Views: Mount Pleasant Academy Ossining-on-Hudson
by BRUSIE, CHARLES FREDERICK
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Piermont, New York, United States
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About This Item
Ossining: The Academy, N.d. (c.1895) "To the Old Boys of Mount Pleasant who know and love these scenes of their boyhood days, this little book of views is affectionately inscribed by the Principal." (Not inscribed in the signed sense.) A collection of photographs of every aspect of the school life of the cadets at the Hudson valley military academy, founded in 1814. Showing residences, classrooms, baeball teams, facilities, building exteriors, river views, cadets in uniform, etc. No text except captions. First edition. 21 cm; unpaged; 50 leaves of photogravures printed recto only with tissue guards. Wear to edges of wrappers; some tissue guards creased; illustrations on glossy paper all fine; matte paper of other illustrations with some tanning. A good copy or better in string-bound wrappers..
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- Bookseller
- Trevian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015071
- Title
- Views: Mount Pleasant Academy Ossining-on-Hudson
- Author
- BRUSIE, CHARLES FREDERICK
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Ossining: The Academy, N.d. (c.1895)
- Keywords
- New York Military School Hudson Valley
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