Ever since he was four years old, and had begun to think seriously, as a boy should, David Blaize had been aware that there was a real world lying somewhere just below the ordinary old thing in which his father and mother and nurse and the rest of the fast-asleep grown-up people lived. Boys began to get drowsy, he knew, about the time that they were ten, though they might still have occasional waking moments, and soon after that they went sound asleep, and lost all chance of ever seeing the real world. If you asked grown ...
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Ever since he was four years old, and had begun to think seriously, as a boy should, David Blaize had been aware that there was a real world lying somewhere just below the ordinary old thing in which his father and mother and nurse and the rest of the fast-asleep grown-up people lived. Boys began to get drowsy, he knew, about the time that they were ten, though they might still have occasional waking moments, and soon after that they went sound asleep, and lost all chance of ever seeing the real world. If you asked grown-ups some tremendously important question, such as 'Why do the leaves fall off the trees when there is glass on the lake?' as likely as not they would begin talking in their sleep about frost and sap, just as if that had got anything to do with the real reason.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Early printing, ca. 1918. Ticonderoga promotional stamp on f.f.e., and sticker on half title. (adventure)
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Ford, H. J. 8vo, pp. 217. With illustrations by H. J. Ford. Illustrated paper over boards with cloth spine. A reprint with no color frontis. Edges and corners of cover worn, o/w a VG tight copy.
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H. J. Ford. Good+ No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Early printing, with "George H. Doran Company" on the title page, but without the GHD symbol on the copyright page. No date, but probably between 1908, when the publisher moved to New York, and 1927, when they merged with Doubleday, Page. Fairly heavy wear to the board edges. The spine lettering is faded but legible. There is a bit of erasure on the front endpapers. In a sound binding with hinges intact.
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