Author: KELLY, Myra Title: Little Citizens: The Humours of School Life
Description: New York, McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pale blue cloth with ivory lettering/rules and black and ivory pictorial stamping. 353pp, (4pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 16 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Binding faintly soiled, else tight and internally fine; 2" X 3" magazine stock printed photograph of author neatly tipped to front pastedown. A handsome first edition of the first of a half dozen titles by this Dublin-born American school mistress, dead of tuberculosis at age 35. Charming tales of teaching at public schools in turn-of-the-century New York. Scarce in such sharp condition. .
Keywords: American Literature
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 45351
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