Promises in the Attic by Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood

Missing page corner as depicted, affecting the first front illustration page, affects a small amount of caption text, and the edges of 2 photos.

Has small bookworm hole affecting the upper right corner of pages 23- 83, completely out of the way of any text and only about 1/2 inch in depth. Interior tanning heavily from age and book has light warping from age and moisture. Tipped plate of American flag on center of front board. This book has blue cloth with navy and red text and design. Book has heavier corner wear to board corners and edges, and spinefoot, and aging and some soiling to cloth. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, '.a… The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8'/21cm h. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. The main sections concern Florida's trip to Niagara in summer 1863, the journey form Beltsville Maryland to Pendleton South Carolina at the end of the 1864, and the last says of Floride's grandmother Mr.s John C. The main body of the book is Floride's journal from January 1863 until 1866. The Revised edition includes additional material in the form of letters between Floride and her mother Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson between July-October 1863 at the height of the Civil War. Illustrated by Olivia Jackson McGee with additional black and white photo reproductions. 0.75' X 6.25' X 9.25' 2cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Part of the series 'Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South'. Book has some light shelf wear to corners and spine is slightly canted. Book itself is clean and free of any markings except for previous owner's name on first page (Jeanne M. Top edge of jacket slightly flared but overall in excellent condition.

Promises in the Attic by Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood