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 Seven Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume seven 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 Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper and many others. With a color frontis illustration of Tiny Tim and Bob from "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens, 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 conspicuous tanning to 6 leaves at the front of the book (including the t.o.c.) and slight whitish discoloration along front cover lower edge, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 487 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 Seven Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume seven 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 Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper and many others. With a color frontis illustration of Tiny Tim and Bob from "A Christmas Carol" by Dickens, 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 conspicuous tanning to 6 leaves at the front of the book (including the t.o.c.) and slight whitish discoloration along front cover lower edge, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 487 pages. Very Good- with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's
Price: US$ 18.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88583
- Book number: 88583