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Gay and Bird, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. 224 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green and brown cloth with gilt lettering. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Rough cut pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1893, later edition, 12mo, 224pp. Top edge gilt, extremities worn, moderate soiling, else Fair. A book of essays; the author's first book..

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. No dust jacket. Award presentation pastedown inside front cover along with 19th century Baltimore bookstore label (John Murphy & Co.). Moderate aging to exterior boards. One corner bumped.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. c.1888. Hardcover. Cloth spine, paper spine label. 12mo. 224pp. Ex-Library with minor library markings - library bookplate with 'Withdrawn' stamp, call number in pencil on copyright page, stamp on rare pastedown. Very Good. Spine label rubbed / darkened, spine darkened, rubbing at spine-ends, mild darkening to boards.

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Boston MA: Houghton, Mifflin And Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn. Spine ends compressed. Spine label worn. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Boston: Houghtom Mifflin Company. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1888. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full gray linen, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g. Agnes Repplier (1855-1950) was an American essayist. She was born in Philadelphia in 1855 and was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Eden Hall at Torresdale, Philadelphia, and later at the Agnes Irwin School. Repplier was reputedly expelled from two schools for "independent behaviour." Despite her school experiences, she became one of America's chief representatives of the discursive essay, displaying wide reading and apt quotation. Her writings contain literary criticism as well as comments on contemporary life. These characteristics were already apparent in the first essay which she contributed to the Atlantic Monthly (April 1886), entitled “Children, Past and Present.” Repplier's earliest national publications appeared in 1881 in Catholic World. Although she did… Leer más

Book. Good. Binding see description. London, 1893. 224pp. + 15pp adverts. Cloth.*Contains a.o. a chapter: What Children Read (= pp. 64-94). 0.

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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, c1900. Leather. Good. 7" by 5". Not Stated. A collection of essays by the popular American essayist Agnes Repplier, looking at the effect of reading on children, and her school days. In two volumes. These two woks are collections of essays by the American essayist Agnes Repplier. 'Books and Men' looks as children, discussing how they are brought up, and how they are affecting by what they read as they are growing up. 'In Our Convent Days' looks at the school days of the author, at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Eden Hall at Torresdale, Philadelphia. Agnes Repplier was one of America's chief essayists of her time, writing literary criticism, as well as comments on contemporary life. Some of her other essay collections include 'Points of View', 'Americans and Others', 'Times and Tendencies, and more. 'In Our Convent Days' is dated 1906 and is the fourth impression. 'Books and Men' is the thirteenth impression, Copac gives the… Leer más

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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.