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12:00 PM PT - Dec 11th, 2008

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Rare Juvenile Illustrated by Harrison Weir

Title: Holly Berries: Or, the Pleasures of Home & the Country. New Stories for the Winter & Summer Holidays of Little People
Author: Weir, [Harrison]
Description: 168 pp. 5 color plates. 5¼x7, original brown cloth, title gilt-stamped on cover, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition.First illustration is signed in the plate by Weir, a well-known British illustrator. Rare, not in Osborne or any bibliographies of American juvenile or illustrated books.
Heading: Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher: Willis Hazard
Date Published: 1853

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This is a two day auction running Thursday 12/11 and Friday 12/12. Invoices will not be available before Monday 12/15.


Condition report

Spine tips bumped and rubbed, corners bumped; endpapers lightly soiled, occasional foxing and marginal stains, otherwise very good.

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