Description
The Fair dust jacket is very worn with chipping, tears and rub wear on all edges. The Very Good binding is gray-green cloth over boards with ACC & 1825 in circle on lower right corner, black lettering on spine. Some age discoloration to board edges, slight bumping to corners. Gift inscription on inside front cover, black-and-white frontispiece. Black-and-white illustrations by Mary Sherwood Wright Jones. The binding is tight and pages are clean with exception of small water stain on at top edge of pages up to page 230 does not affect text. The book measures 8.3″ tall x 5.6″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
While Mr. Hillyer was preparing this book to succeed his enormously popular “À Child’s History of the World,” he “tried it out on several classes of boys and girls at the Calvert School, One of his young pupils came up at the end of the course and said to him, “I wish there were a hundred more countries in the world that you could tell us about!”
That is the feeling one has after reading A CHILD’s GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD. Mr. Hillyer, who has visited and traveled in most of the countries on the globe, brings to these pages the ever-changing fascination of the world’s lands and peoples. He shows the child reader what is beyond the horizon “from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu.” He shows him not only the Seven Wonders but the seventy times Seven Wonders of the World. He lays a foundation of interest and knowledge that will make the child eager to travel, and able to travel with inkling of what there is to see in the some world, when he grows up.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
V. M. Hillyer was born in 1875 at Weymouth. Massachusetts. His boyhood was spent on “Capitol Hill, Washington, D. C., `where he lived until he went back to New England to college. He graduated from Harvard in the Class of 1897. Subsequently, he became Headmaster of the Calvert School in Baltimore, from which he taught thousands of pupils by correspondence not only in the United States but in twenty-two foreign countries. Outside of this work, Mr. Hillyer’s greatest interest was traveling. In
mileage, he has been the equivalent of five times around the world.
