The little fig-tree stories / by Mary Hallock Foote ; with illustrations by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Houghton, Mifflin and Company, publisher.

Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Children.

Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life.

Parent and child--Juvenile fiction.

Parent and child.

Grandfathers--Juvenile fiction.

Grandfathers.

Children's stories.

Children--Conduct of life.

Genre:

Fiction

Juvenile works

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Fischer, Helen (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Mills, Miss (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 183, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm

Manufacture:

Cambridge : The Riverside Press.

Place of Publication:

Boston ; and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899.

Contents:

Flower of the almond and fruit of the fig

The lamb that couldn't "keep up"

Dream horses

An Idaho picnic

A visit to John's camp

November in the cañon

The gates on grandfather's farm

The garret at grandfather's

The spare bedroom at grandfather's.

Notes:

Publisher's advertisement precedes text.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("Helen Fischer From her teacher Miss Mills Dec 25 / 901") on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

OCLC:

3180332