Dot: The Story of a City Waif

(pictorial cloth; no dust jacket) [spine turned, bumping/wear/fraying at most corners, slight exposure of boards at tips, remnants of mostly-erased pencil scribbling on page 94; binding is intact]. (12 pen and ink drawings) Pulpy tale, with heavy religious overtones, of a young girl whose desperate and destitute mother (spoiler alert!) dies about one-third of the way through the narrative, leaving poor Dot to fend for herself on the mean streets of the city. (The city is unidentified, although from the vernacular -- and also the fact that the book was first published three years earlier in England, by Hodder and Stoughton -- we can reasonably surmise that it's London.) At the end of the book is an incomplete catalogue of the publisher's other offerings (pages numbered 5 through 8, and confined to titles beginning with "A" and "B" only).

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Publisher: James H. Earle, Publisher

Year: 1888

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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