The Youth's Friend, 1836

Philadelphia: American S. S. Union, 1836. First Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 5.75 x 3.5 inches, early or original dark red leather backed green boards, very good, general rubbing, soil, darkening to covers, contents somewhat foxed, especially outer pages. 192 pp, illustrated with woodcuts. Stories, poems and short essays, some on the people and creatures of the world. Contents include chapters on the Bengal adjutant, the boxfish, Celanese children, Detters prison, the Eagle and her young, "Frank and a convict," heathen children, the poor Irish boy, Kamchatka, the labrum, lamb and the altar, lords prayer inverse, the murdered mother, orange girl, outside and inside, the palm tree, Phillip and the Ethiopian, sailor and his book, sailor and little girl, C and ship, sites on a steamboat, the soldier crab, spectacles, the spoiled boy, two orphan boys, the wooden box, and much else. Very good. Item #H40842

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