UNCLE PETER'S TRUST OR FOLLOWING THE DRUMS

New York:Harper and Brothers. (1889). Presumed 1st edition. vi+283pp. Illustrated. Hardcover.  Decorated blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with wear to edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped and worn to boards. Internally floral end-pages very good, with an old bookseller ticket to bottom inside rear board, with an inscription to the 2nd free end-page for "Excellence in Scholarship" with an old inked price to top of same page. Otherwise, aside form light foxing scattered throughout, a very good copy. The binding is tight, front hinge cracked at inscription page and intact in rear.