St. Nicholas: Magazine: Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, Vol. VII pt. 2 1880 (6 volumes/6 months, Contains May thru Oct. issues) by ed. Mary Mapes Dodge

New York: The Century Co, 1893. Hardcover. Good. 480p. A red cloth hardcover book with gilt-decorated cover. Edges and corners rubbed; boards showing through. Rear hinge partly cracked; all covers and pages remain attached and secure for normal handling. Text clean. A nice vintage copy overall. Bound issues of the St. Nicholas children's magazine, full of stories and black-and-white illustrations. This volume includes "The Soldiering of Beniah Stidham" by Howard Pyle, "The Potted Princess" by Rudyard Kipling, and installments of "Polly Oliver's Problem" by Kate Douglas Wiggin, author of the beloved "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

New York: The Century Co, 1883. Cloth/no dust jacket. Quarto. Hardcover. Poor. Red illustrated boards with title in gilt. Heavily illustrated and a good time to read. Part II: viii + 483-960pp. Includes work by Louisa May Alcott and Sarah Orne Jewett among many others no dust jacket.

New York: Century Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. Pages 483-959, numerous b/w illustrations, decorated endpapers, large 8vo; red cloth/black and gilt decoration front and spine, beveled edges. Includes 3-part story Little Ike Templin, a young black boy with all the cliches of the period, by Richard Malcolm Johnston, announcement of the death of Louisa M. Alcott with some of her letters written to John Preston True when he was a boy, two of Palmer Cox's illustrated Brownie poems, Kite and Orchard, dogs of noted Americans. Good- condition, spine mended, 2" missing top, slight loss at foot of spine, corners worn, split in cloth at gutters, tear front endpapers; contents very good- 0.

New York: Century Book. Good. Hardcover. 480 pages, numerous b/w illustrations, decorated endpapers, large 8vo; red cloth/black/ gilt decoration front and spine, beveled edges. Includes 3 Brownie illustrated poems by Palmer Cox (Bicycle, Tobaggan, Circus), story The Candy Country by Louisa M. Alcott. Good condition, cover corner/spine ends frayed with some loss, rear outer gutter split, inner hinge broken, a few margin smudges; contents very good 0.

New York: Century, 1887. First. hardcover. very good(+). Short 4to, publisher's 1/2 red leather over marbled boards; all edges red. New York: The Century, 1887. First editions. A very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/> Profusely illustrated in black & white, including poetry and prose by Palmer Cox, Louisa May Alcott, Mary E. Wilkins, Celia Thaxter, Frank Stockton, etc., etc.<br/> <br/>