Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness, Henry van Dyke, 1903, HC, VG.
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van Dyke, Henry. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.
English, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 7 3/4" x 5 1/4", 348 pp.
Navy blue illustrated cloth over board, featuring stamped gilt floral and dragonfly illustration with blue and green color to front, stamped gilt decoration to spine, stamped gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt top-edge, deckled edges, minor wear to edges and tips, name written in pen to front endpaper, small closed-tear to page with frontispiece, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. 14+ [2] 348 pp., replete with color illustrations by V. F. DuMond, "Prelude," "Little Rivers," "A Leaf of Spearmint," "Ampersand," "A Handful of Heather," "The Ristigouche from a Horse-Yacht," "Alpenrosen and Goat's-Milk," "Au Large," " Trout-Fishing in the Traun," "At the Sign of the Balsam Bough," " A Song after Sundown," and Index. Beautifully produced book written by American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman, Henry van Dyke (1852-1933).