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Riley, James Whitcomb Old School Days Romances Indianapolis, Indiana Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1909 Hard Cover Very Good+ with no dust jacket Illustrated by E. Stetson Crawford 8vo ; Unpaginated. Olive green cloth with gold lettering on spine and decorated paste down label (6.25" x 5") on front board. Extremities show very minor wear and rubbing. 'Tis a rather quite nice book printed on a low sheen calendar-paper card stock. Many illustrations (10) are full page with remainder having a vine border with illustration on top quarter. Wonderfully poetic reminiscences about the Friday afternoon school exercises and romances both true and imagined, that happened in a small Scottish elementary school. In grade 8, I had a teacher who read from a book of her choice for 1 to 2 hours each Friday afternoon. We all hung on every word she read, laughed ourselves silly at the funny parts, cried rivers of tears when the sad parts came and cheered ourselves hoarse when victory was won. She would often laugh louder and cry longer than any of us ever did. She was Sister Pauline of the Sisters of St. Joseph and probably long dead now. This book put me in mind of her. God bless her. Price: 27.00 USD
