Boston: Perry Mason and Co. Cloth. Good. Item #013502

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. Spans January 3, 1884 to December 31, 1885. Notable pieces include a poem by Bram Stoker, "One Thing Needful," being his first published poem (page 522 of 1885; a piece on a being shipwrecked on the coast of Japan (p. 2-3); a cowboy's pledge (p. 14); White Man's Big Powder, an Arizona Incident (p. 51); Mamie Dickens on Charles Dickens with his Children (p.51-52. 59-60); boys and girls in China and political leaders in China (p. 67-68); snowshoeing in Kentucky (p.71); marriage laws and customs of the Chinese (79-80); adventures in the late Cuban war (98-99, 106-107, 118-119); glimpses at life in Persia (107-108, 119-120); mechanical toys and games of the Chinese youth (131-132); an adventure in the Malacca Straits (166-167); In a Horse-Car by Celia Thaxter (170); The New York Stock Exchange (179-80); For Our Lives, a piece on Arizona (199); fishing on the upper Red River (207); through the Florida Everglades (247-48); Chinese babies (263); Among the headhunters of Borneo (293, 301, 309, 316-17, 325); a story of a young woman, "Merrimack" a former enslaved person, illustrated, (331-32); the Franco-Chinese War (366); baseball (366); Chinese athletic sports (389-90); in the Red River Country (440-41); Reminiscences of Charles Dickens by his daughter (489); This Side and That, a poem by George Macdonald (page 6 of 1885); The Hot Springs of Arkansas (19); progress in electricity (56); Native American rights (76); many pieces on life in the American West, including cattle drives, etc. GOOD condition. Heavy scuffing, peeling, splitting and wear to the leather along the hinges and corners. Uneven fading. Some soiling and moderate scuffing. Endpapers folded and creased. Minor toning and scattered foxing/soiling in the interior. First page and one page in the interior torn in half but intact. Pages 397-400 almost detached.

Price: $200.00