[vi], 166 pages of text. Original hardcover binding is heavily worn and soiled, with heavy fraying to the spine extremities, and the textblock has completely separated from the binding. The front endpaper has a full page inscription by the author to "Miss Clara Goldstein Christmas Gift 1905. You, Clara, are a good, honest girl with a fine expanding nature. You should make an excellent woman and I am sure you will. Yours, [signed] Charles Eugene Banks." The inscription page is torn and soiled, and many page of text are worn and soiled, and a few are torn or chipped. Illustrated with numerous color plates. The title page states Stone as the publisher, with the bottom of the spine reading Monarch Book Co. Size: Octavo (8vo).

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Title

A CHILD OF THE SUN. Signed and inscribed by Charles Eugene Banks.

Publisher

Herbert S. Stone & Company, Chicago

Publication Date

1905

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

Early edition.

Condition

Poor condition

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Signed by Author(s)

Book Type

Book

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Children's Literature

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