Harper & Brothers; Muir, John; Hale, Edward Everett; Hardy, Thomas; Lossing, Benson J.; Harte, Bret; et al

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume LVII. [57], June to November, 1878.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2347091

Edges rubbed with some loss from spine head and foot, middle of front board edges depressed as if this volume was rubber-banded in a stack with other volumes previously, front endpapers a bit foxed, owner bookplate of John Greenway Jr. on front paste-down.

viii, 952 pp. Brown cloth, gilt titles. A collection of articles appearing in Harper's from June to November, 1878. Topics include: Henry M. Stanley in Africa; Thomas Bewick; John Muir on California's sequoia forests; New England dairy and livestock farms; [Charles] Dickens's Maypole Inn; Native American poetry; mid-19th century music in New York; portions of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native; Russian literature; Anthony Van Dyck; freedom of the press; etc.

Price: $40.00