The Children's Own Story Book

Published by Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co. 1916

  • First Edition
  • Hardcover
  • Used
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Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.Great Expectations Rare Books

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Yellow pictorial cloth. Extensively illustrated by Hazeltine Sewsmith in green, orange and red. Cloth quite age soiled, with small stain on rear board at outer hinge. A tight, sound copy, internally very clean. Containing 66 short tales written for chlidren. Several, such as the traditional "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "Hansel and Gretel" provide the usual in juvenivle entertainment. However, the vast majority of tales are more didactic and educational, offering samples of a wide range of historical material. English history is touched upon with tales about King Alfred, William of Normandy, King John, Robert the Bruce, Henry the Eighth, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, et alia. America is represented by essays on Eskimo children, St. Augustine, Fl., and Ulysses S. Grant. Even the classics are touched upon with accounts of Zeus, the fall of Troy, Phaeton, Romulus, Themistocles, et alia. A most interestin g collection. A good, tightly bound, internally clean copy with former ownership inscription on front end-paper, dated 1917. Good.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
The Children's Own Story Book
Author
Carson, Norma Bright [and] Bright, Florence E.
Publisher
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Co. 1916
Condition
Good
Dust jacket
Not Issued
Binding
Pictorial Cover
Edition
First Edition
Dimensions
4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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Great Expectations Rare Books

Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.

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We are a generalist bookseller who has been selling online since 2003. Our goal is to provide our customers with the best books at the best prices. As a used and antiquarian seller all of our copies are unique and our stock is limited by our ability to source new material from a variety of venues. We strive to describe our books as accurately as possible and have embarked on a policy of adding at least one photograph for each new listing added. Older entries in our database may not include a picture, if this is so please request one and we will gladly send it to you via email.…

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