Student and Schoolmate and Forrester's Boys & Girls Magazine, A Reader for Schools & Families., Vol. IX, January 1860
by ADAMS, W.T., N.A. CALKINS, Father FORRESTER, editors
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- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Robinson, Greene & Co, 1860. Wraps. Very good. 8vo; 39, [1]pp + [12] advertising; pictorial printed tan wrapper, advertisements to rear; publisher's string binding; wood engraved illustrations; light soiling to wrapper, chipping and small closed tears, one 2" closed tear to bottom front wrapper, cracking of wrapper over spine but holding; very good minus. None held in WorldCat libraries for 1860, and few for other years. Several stories, poems, a dramatic reading or drama titled, "Lunaria, or the Visitor From the Moon", and set in verse. Also, a musical score with words and 12 pages of advertisements plus both inside wrappers. The ongoing feature article, Young Philosopher, by W.T. Adams, discusses hot air balloons and features vignette illustrations of a hot air balloon and Niagara Falls. Advertisements are not limited to the usual of a juvenile periodical, more juvenile books, but include one for melodeons and harmoniums, premiums advertised for submitting names for subscriptions, Congregational church publications, and many for cures and treatments. Among the medical ads is a full page advertisement for Burnett's Cocaine, useful for dandruff, baldness and hair loss.
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- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 787
- Title
- Student and Schoolmate and Forrester's Boys & Girls Magazine, A Reader for Schools & Families., Vol. IX, January 1860
- Author
- ADAMS, W.T., N.A. CALKINS, Father FORRESTER, editors
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Robinson, Greene & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- Periodical
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Worldcat
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...