Silas Strong, Emperor Of The Woods

Book Description

New York and London: Harper & Brothers. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1906. First Edition; First Printing. Original Cloth. 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... .

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