Author: NEEDHAM, George C.
Title: Street Arabs and Gutter Snipes. The Pathetic and Humorous Side of Young Vagabond Life in the Great Cities, with Records of Work for Their Reclamation
Description: Philadelphia, Hubbard Bros, 1888. Hardcover. 8vo. Light blue bevel-edged cloth with gilt lettering and elaborate gilt and black rules, decorations and pictorial stamping. xix, 516pp, (2pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page plates and numerous small illustrations, floral endpapers. Very good. Spine head/tail lightly edgeworn but binding overall sharp, with all gilt bright; nonauthorial 1890 gift inscription on inner flyleaf; preliminary leaves a bit age toned and rear endpaper rubbed and scuffed, else tight and nice. Attractive second edition of a text first published by D.L. Guernsey of Boston in 1884. Fascinating look into the lives of homeless, destitute children in later 19th century America by this noted reverend and writer (1840-1092). .

Keywords: Children's


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