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The singing mouse stories / by E. Hough.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 H8146 895s 1896
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hough, Emerson, 1857-1923.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Manufacture:
- Chicago : Printed at the Press of Geo. E. Cole & Co.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1896.
- Contents:
- The land of the singing mouse
- The burden of a song
- The little river
- What the waters said
- Lake Belle-Marie
- The skull and the rose
- The man of the mountain
- At the place of the oaks
- The birth of the hours
- The tear and the smile
- How the mountains ate up the plains
- The beast terrible
- The passing of men
- The house of truth
- Where the city went
- The bell and the shadows.
- Notes:
- Illustrated by W. S. Phillips.
- Author's first book.
- Vignettes and marginal sketches.
- Dark yellowish-green buckram cloth with front and back covers ruled in gilt. Front cover has woman's hand playing the lyre with three trees in the background with title and author lettered in gilt at bottom; back cover has mouse in front of a musical staff within a single-ruled rectangular panel. Top edge gilt stained.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has front free endpaper wanting.
- OCLC:
- 11228348
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