Description
Rutledge Hill Press, Published 1996. Hardcover, 377 pp.; 20 cm; First Edition (with full number line); illustrated with black-and-white illustrations.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Quarter-bound in brown cloth with speckled tan paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, gold endpapers; mild shelf wear and edgewear to covers, binding tight. Thin black remainder mark to bottom edge of text block, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf wear, price intact. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Collects 28 stories by C. A. Stephens, the most popular contributor to the family magazine The Youth's Companion, where across some 55 years he published more than 1,500 stories. Drawn from his fictionalized recollections of boyhood among six orphans who found a home after the Civil War with their grandparents on a farm in rural Maine, the tales gather around the Old Squire's farm, among them a bank robbery, a stolen potato hybrid, children trapped overnight by wolves, and the Old Squire's mend-all tonic. Compiled and edited by Charles G. Waugh and Larry Glatz.