The Ticket: A Starlight Story, Illustrated (First Edition, 1878, D. Lothrop & Co.)
Language: English
Published by D. Lothrop & Co., 1878
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Coffee Cat Books, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.Coffee Cat Books
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 89.77
Quantity: 1 available
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1878 antique Boston juvenile in the Starlight Stories series, w/ rear publisher advertisements for Wide Awake & Babyland & the "Patent Applied For" binding notation to the lower rear border. Good. Unmarked. First Edition. 1878. D. Lothrop & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Hardcover: blue paper-covered boards w/ multi-color pictorial front in red, black, gold & white, red & gold title banner; edge rubbing, corner bumping, surface scuffing. Blue cloth spine w/ softening to head & heel, rubbing to the extremities. Plain endpapers, moderate foxing & edge spotting to the front flyleaf. Wood-engraved frontispiece depicting a country church w/ steeple, b&w wood-engraved illustrations & in-text decorative vignettes throughout. Interior pages w/ moderate scattered foxing & spotting, text legible throughout. Unpaginated. 4.25x6.25" (12mo). Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The Ticket is a Boston juvenile reward volume published circa 1878 by D. Lothrop & Co. in the Starlight Stories series, written under the name Mrs. L. M. Childs. The moral narrative follows a young boy's change of heart after receiving a Scripture ticket at Sunday school, and the volume pairs that prose w/ natural history verse including The Autumn Bird. The lead story, The Sabbath School Ticket, sets the boy's conscience and reform against a severe winter. Wood-engraved illustrations, decorative initial letters and pastoral tailpiece vignettes run through the text. A wood-engraved frontispiece depicts a country church w/ its steeple and graveyard path. The rear cover advertises Daniel Lothrop's juvenile periodicals Wide Awake, launched in 1875 at $2.00 a year, and Babyland, launched in late 1877 at $0.50 a year under editor Ella Farman Pratt. The lower rear border carries the notation PATENT APPLIED FOR, matching Lothrop's 1877-1878 binding design patent for the pictorial pocket series. Lothrop produced these small moral volumes as seasonal reward runs. Lydia Maria Child's work in early American children's literature began w/ the periodical The Juvenile Miscellany. Child was an American author, abolitionist and journalist whose moral stories were carried by denominational and educational publishers of the period. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Ticket: A Starlight Story, Illustrated (First Edition, 1878, D. Lothrop & Co.)
- Author
- Mrs. L. M. Childs; Lydia Maria Child
- Publisher
- D. Lothrop & Co.
- Publication year
- 1878
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 29 ounces
- Dimensions
- 4.25 x 6.25 in
- Seller catalogs
- Antiquarian
Coffee Cat Books
Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 15, 2021
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