Author: Willard, J. H
Title: The Boy Who Would Be King: The Story of Absalom
Description: Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus Company, (1905). (1905). Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus Company, (1905). (1905). Very good. - (Altemus Children of the Bible Series, No. 8). Small octavo, pictorial white cloth titled in gilt with profuse decorations in gilt & with illustration stamped in color on front cover, in gray dw. The covers are lightly bumped. The dw is chipped & somewhat darkened with a piece out of the head of the spine. 42 pp. & 2-page publisher's catalogue. Color frontispiece, 8 B&W plates & 2 B&W textual illustrations. There is an owner's pencil name & address on the printed bookplate & the title is lightly offset. An attractive copy in the rarely found dw. Very good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S; ILLUSTRATED; BIBLE; BIBLICAL; OLD TESTAMENT; ABSOLOM; J. H. WILLARD; PLATES; PICTORIAL CLOTH.


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