Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, New Amsterdam Edition, 1909/1865, blue boards with elaborate gilt titles and grey design, a half tone illustration every few pages, many full page, others in text, 8vo; xiv + 393 pp + 6 pp Scribner's juvenile catalogue. Juvenile hardback.
Hans Brinker hopes to win the silver skates in the coming ice-skating race. A portrait of 19th c Dutch life, centering around a poor, loving family but also including long stretches of Dutch history and geography as a group of well to do children travel through Holland. This edition with quite a beautiful binding.
CONDITION: Very Good Plus; printed gold owner bookplate; tight, straight, clean; gilt and blue cloth very bright; pages flat and clean, only some tiny bleached spots on spine and top 1/2" margin of board, and one small corner bump keep this from being Fine. Item #19874
$80