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Includes:

• Farnsworth, Vesta J: The House We Live In, or, The Making of the Body. Pacific Press, Oakland, CA, 1900. Green cloth color-blocked in green and red on the upper board and spine, in the  publisher’s matching printed paper dust-wrapper; pp. 218, [4] (ads), frontis, numerous illustrations, some full-page, throughout. Scattered soiling to the cloth, contemporary gift inscription to the ffep, else fine; jacket with chipping at the spine tips, corners, and upper edge of rear panels, sunned spine with a closed tear, but attractive.
• Kernahan, Coulson: The Child, The Wise Man, and the Devil. James Bowden, London, 1896. Plain paper wrappers in the publisher’s printed and priced paper dust-wrapper; pp. 82, [3] (ads), [1] (colophon). Printed at the Gresham Press, the first trade edition. Text block edges dust-soiled, a little foxing internally, but generally bright and clean; the jacket spine is quite age-darkened, creased, with a short tear, spine tips neatly repaired, one chip to the upper rear turn-in. An attractive copy.
• Peck, Samuel Minturn: Cap and Bells. White Stokes, and Allen, New York, 1886. Plain card wraps, in the publisher’s printed paper french-fold dust-wrapper stamped in gilt and red; pp. vi, [164], title page printed in red ink. A little rubbing to the spine ends, else very good, with a previous owner name on the ffep; jacket was glued down to the spine, front panel detached, the upper and lower front flaps detached with one laid in, the other lacking, the upper rear flap also missing, chipping at the corners and tips.
• Wiggin, Kate Douglas: The Story of Patsy (Signed). Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press, Boston and New York, 1889. Original red-orange cloth, titles and illustrations stamped on the upper board and spine in black, in the publisher’s printed paper dust-wrapper; pp. [12], 68, plus frontis and inserted plates, and illustrated throughout in text. Author’s dated signature on the ffep. Board edges rubbed, offsetting from the jacket on the endpapers, very good or better; jacket is much chipped, with cello-tape repairs, lacking most of the spine. This title was first published in 1883 in San Francisco by C.A. Murdock to help raise money for the city’s first free kindergarten (The Silver Street Kindergarten) which was organized by Wiggin. The early publication was in wrappers and was reissued in wrappers several times until this national publication by Houghton Mifflin in 1889. BAL 22588.