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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Anonymous. Not Lost, But Laid Aside. A True Story. NY: General Protestant Episcopal S. School Union, and Church Book Society 762 Broadway, 1861, 1st edition, 68 pp. *** Dedication page - Published by The Sunday School of Christ Church, Andover, Mass. Woodblock engraved frontis. illustration, and head piece on first page of story. Most likely "based" on a true story. Little Rosa Leigh has a sprained ankle which is being tended to by her Aunt Ellen. Rosa is miserable because she is going to miss a picnic, plus her injury hurts. Aunt Ellen distracts her with a story about her friend Mary Bennett, who is clerk for a small grocer. What follows is essentially a sermon in story form about life, death, right, wrong, faith, loyalty, and other related topics of Christianity. Gift inscription in old script on front free end paper. Very, very scarce book. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Dark reddish brown cloth boards and spine with gilt lettering and floral decoration on front cover, blind stamped oval decoration on back cover, blind stamped ruled lines on both covers, much faded gilt floral decoration on spine. Cosmetic flaw on front cover just beneath lettering. Wear at corners, top of spine with a little chipping, bottom of spine moderately frayed. Contents complete in good binding. Front hinge repaired, a bit tender. Tide mark at bottom on both sides of gutter goes up for about 1.5 inches, more pronounced at back, vary faint at front. VG condition. *** 6.25 inches tall by 4 inches.…