The Luxury of Children and other Luxuries.
New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1904 tp; green cloth with oval plate and gilt titles, top edge gilt; 8 two toned orange or green plates incl. tissue guarded frontis as issued, little margin drawings with orange highlights repeat every 16 pages; 6.25x9.25; [x] 314 pp. Reference childhood, hardback.
A long essay on the delights and some of the challenges of raising children, sympathetic to the young. The author, a religious poet and writer, founded the Harvard Lampoon and, with others, Life magazine (originally intended as a humor magazine.).
CONDITION: Very Good; faded, darkened spine with wear to ends, clean with many pages uncut. Item #16507
Price: $40.00
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