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Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Rare vintage copy. no date in book. 224 pages. Red-gold page edges; pages have minor wear; image of Longfellow in oval surround in frontispiece. Spine weakened but pages intact. no markings on pages; small tears on front inside blank page and frontispiece. Pages are in very good condition. However, Hard covers severly damaged; Front cover of original leather has been completely excised from underlying cardboard; back cover has only a portion of the maroon leather attached; spine has no outer cover with underlying cardboard and cloth stitching exposed. Covers almost entirely detached from pages-held only by cloth threads.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. m t Penny Ross (illustrator). Rare vintage book of color illustrated variety of flowers using children' s faces! 80 pages; Pages tight; glossy; no markings on pages; previous owner name and date on front inside page. minor page wear; slight yellowing of pages; Hard cover with lavendar background; purple lettering; illustrations of girls and small children dressed in flowing floral costumes dancing. Faded red spine;; Some rubbing and chipping on outside edges and corners. Wear on corners down to exposed cardboard; spine tight; Each page contains a poem and color illustration of over 60 old fasioned common garden flowers--including asters; bluebell; cockscomb; dandelion; foxglove; holly; larkspur; lily of the valley; pansy; phlox; rose, sweet peas; violet, etc. Rear of book contains several pages of poem about flowers every child should know bya varietyof poets-Lowell; Burns; Tennyson; Keats; Wordsworth; Taylor, etc.