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Hardcover, original blue and black paste-down pictorial boards (children with hoop and rabbits on front board, McGuffey's Revised Reading Charts on rear), brown cloth spine, marbeled edges, 162 pp, nicely illustrated with black and white drawings of Victorian domestic scenes, country life, animals, natural history themes, etc. Good, no dustjacket, as issued. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, two approximately 1/2 inch chips off paste-down on front board, and a 1/8th to 1/2 inch deep by 3 inch long chip off side edge of rear board, (text unaffected), some foxing and scuffing. Internally, contemporary previous owner's sgn on first free front endpaper and a 1932 one on second free front endpaper, front and rear hinges cracked, some soil on endpapers, a few stray nicks and chips and bit of foxing, but otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. School; children's.

Hardcover, original blue and black paste-down pictorial boards (children with hoop and rabbits on front board, McGuffey's Revised Reading Charts on rear), brown cloth spine, marbeled edges, 162 pp, nicely illustrated with black and white drawings of Victorian domestic scenes, country life, animals, natural history themes, etc. Good, no dustjacket, as issued. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, two approximately 1/2 inch chips off paste-down on front board, and a 1/8th to 1/2 inch deep by 3 inch long chip off side edge of rear board, (text unaffected), some foxing and scuffing. Internally, contemporary previous owner's sgn on first free front endpaper and a 1932 one on second free front endpaper, front and rear hinges cracked, some soil on endpapers, a few stray nicks and chips and bit of foxing, but otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. School; children's.