Originally published in 1856, issued in this edition in 1965. Four colour plates and line drawings in the text by Watkins-Pritchard (B.B). Nice copy in the Dent's Illustrated Children's Classics series. Light wear to unpriceclipped jacket.
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Frances Browne was born in Donegal and was blinded by smallpox in infancy. Despite this setback, she earned a living as a writer while living in London, and contributed to the magazine Leisure Hour for 23 years.
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Seller: Red-books ( Member of P.B.F.A. ), Hanley Swan, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Cover is blue with same illustration as that pictued, titles in black, price clipped, no inscriptions, excellent illustrations. Very nice copy, slight rubbing to wrapper but no tears, fading to spine but titles still distinct. Internally appears almost unread. Seller Inventory # 014013
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Seller: John Thompson, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Square solid copy with minor wear on covers. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free end paper, rest of interior is unmarked. Price clipped dust jacket has a few tiny edge tears and some crumpling along top and bottom edges, otherwise jacket shows light wear. Seller Inventory # 24188
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Seller: Peakirk Books, Heather Lawrence PBFA, Sheringham, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by D J Watkins Pitchford (illustrator). Hbk in d/w; nice copy; Vg/Vg-; girls name written on half title page; ; Dent's Children's Illustrated Classics`; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Seller Inventory # 52822
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Seller: M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member), Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. D.Watkins-Pitchford (illustrator). Reprint. 1975 reprint of this delightful book. In blue cloth boards, this is almost immaculate internally but for a loosened colour plate and some toning where a bookmark(?) was left and subsequently removed. Some very light toning to the tops of some pages and foxing to the upper fore edge. The clipped dust jacket shows some edge wear and significant fading to the spine, though the titles are still remarkably clear. Seller Inventory # 007485
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Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a bright price clipped dustjacket which is sunned at the spine and chipped at the spine ends. 150 pages, 4 colour illustrations on plates and drawings in the text by Denys Watkins-Pitchford. Seller Inventory # 67388
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Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1969 reprint. Seller Inventory # mon0000071435
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Seller: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Watkins-Pitchford, D. (illustrator). Reprint. 150 pages plus advertisements. First published in 1856. Illustrated with four colour plates and line drawings in the text. Book clean and unmarked with light wear and sound binding. Dust jacket price-clipped with average wear. Nice copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Granny's Wonderful Chair - The Children's Illustrated Classics. Seller Inventory # 41203880
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Seller: dsmbooks, Liverpool, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0460050559-2
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