "&" present in place of the earlier "and" ; misprint on page 186 remains. Most examples of the misprinted text with omitted passage were destroyed, making this mixed state with corrected copyright especially unusual. Bright, snug copy with just mild darkening to spine and mild crimping to cloth at spine ends. Lightly bumped at the tail of the spine. Attractive bookplate of Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. An unusual state of the 1st, defective issue. VG+
Seller: DogStar Books, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas.. Penelope's English Experiences.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1901.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 2 vols. With fifty-three illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 12mo, publisher's gilt blue-green cloth, t.e.g. Very slight bumping at extremities; a bright attractive set. Inscribed and signed by Kate Douglas Wiggin in Vol II; signed quotation by Wiggin in Vol. I; with recipient's (?) ownership signature and bookplate.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, second issue (with 329 pages, and completed text of the final chapter). [2], vi, 329 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "Part of the text of the final chapter was omitted from the first issue of printing 1, apparently by mistake. Sheets of this printing were altered [in the second issue] . to correct this mistake" (BAL). BAL 22625 Light-green cloth with dark-green shamrock pattern, decorated and lettered in gilt. Slight wear and minor fading to covers, early owner's signature on front pastedown. Overall, very good First edition, first printing, second issue (with 329 pages, and completed text of the final chapter).
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$193.36 + shipping
Description: 2 volúmenes. XI- 176- XI- 301 pp.
Seller: Llibreria Antiquària Els Gnoms, Sedó, Spain
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1901.
Price: US$205.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good hardcover. Clean pages. Bumped tips, fraying at head and heel of spine. Discoloration at head of spine. 16mo. 329 pgs.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: vi, 329p. Quarter light brown morocco over marbled boards with marbled end papers. WITH SIGNED INSCRIPTION TO HER HUSBAND GEORGE C. RIGGS on the inside front blank dated 1901. Almost entirely unopened. Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator, author and composer. Her most famous work Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Light rubbing to the front hinge and a tiny chip in the headband otherwise internally clean. An important novel with a personal inscription by the author.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope's Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first edition with the date 1901 on both the title and copyright page and 327 pages not 329 with the scarce original jacket. Some loss to corners and spine ends, otherwise a very nice jacket with the original price of $1.25 on the front panel. The spine of the jacket is darkened,but the front and rear panels retain some of the original green color. The book itself could pass for twenty years old instead of 120. Penned name and date of 1901 on the second front endpaper.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Wiggin, Kate Douglas. Penelope"s Irish Experiences. Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1901.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Spine darkened. "Authors copy. 1st edition of Penelope's Irish Experiences printed with 80 lines of text omitted by mistake. See page 325 K.S.M." First state per BAL 22625. Includes corrections annotated by Wiggin.
Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.