Baldwin and Bender's Eighth Reader; Reading with Expression; Eight-book Series

Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. 258 pages with preface to the teacher; acknowledgments; in front; proper names and list of authors in rear. Poetry and prose by various authors including: Browning; Bunyan; burns; Columbus; Dumas; Eliot; Hawthorne; Holmes; Kipling; Lincoln; Longfellow; Lowell, Parker; Poe; Ryan Scott; Tennyson, Whitman; Winslow, etc. Several b & w illustrations. Pages moderate wear; penciling on several pages; smudges and soiling; page edges browned; Previous owner name penciled on front inside cover. Tan hard cover with brown lettering and illustration of lighted torch on cover. Blotches; fading, soiling, and rubbing on cover edges, corner and spine edges. Weakened inner spine crease with inner cloth exposed. but pages intact. Rare vintage school book.