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Hardcover. First edition (NAP) . Hardcover, 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches, in original quarter leather (spine) and marbeled paste-down paper covered boards, contents pages at rear, 128 pp, illustrated with frontispiece (drawing of Methodist Book Concern building) , plate of what is supposed to be a native of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) clad in fur(! ) , and five or six nanve in-text drawings, including one of two well dressed men fishing. Fair. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, scuffed, rubbed along joints of spine. Internally, missing free endpapers (starts with title page and ends with last page of contents) , illegible previous owner's inscription on paste-down front endpaper and title page (in pencil) , with "S S No 39" in faded brown ink on paste-down, 1 inch tear on title page and a few other leaves, MISSING pp 13-14 and lower 2/3 of another leaf (pp 29-30) , 1 leaf torn through center, foxed and tanned, but overall a decent enough reading copy. Children's anthology with extracts from period newspapers, magazines, books, some presumably original articles, poems, etc, which, besdies the expected religious material, includes a poem, "The Indians" by Mrs Sigourney, noting the numerous place names left of the vanished tribes, the Great American Desert, India, "The Honest Coloured Boy" an excerpt from a newpaper, in which an African-American youth in Providence, Rhode Island returns some lost money, story Nathaniel Olmstead Hammond of Chenango County, New York, etc. Children's; religion; Christian; history; travel; Victorian.…