Books with author NULL Francis Hopkinson Smith

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. First Edition, Fourth Printing (November, 1909). First printing was in September, 1909. Second was also in September. Third was in October, and this fourth printing was in November. Frontispiece and tissue guard are present, both in perfect condition. Octavo, green cloth with white, gilt and black imprinting on cover and spine (see scans), 224 pp. + 4 pp. ads. Extraordinarily handsome, clean, bright and tight copy; Very Good, but close to Near Fine. SOme wear at spine, just tiny touches elsewhere; name of an early owner quaintly inked in cursive on the ffep. Please see scans. Short stories from the legendary Francis Hopkinson Smith. L-28

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Excerpt from Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the HeroPeter was still poring over his ledger one dark afternoon in December, his bald head glistening like a huge ostrich egg under the flare of the overhead gas jets, when Pat rick, the night watchman, catching sight of my face peering through the outer grating, opened the door of the Bank.The sight so late in the day was an unusual one, for in all the years that l have called at the Bank - ten, now - no, eleven since we first knew each other - Peter had seldom failed to be ready for our walk uptown when the old moon faced clock high up on the wall above the stove pointed at four.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.