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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1924. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Boards Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. SUB-TITLE: Written Down by Their Mother. CONTENTS: The Sayings of the Children: Chapters I--XX; Further Sayings: Chapters I-V; "The Intruders," from Star-Dust by Pamela Grey. EXCERPT: Chapter I - It was William Barnes, the Dorsetshire poet, who said all Mothers should keep a book wherein to write the sayings of their children. "Because," said he, "the language of a child is interesting to the philologist. When a child speaks of honey as bee-jam it reveals the creation of language." Every child has no doubt expressed itself excellently well in its turn, and many are the precious sayings that must have been lost, in the hearing of illiterate or careless companions. Some, however have been held fast, and these survive to freshen thought and language.... Fifth Edition Augmented and Revised.…
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The Sayings of the Children
by Grey, Pamela \(Lady Grey of Fallodon\)
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Fair. First Edition, in original unclipped jacket. Clean decorated paper-covered cloth boards with clean gray cloth spine, clean unworn paper paste-on title label on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 214 pages, with blank pages for the mother-reader to record the sayings of her own children. Dustjacket in fair condition with chips, tears and piece missing at top of rear panel -- what's there is clean, with a lovely portrait of the author on front panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A lovely book recording some of the wise and humorous sayings and thoughts of children,plus a section on "What children should read", "The Bible Lesson", and "Some Prayers and Invocations for the Use of Children.".
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- Publisher Frederick A. Stokes
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1925
- Keywords PARENTING, MOTHERHOOD, CHILDREN, RAISING CHILDREN'S SAYINGS, LITERATURE
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Sayings of the Children (with Further Sayings), The
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Sayings of the Children: Written Down By Their Mother
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925. 214pp Frontispiece by Holman Hunt Note to Lady Grey (two pages) inside front cover from Mildred Whitney Stillman praising the book. Pastedown on front facing page of portrait of Lady Grey from the New York Evening Post 1925 Literary Review Also 2pp note from the Saturday Review of Literature to "The Viscountess Grey of Fallodon" Note is typed with typing errors errors corrected and signed by Mary Lauberton (?) Becker of the Saturday Review of Literature This book appears to be the author's personal copy with ephemera attached. Edges of cover are scuffed with wear at corners (boards showing) Photos available on request. . Cloth Hardbound. Good+.
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