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Seller's Description:
First edition (NAP). Hardcover, in original paste-down paper covered pictorial boards (seashore scene of children with adult woman, and boy writing in the sand by John Karst on front board, decorative publisher's colophon on rear board ), black cloth spine, 160 pp, illustrated with drawings (frontispiece of classroom, and 4 in-text of various domestic scenes, including a nice one of children ice skating). Good, no dustjacket. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, four approximately 1 to 3 inch tears and some fraying along spine cloth, moderate scuffing, previous owner's sgn top edge of front board. Internally, children's sgns on front endpapers, 1/2 to1 inch tears on approximately 4 or 5 leaves, paper lightly age yellowed, hinges tender, a stray word or so underlined on approximately 4 or 5 pages, faint yellow pencil(? ) mark on 2 pages, but overall tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked, in somewhat better shape than the usual textbook of the period. School; children's; Victorian.
