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First Edition. First printing of this edition. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt ttles; pictorial endpapers; 290pp; illus. Tight, clean and square; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. This copy amusingly inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "As a testament of ability to sell Good Books in Nashua / to Elizabeth M. Stevens from Goodman's Bookstore / W.P. Goodman," dated Dec. 1933. The venerable establishment of Goodman's, under the proprietorship of William P. Goodman and later his son, W.P. Goodman, Jr, was said to have held the largest stock of books of any New England bookseller north of Boston. Founded in Manchester in 1881, the firm persisted in business through at least the late 1980s.