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Published by Fields, Osgood and Co., Boston, 1869
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good Minus. Bound wraps, orange paper cover, worn spine, discoloration, sound binding. A very interesting publication that later was incorporated into the better know St. Nicholas Magazine. Some notable features: bound in by the publisher is a note paper for requesting a subscription, it was used for a child as a copy page (written Little Miss Riding Hood poem by Lucy Larcom). Frontispiece plate damp-stained, balance of this issue has light age toning and minor foxing with no other writing. Article "The World We Live On What are Corals" by Elizabeth Agassiz. several pages with illustrations. "Wrecks and Wreckers" short story by Major Traverse with illustrations. A very fine woodcut plate by Granville Perkins "Launching the Life-Boat." A four page poem by William Allen Butler with illustrations. A short play by poet and dramatist Epes Sargent, "The Excitement at Kettleville" a play concerning "women's right's movement" and "equal pay". Several men argue about the forthcoming lectures on women's rights by by Miss Hathaway. In the end all the men agree to attend the lecture.