Author: SMITH, Virginia (editor)
Title: The Gift of Affection, a Christmas and New-Year's Present
Description: New York, Leavitt & Allen Brothers, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Brown cloth with ornate gilt lettering and rules and elaborate black decorations with circular color plate on front board. 264pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 2 tissue-guarded full-page plate. Good plus. Tight-hinged and overall attractive, though mildly edgeworn (more so at spine head/tail), with preliminary leaves rather foxed. A tight and nice copy of this holiday anthology of miscellaneous sentimental essays and poems by writers now largely forgotten. Undated, though a faint ownership signature on front flyleaf is dated 25 December 1874, thus dating this edition. Quite charming and handleable despite wear. .

Keywords: American Literature Americana


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