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Daisy Travers: Or Girls of Hive Hall
by Samuels, Adelaide F
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Daisy Travers: Or Girls of Hive Hall, Samuels, Adelaide F. Published by Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1876. First Edition. 'The Maidenhood Series'. Green cloth boards with decorative black and gilt front board and spine. Brown endpapers. 12mo up to 7½" tall. 284 pages plus frontis illustration with tissue guard; 4 blank pages at rear (no ads). In overall very nice condition: light wear to boards, binding is firm. Small cut to brown endpaper; there may be a missing blank page prior to frontis illustration. An occasional small foxing mark, otherwise text block is fine without markings, tears or folds.
She was nearly Sixteen; small, but faultless in form; with a sad, sweet face, deep blue eyes and hair - well, it was light, long and naturally curly; poor words to express all its beauty.
"Her short struggle with poverty had awakened in her a sympathy for the poor, that few girls of her age can understand. Her last charitable whim, the founding of Hive Hall, was one that would be likely to cause her much trouble, and anxiety, but if carried bravely through, her compensation would be evident. The twenty-five Children before her had been taken from miser ably-conducted country poor-houses, and bound to grandfather Milly: why they were there we will let Daisy tell".
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- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2474
- Title
- Daisy Travers: Or Girls of Hive Hall
- Author
- Samuels, Adelaide F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- COLLECTIBLE CHILDREN; LITERATURE;
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- Text Block
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
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- Poor
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