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A YEAR OF GOOD CHEER

Porter, Delia Lyman

Boston, New York and Chicago: The Pilgrim Press, 1906. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Designed by the Morgan Shepard Company and printed by Kenneth Ives (Inc.), New York, in November 1906. Illustrated and decorated throughout in black and red. Blue paper-covered boards with printed paper title label to front board, in the original matching paper-covered slipcase with printed label. An inspirational perpetual calendar compiled by Delia Lyman Porter, presenting quotations and reflections for daily reading. With a contemporary gift inscription dated December 25, 1906, recording the book as a gift from Dr. John Lyon Caughey, then pastor of the Harlem Presbyterian Church in New York. Laid in is a contemporary newspaper clipping dated October 5, 1905, announcing Caughey as the new pastor of the church and reproducing his portrait. Book with light rubbing and wear, internally clean; slipcase rubbed and worn at extremities with some splitting and loss at upper edge, but sound and substantially complete. Very Good in publisher's original slipcase.

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