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Condition:
Very Good (for age)
Description:
Christine by Alice Cholmondeley, published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1917.
This is the First American Edition, first printing, issued during World War I. Macmillan books of this period do not use number lines; the 1917 publication date with no later printings noted confirms first printing status.
The book is bound in its original green cloth with a paper title label on the front board. It includes the original Publishers’ Note and the author’s prefatory statement dated London, May 1917, situating the work firmly in its wartime historical context.
This copy contains a period ownership inscription dated June 1917 on the front endpaper (contemporary to publication; not Alice Cholmondeley
Title: Christine
Publisher: The Macmillan Company
Place: New York
Year: 1917
Edition: First American Edition, first printing
Binding: Hardcover, green cloth
Pages: Complete
Condition Notes:
Light edge wear and mild rubbing to cloth, consistent with age
Binding is tight and sound
Pages are clean with age toning
No dust jacket (likely issued without one)
A solid, original WWI-era first edition, suitable for collectors of early 20th-century literature, women writers, or World War I–period publications.
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