Mother Carey's Chickens

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Later edition.

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Book: Good
Our ref: RCB-beb4be8fafd8

What we checked, and where to see itRCB-beb4be8fafd8 · 8 photographs of this copy

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Title page states 1930 and 'Riverside Bookshelf' series

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First edition of the text was 1911; 1930 date confirms a later reissue

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examined on the copy in hand

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Riverside Bookshelf issue with Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott illustrations, paste-on pictorial cover label, top edge gilt

examined on the copy in hand

Flaws, each one named

Words circled in green and purple ink on first text page and other interior pages

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Rubbing and loss to gilt spine lettering

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Bumped/worn corners, especially lower spine and board edges

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Edge wear and soiling to paste-on pictorial cover label

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This copy

1930 Houghton Mifflin Company Edition

What a true first shows: First published 1911 by Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston and New York). This copy is the 1930 Riverside Bookshelf edition — a later illustrated reissue, not the 1911 first.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.