Skippack School, Being the Story of Eli Schrawder and of one Christopher Dock, schoolmaster about the year 1750
[Garden City, New York]: Junior Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1939. Marguerite DE ANGELI. First Edition. Cloth. Marguerite DE ANGELI, illustrator. First edition. 8vo square; [88]pp; glazed brown buckram over board, stamped line drawing of a young boy with a book to front, title and author to spine; yellow pictorial endpapers; pictorial title page; color and b&w illustrations throughout; small crease to bottom corner title page; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of $2.00 on front flap, rear flap lists other books by the author, light chipping to head and tail of spine, soiling and age-toning of dust jacket; near fine in vg dust jacket. Baumgarten 58. Near fine / very good. Item #1205
Charming illustrations by the author and illustrator, Marguerite de Angeli (1889-1987). In this book she recounts the historical story of Christopher Dock, a humanist, at the Mennonite School near Skippack, Pennsylvania.
Price: $75.00