Buy this book on-line Paxson, Mary Scarborough : 1880-1884; Mary Scarborough Paxson: Her BookDoubleday, Doran & Company Inc., Garden City, NY, 1931
Original publisher's white patterned boards backed with green cloth in a gray (formerly white) patterned paper dust jacket. All-over small floral pattern on boards and dust jacket. Small color illustration of a girl and cat in a bucolic setting on front panel and front cover. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2." Ninety-eight pages, complete. Several small black-and-white illustrations by Pelagie Doane, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning, a few small faint stains, and slightly bumped corners. Dust jacket is clean and intact overall but has moderate darkening (dust jacket has turned from white to gray) and a few small faint stains. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. This book contains a printed version of a diary kept by Mary S. Paxson, a young girl from Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The grammar and spelling of her original entries are retained as she recounts, between the years 1880 and 1884, different day-to-day events in her life from the playful and charming to the solemn and heartbreaking. For example, Paxson writes about attending school; answering in class that the smallest animal with fur is a caterpillar; George Washington's birthday; the passing of one of her grandmothers; visiting relatives, playing and sewing with her sister, Maggie; the assassination attempt made against President Andrew Garfield and updates on his health; seeing an aurora borealis ("arora bory alice"); Garfield succumbing to his gunshot wounds; she and Maggie naming soldier-shaped candy they got after their Uncle Ben Shaw and Abraham Lincoln ("Abrum Linkum") but then changing their names to Benedict Arnold ("Benny Dick Arnuld") and Jefferson Davis ("Jeffersin Davis") before eating them; the passing of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; writing poetry; and traveling with her parents to Philadelphia.. Illustr.: Doane, Pelagie. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Paxson, Mary Scarborough : 1880-1884; Mary Scarborough Paxson: Her Book. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, livres rares, livres anciens, libri antichi and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |