AT HOME AND ABORAD A Sketch-Book of Life, Scenery and Men
$75.00 USD • Used
Gilt spine lettering faded. Some tears to top spine. Light dampstaining to endpapers. ; Second series. Bayard Taylor was a prolific travel writer but also wrote poetry. He won a contest set up by ...
Gilt spine lettering faded. Some tears to top spine. Light dampstaining to endpapers. ; Second series. Bayard Taylor was a prolific travel writer but also wrote poetry. He won a contest set up by B. T. Barnum for a poem that was later put into music and later sung by the "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind on her tour through America. Dark buckram boards with blindstamped linear decoration. Tissue guarded steel engraved frontispiece and half title page with very slight foxing. Chapters include: Country home in America, New Pictures from California, Home in the Thringian Forest, A walk in the Franconian Switzerland, Travels at Home [Hudson, Catskills, Bershire, Boston, Saco Valley, Ascent of Mount Washington, Montreal and Quebec, Up the Saguenay, Niagara, Trenton Falls and Saratoga], Personal Sketches. ; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 509 pages
Product Info
Publisher: G. P. Putnam
Year: 1862
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Seller Info
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