Rare First edition. Mustard color hardcover with schoolboy in black and red with brown endpapers and ads in back. End papers have tears and hinges cracked. Freying to edges and corners, and soiling to covers. Illustrations in very good condition and text bright and crisp. Binding tight. " Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, to Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. The author George Cary Eggleston was his brother. As a child, he was too ill to regularly attend school, so his education was primarily provided by his father. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1856. He wrote a number... View More...
