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The tent on the beach, and dramatic lyrics

Margaret Neilson Armstrong American
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Company American
Author John Greenleaf Whittier American

1899

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Green ungrained cloth binding with design stamped in gold of beach, shells, crabs, and irises; title, author, publisher stamped in gold on spine; top edge gilt; red coated endpapers. Signed M.A. [Margaret Armstrong].

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Title: The tent on the beach, and dramatic lyrics

Artist: Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, New York 1867–1944 New York)

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston, Massachusetts)

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier (American, Haverhill, Massachusetts 1807–1892 Hampton Falls, New Hampshire)

Date: 1899

Geography: Boston, Massachusetts

Dimensions: 110 pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations ; Height: 7 7/8 in. (20 cm)

Credit Line: Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library

Object Number: Publishers Bindings 669

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