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BACON, JOSEPHINE DASKAM Ten to Seventeen: A Boarding School Diary
New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1908, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ill.: Jessie Willcox-Smith; Florence Scovel Shinn; Elizabeth Shippen Green;. Clear Brodart Covering, Green cloth, stamped gold lettering; decorative label with illustration of school slate and title on front cover; bumping to spine ends and corners, rubbing and edgewear; page edges darkened; "Thomson's Lending Library labels on pastedowns; former owners' names, pencil note; no foxing; spine and hinges a little loosened but holding well; some smudges. Text and illustrations generally clean and clear. 261 pages including 14 plates (all present, 2 laid in): illustrations by various artists; tissue (short tear) protected frontispiece; panelled title page in black and red. A delightful collection of school stories (described as "Events") written in an easy conversational style. Two friends decide to "seal [the record] in a casket and bury it deep in the earth, at midnight, for future generations to learn from .. and make Elmbank School famous forever". The full page illustrations, black and white drawings on a cream background, are particularly attractive. Very uncommon. Fair to Good/No Jacket.
Offered for US$ 85.00 by: Well Read Books (formerly Literacy Nanaimo) - Book number: 000864
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