Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; viii, 339, [1] pages
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1906, New York and London

[Book #19969]

A very attractive, Nearly Fine First Edition in gilt stamped red cloth, frontispiece with tissue gard present, light offsetting to endpapers. In the scarce, only lightly chipped dust-jacket. With publisher's advertisement marker introducing Silas Strong and other Bacheller titles;

"And a little child shall lead them". Bacheller's story is laid in the forests of the Adirondacks. "Uncle Sile" is a philosopher or the wooks who thinks much and says little - a "one-word man," but a genuine humorist, with fountains of sly laughter in him. The heroine is a delightful daughter of the woodlands, and her romance breathes of the mountain air...