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ALDEN, RAYMOND MACDONALD - Why the Chimes Rang

Title: Why the Chimes Rang
Description: Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Katharine Sturges. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good to Near Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine of the book has some wear and there is noticeable ground-in dirt to the spine joints. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping aben beginning fraying. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though there are occasional finger marks. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. "Raymond Macdonald Alden (1873–1924) was an American scholar and educator. Born in New Hartford, N. Y, he studied at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1894 with a Ph. D. He took post-graduate studies there at Penn and at Harvard. In 1894-95 he was instructor in English at Columbian (now George Washington) University; in 1896-97 assistant in English at Harvard; and in 1898-99 senior fellow in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He was chosen to fill the position of assistant professor of English literature and rhetoric at Leland Stanford, Jr, University in 1899, then became associate professor there in 1909.". Very Good .

Keywords: Young Adult Fiction Raymond Macdonald Alden Katharine Sturges Short Stories Short Fiction Young Adult Fiction

Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 33827

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