New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, 1896.
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Hardcover. First edition, variant issue. Introduction by William Dean Howells. Mission Education Movement Library bookplate on the front pastedown, small paper label on the spine, some fraying to the spine ends, hinges neatly repaired. An about good copy. The author's first commercially published book, this is a scarce variant, probably published simultaneous with, or very soon after, the first edition. The contents of the book seem identical to the first edition, but bound differently, and with "Mission Study Reference Library" stamped on the spine. *BAL* makes no mention of this issue. *OCLC* locates seven copies (erroneously dated 1895). A not lovely copy but a very uncommon variant.
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