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Hardcover. First edition (NAP) . Hardcover, in original paste-down paper covered pictorial boards (seashore scene of children with adult woman, and boy writing in the sand by John Karst on front board, decorative publisher's colophon on rear board ) , black cloth spine, 160 pp, illustrated with drawings (frontispiece of classroom, and 4 in-text of various domestic scenes, including a nice one of children ice skating) . Good, no dustjacket. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, four approximately 1 to 3 inch tears and some fraying along spine cloth, moderate scuffing, previous owner's sgn top edge of front board. Internally, children's sgns on front endpapers, 1/2 to1 inch tears on approximately 4 or 5 leaves, paper lightly age yellowed, hinges tender, a stray word or so underlined on approximately 4 or 5 pages, faint yellow pencil(? ) mark on 2 pages, but overall tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked, in somewhat better shape than the usual textbook of the period. School; children's; Victorian.