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 Eight Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume eight only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories, historical accounts and folk tales suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Rudyard Kipling, William H. Prescott, Edgar Allan Poe, Miguel de Cervantes and many others. With a color frontis illustration depicting the Retreat of Hernán Cortés, 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 slight rusty soiling to edges of covers, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 484 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 Eight Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume eight only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories, historical accounts and folk tales suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry David Thoreau, Rudyard Kipling, William H. Prescott, Edgar Allan Poe, Miguel de Cervantes and many others. With a color frontis illustration depicting the Retreat of Hernán Cortés, 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 slight rusty soiling to edges of covers, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 484 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's
Price: US$ 18.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88582
- Book number: 88582