The shelf · Children & Illustrated · The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago Edition
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
Mrs. L. T. Meade
M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago. Later edition.
$20One copy · this copy
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- RCB-6b6c7cd89f15
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-6b6c7cd89f15 · 10 photographs of this copy
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Title page imprint reads CHICAGO: M. A. DONOHUE & Co. — a cheap-reprint house, not the original publisher
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True first was Cassell & Company, London, 1887; this is a later American reprint
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No date and no copyright/printing statement present; Donohue reprints were undated
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Publisher ad leaves (407-429 and 415 Dearborn St.) place this issue c.1900-1915
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Decorated endpapers and pictorial cover are reprint-series dress, not first-edition features
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Flaws, each one named
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flaking/loss to pictorial paper label on front board, lower area
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frayed cloth at head and tail of spine
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rubbing and soiling to rear board
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toning and age-darkening to text leaves
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'1.50' in pencil, front endpaper
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This copy
M. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago Edition
What a true first shows: Cassell & Company, London, 1887, cloth
Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.