Tales Out Of School. New Edition. by Stockton, Frank R. (Richard), 1839-1902 - 1894

N.Y., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. First published 1876. A collection of 38 stories of various length, fiction and non-fiction. "Colonel Myles' Adventures in Africa and India" is a 30-page account of big-game hunting of elephants and tigers; "Silver Plating" is but three pages (with a wood engraving) of the process; "Owls on a Frolic" is a poem with illustration of our favorite avian having fun. "Tom Reynolds and Moriyama" is set in a Japanese school. Hard Cover. iv, 325 pages, illus., 21. 5 cm Good+, colored pictorial boards, worn at edges, but sharp and clean. [RISD] Stock#30719.