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HORACE HAZELWOOD - or Little Things and Other Tales
by Anonymous (editor) (Robert Hope Moncrieff; Rev. Frederick Whitfield; Adam White; Rev. H. T. Howat; Rev. Thomas Alexander; Hetty Bowman; Mona B. Bickerstaffe; Rev. J. Thomson; Rev. J. A. Wallace; Josephine Frances)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Walter Scott, 1885. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 12mo. 325 pp. Blue pictorial cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; bevelled edges. Edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the front panel; presentation plate on the front pastedown; some foxing on the endpapers; hinges tight; gutters intact. Illustrated with line drawings. This anthology contains: Horace Hazelwood or Little Things by Robert Hope Moncrieff; Working for God by Rev. Frederick Whitfield; God Keep My Child - verse by Paul Gerok; Sketches in India: Natives Nurses and Ayahs - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture First; The Whispering Shell - verse - Anonymous; The Story of a Bible - Anonymous; An Insect Which Saved the Life of a French Naturalist by Adam White; Come Home - verse by Bessie; The Thorn in the Foot by H.P.M; Little Travellers - Anonymous; The Story of a Drop of Water - Anonymous; The Lost Tool - Anonymous; The Child Known by His Doings by Rev. H. T. Howat; Ragged School Reminiscences - Anonymous; Circumspice - verse - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture Second; The Two Birthdays - Anonymous; Sunbeams - verse - Anonymous; The Beginning of Evil - Anonymous; Sketches in India: Native Girls' School - Anonymous; Honesty - Anonymous; An Egyptian Desert Snail in the British Museum by Adam White; A Birthday Letter - Anonymous; The Childhood of Jesus - verse - Anonymous; The Violet - Anonymous; Summer Flowers - Anonymous; The Way to Be Saved by Rev. Thomas Alexander; Kiss and Be Friends by Hetty Bowman; The Swallow - verse - Anonymous; Dioramic Sketches: The Chinese Missionary - Picture Third; Fables from the Farmyard by Mona B. Bickerstaffe; Little Servants - Anonymous; The Bible - Anonymous; The Stray Lamb - Anonymous; Rock Us in Thy Cradle - verse - Anonymous; The Christian Seaman - Anonymous; Little Peacemakers - Anonymous; Sketches of Swiss Scenery by Rev. J. Thomson; The Sunday Theatre - Anonymous; The Shepherd and His Flock - verse - Anonymous; The Two Cousins - Anonymous; Eugene the Little Rag Boy - Anonymous; The Repentant Child by Rev. J. A. Wallace; The Way to Paradise - verse - Anonymous; Herbert Kean by Josephine Frances; A Pure Heart - verse - Anonymous; and Autumn - Anonymous..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227375
- Title
- HORACE HAZELWOOD - or Little Things and Other Tales
- Author
- Anonymous (editor) (Robert Hope Moncrieff; Rev. Frederick Whitfield; Adam White; Rev. H. T. Howat; Rev. Thomas Alexander; Hetty Bowman; Mona B. Bickerstaffe; Rev. J. Thomson; Rev. J. A. Wallace; Josephine Frances)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- First Printing - First Thus
- Publisher
- Walter Scott
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- religion; christianity; india; british museum; naturalist; ephemera; cloth ornamental; decorative cloth; binding; pictorial boards;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
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