Tales Of The Day (13 Issues Bound In 3 Volumes) - : A Selection Containing the Best Stories of the Present Time
Tales of the Day (13 Issues Bound in 3 Volumes): A Selection Containing the Best Stories of the Present Time
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- Hardcover
This is a lot of 13 issues of the Civil War-era publication "TALES OF THE DAY - A Selection, Containing the Best Stories of the Present Time" bound in 3 volumes. Published by William Carter and Brother in Boston in the early 1860's. The issues contain works of fiction and poetry.
"The Tales issued in this publication of the Messrs. Carter are without exception high-toned in their moral character; most of them are attractive and entertaining; several of them are of thrilling interest; several of them are of superior worth in a didactic point of view; and, as a whole, they commend themselves to a cultivated literary taste. The prose stories are interspersed with poems, some of which are of a very high imaginative and poetical merit."
There are 13 issues in all, as follows:
1861 - May, August, September, October, November
1862 - January, February, April, May, June, August, December
1863 - April
Condition:
Overall the magazines are in good condition with some general wear to the covers, such as staining, tears and 2 issues have writing at the top edge. Mostly clean pages with occasional stains and foxing. All of the issues are securely bound within the volumes.
"The Tales issued in this publication of the Messrs. Carter are without exception high-toned in their moral character; most of them are attractive and entertaining; several of them are of thrilling interest; several of them are of superior worth in a didactic point of view; and, as a whole, they commend themselves to a cultivated literary taste. The prose stories are interspersed with poems, some of which are of a very high imaginative and poetical merit."
There are 13 issues in all, as follows:
1861 - May, August, September, October, November
1862 - January, February, April, May, June, August, December
1863 - April
Condition:
Overall the magazines are in good condition with some general wear to the covers, such as staining, tears and 2 issues have writing at the top edge. Mostly clean pages with occasional stains and foxing. All of the issues are securely bound within the volumes.
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Bookseller
CraigsClassics
(US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good+
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher William Carter and Brother
- Place of Publication Boston
- Date Published 1861, 1862, 1863
- Keywords tales of the day, old vintage antique magazines, civil war era, william carter brother, victor hugo, literature, literary, short storiesTa