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Lot 182 - Trio of Antique Books Including "The Right Princess" By Clara Louise Burnham, 1902, "The Magic Carpet: Poems for Travellers" By Mrs. Waldo Richards, and "Elizabeth and Her German Garden"
Lot 182 - Trio of Antique Books Including "The Right Princess" By Clara Louise Burnham, 1902, "The Magic Carpet: Poems for Travellers" By Mrs. Waldo Richards, and "Elizabeth and Her German Garden"
Trio of three antique hardcover books. "The Right Princess" by Clara Louise Burnham, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1902, in green cloth boards with gilt lettering and floral design; a heart-shaped "Greetings from St. Valentine" card is tucked inside. "The Magic Carpet: Poems for Travellers," selected and compiled by Mrs. Waldo Richards, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, in blue cloth boards with gilt ship vignette and lettering. "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" in red cloth boards with silver rose wreath design on the front cover.
All three books show general wear including rubbing and soiling to covers, bumped corners, and fraying at spine ends. "The Magic Carpet" has staining to the front cover and foxing to interior pages. "The Right Princess" has spotting on the covers and loosening at the front hinge.
