Red Apple, The, and Other Stories

124 pages; 16mo (6.25") 16 cm; Small hardcover, red-brown cloth, 124 pages, gilt lettering and black decor on front and spine, small color paste-down on front showing five little children playing, 3 b/w illustrations including frontispiece. ; Copyright 1878. This unit undated but we assume 1898. One volume of many hundreds published in the 19th century for the Christian education of little ones. This one includes 14 short stories featuring young protagonists in everyday life. ; Exterior worn, cloth frayed at heel and crown, juvenile scribbles in margins of three pages. 'Lorenzo Bingham, from Franklin Methodist Sabbath School, 1898, Aaron Higby, Teacher, A. A. Rust, Supt' in fountain pen on front endpaper. 'Lynn Anita MacDermaid' penciled on rear endpaper in old hand. Paste-down chipped around edges. Binding tight. ; Laid in: card with chromolithograph of a church, and, in fountain pen, 'Samuel Bingham, 3d Grade Completed, B. G. Sutton, Teacher, July 14, 1900.' ; Archie Vernon's Library Series