A Boy's Town, Described for "Harper's Young People"
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition. First Printing, with all points per BAL. Octavo (19.25cm); blue-green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver and gilt on spine and front cover; vi,247pp, with frontispiece and 22 illustrations. Contemporary owners name to front pastedown, hint of sunning to spine cloth, light wear to spine ends, with a hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine.
Handsome copy of Howell's record of his boyhood years in Hamilton, Ohio, written while he served on the editoria; staff of Harper's Magazine. BAL 9654; COYLE, p.322.
Price: $100.00