The Children of the Week Being the Honest and Only Authentic Account of Certain Stories, as Related By the Red Indian, to Alexander Selkirk, Jr by Peters, William Theodore, - 1886

Boston.: Dodd, Mead, and Company., 1886. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. VG-; Sun-faded binding w/ still readable titles. Weaker folio at center, otherwise tightly bound. Bumped corners. Lower edges, old moisture stain, from inside corner.. Peters, Clinton (pictures by).. 1 161 p. B&W Pen&Ink illustrations. 8x10.5in; Bold, dark green cloth covered boards w/Gilt cranes (3) in flight across wraparound cover; gilt titles in white box. Sturdy vellum pages. Lovely illustrations. Contents illustrated by girl whose bowling ball heads toward 9 pins; at end page, 9 pins are down. Many other well-executed b&w illustrations. For its age, a beautiful book.