Author: SYLVESTER, CHARLES H.
Title: Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (Volume Ten Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1913. Hardcover. Volume ten only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories, historical accounts and fairy tales suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning, Abraham Lincoln and many others. With a color frontis illustration depicting a scene from Browning's "Pippa Passes," plus numerous black & white illustrations scattered through the text and on gloss plates. The series of ten books was edited by Charles H. Sylvester and originally included an eleventh volume, in the form of a guide to the series. --- In light green buckram cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling & decorations in gilt on darker green blocks. TEG (top edge gilt), with brown pictorial endpapers. --- With a faint rusty smudge to front cover, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vii, 500 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's
Title: Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (Volume Ten Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1913. Hardcover. Volume ten only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories, historical accounts and fairy tales suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Browning, Abraham Lincoln and many others. With a color frontis illustration depicting a scene from Browning's "Pippa Passes," plus numerous black & white illustrations scattered through the text and on gloss plates. The series of ten books was edited by Charles H. Sylvester and originally included an eleventh volume, in the form of a guide to the series. --- In light green buckram cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling & decorations in gilt on darker green blocks. TEG (top edge gilt), with brown pictorial endpapers. --- With a faint rusty smudge to front cover, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; vii, 500 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's
Price: US$ 19.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88579
- Book number: 88579