Boston: Perry Mason and Co. Cloth. Folio. Good. Item #012664
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Quarter leather. Folio. Black and white illustrations throughout. MISSING all supplements issued. A magazine for a juvenile audience, featuring adventure fiction, poetry, articles on history, science, medicine, the American West, various countries etc. Notable pieces include a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier; a story on the benefit of the telegraph over the telephone; Perils of a linesman's life, a story of guarding a telegraph wire in Sumatra (p. 79); Cerinthy by Harriet Beecher Stowe (p. 118); Dust by Celia Thaxter (p. 132); "A Faithful Friend" being a story with an illustration depicting an African-American nanny (p. 135); Witchcraft at Deacon Wiggins by Harriet Beecher Stowe (p. 211); Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Louisa May Alcott (p. 213); fish-farming in New Hampshire (p. 225); a day at the empress school in Tokyo (p. 387); The Indian's Recompense by Harriet Beecher Stowe (p 490); "My recollections of Chinese School Life" (p. 505); Occupations for women discussing how professional nurses are trained (p. 508); an article on shooting porpoises off Manan Island, Maine (p. 551); stories of the White Mountains in New Hampshire (p. 51, 1883); ivory hunt in Salangore (p. 151, 1883); illustrated article on the Brooklyn Bridge (p. 216, 1883); articles on traveling through Siberia, hippo hunting, telegraph workers strike, travel in the Arctic, customs of Chinese people, many pieces on life in the American West, etc. GOOD condition. Small label at the foot of the spine. Heavy scuffing, peeling, splitting and wear to the leather along the hinges and corners. Uneven fading. Some soiling and moderate scuffing. Endpapers foxed, folded and creased. Minor toning and scattered foxing/soiling in the interior. Many pages bear horizontal fold creases, with some having large tears along the folds. Two leaves in the 1883 section almost detached.

Price: $90.00