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1858 American Book Company. Good cloth and pictorial paper over boards hardcover. Revised and enlarged edition. Boards edges rubbed and worn with age soiling. Penciled inscription on fep. Pages unmarked with age toning and scattered foxing, a few small edge tears. Among the illustrations in the book is one on page 23 called "The Play-Ground" that depicts, among several other activities, a boy batting a pitched ball. Unlike most pre-Civil War baseball illustrations, the batter has actually assumed a likely looking stance that could possibly result in success.

1908 Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover in tan cloth boards with green titles & borders. Some fading to spine, a few small age stains. Green top edge. 242 clean unmarked pages with a few spots of scattered foxing. 8vo. Wyeth frontispiece titled Hiawatha Fishing. Black & white drawings by Remington throughout the text. Text & illustrations clean. I

1867 Harper & Brothers Publishers. Dark brown covers with black leather backstrip. Faded gilt titles on spine. Page ends ornately stained. FO signature 1867 on fep. Heavy edge and corner wear. Binding is secure and book is square. Interior in quite nice shape for 150 year old book, some age toning/foxing; 300 Small B&W Engravings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 382 pages.