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Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Paperback. 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…
Read More A Railroad Waif by Mrs. C. B. Sargent - 1885
by Mrs. C. B. Sargent
A Railroad Waif
by Mrs. C. B. Sargent
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- Hardcover
- first
Cincinnati and New York: Cranston and Stowe / Phillips and Hunt, 1885 Book. Very Good -. Hardcover. First Edition. Light exterior wear / marks. Rare copy of this post Civil War novel which looks to be about a "railroad waif", a Christian family, and a freed slave..
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good -
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Cranston and Stowe / Phillips and Hunt
- Place of Publication Cincinnati and New York
- Date Published 1885
- Keywords slavery, 19th nineteenth century American culture politics, Abolitionists, Dred scott decision, Abraham Lincoln, Antebellum, american civil War, American History 19th Nineteenth Century, History of America, american confederacy, Confederate States of amer