Lotus-Eating: A Summer Book.

Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. 5 3/8" x 7 5/8." 206 pages, complete. Ten additional pages of advertisements for other books in the back. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. A black ink stain measuring about 1/1/4" is on the front cover. There is no wear to the binding. Occasional moderate foxing to the text. A collection of prose and poetry about American landscapes by noted writer and civil rights activist George William Curis (1824-1892). The following Contents are listed: "The Hudson and the Rhine," "Catskill," "Catskill Falls," "Trenton," "Niagara," "Niagara, Again," "Saratoga," "Lake George," "Nahant," "Newport," and "Newport, Again." Listed in the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) as no. 4263.