Playdays: A Book of Stories for Children

Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company / The Riverside Press, 1878. First Edition. Octavo (18cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [ii],[5],6-213,[5]pp. Previous owner's gift inscription and 1883 date inked to front endpaper. Small losses of cloth to spine ends and corners, shelf-soil, rubbing to spine and board edges, pencilled notes to fly leaves, light foxing and soil to text, and occasional marginal creases; Very Good. Children's short-story collection, includes "The Water Dolly", "The Kitten's Ghost", and "Patty's Dull Christmas". BAL 10874. (Inventory #: 84831)