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Author: Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Title: BACKGROUNDS OF LITERATURE
Price: 12

Comments and Notes:

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1904 ("New edition, with additions") - Very Good to VG+ hardcover/ poor dust jacket (in mylar) - 8.25" tall - gilt lettered and decorated dark red cloth - top edge gilt - tissue guarded b/w frontis photo, 45 b/w ills & photos; b/w motifs - minor edgewear to clean, attractive covers, very faint endpaper foxing; June 1903 date on front endpaper, otherwise tight, clean, no marking of any kind - scarce dust jacket is sunned, with closed tears, heavily chipped backstrip, interior taping - 328 pages. The writers covered in this lavishly illustrated book by a leading literary critic of his day are: Wordsworth, Emerson, Washington Irving, Goethe, Blackmore, Scott, Whitman, and Hawthorne, and the locales associated with their lives and writing.



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