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Four Victorian Novels! Three are First Editions:
1) Nichols, Laura D. Overhead; What Harry and Nelly Discovered in the Heavens. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Bound in original Victorian cloth. Color illustrated embossing on spine and cover. Approximately 8 1/2''. Complete in one volume. D Lothrop Company, Boston. 1878.
Good condition. Binding attached and sound. Some general rubbing. Free of foxing. Some fading. Owner's stamp.
Includes an introduction by Leonard Waldo, a preface, wide margins and large print. A book about discovery, both inside and out. "This little book is not meant for a text-book even in the most modest of the "Institutes" for which some sections of our country are so justly - we'll say - notorious. It belongs in the nursery - intermediate between Cinderella and Robinson Crusoe." - Leonard Waldo, Preface.
Together with:
2) Major, Charles. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Bound in original blue cloth. Color illustrated spine and cover. Gilded title between two crests above an illustration of Haddon Hall. Top edge gilded. 7 3/4''. Complete in one volume. The MacMillan Company, New York. 1902.
Good+. Hinges fully attached, sound. Light general rubbing. Clean, bright interior. Bold text. Free of foxing, writing. Early bookplate.
Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Includes full page plates and a list of illustrations. A well preserved copy of this first edition.
An historical novel following the life and romances of Dorothy Vernon in Elizabethan England. Dorothy's clandestine relationship with John Manners suffers due to her father's disapproval.
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3) Stratton-Porter, Gene. A Girl of the Limberlost. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Bound in original cloth. Illustrated spine and cover, flower motif. Approximately 7 3/4''. Complete in one volume. Grosset & Dunlap, New York. 1909.
Good+. Hinges fully attached, sound. Light general rubbing. Free of foxing, some fading. Name in pencil.
Illustrations by Wladysaw T. Benda. Includes frontis and several full-page plates.
Elnora Comstock, a poor girl living with her widowed mother is just beginning high school, where her painfully unfashionable dress adds to her difficulty blending in with the other students.
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4) Stratton-Porter, Gene. Freckles. Illustrated. Bound in original green cloth. untrimmed edges. Illustrated end-papers, boy on a bridge. Approximately 8''. Complete in one volume. Grosset and Dunlap, New York. 1914.
Hinges fully intact, sound. Light general rubbing. Isolated foxing in middle. Light fading. Early inscription in pencil. Good condition.
Illustrations by Thomas Fogarty. Includes color frontispiece.
Freckles, a one-handed adult orphan, described as a "plucky waif" applies for a job guarding timber in the swamp. He develops an interest in the wildlife of the swamp and falls in love with the Swamp Angel.
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