Days Off: And Other Digressions, Henry van Dyke, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907, HC, VG.

van Dyke, Henry, and Avalon. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907.

English, Very Good, HC, 12mo, 7 3/4" x 5 1/4", 322 pp.

Navy blue illustrated cloth over board, featuring stamped gilt floral illustration to front and spine, green, blue, and white color to front illustration, stamped gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt top-edge, deckled edges, text block attached but somewhat sagged, minor wear to edges and tips, some fading to white color of front illustration, small smudge on pp.87, name written in pen to front endpaper, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. 14 + [2] 322 pp., replete with 8 color illustrations, dedication by Avalon, list of illustrations, chapters: "Days Off," "A Holiday in a Vacation," "His Other Engagment," "Books that I Loved as a Boy," "Amoung the Quantock Hills," "Between the Lupin and the Laurel," "Little Red Tom," "Silverhorns," "Notions about Novels," "Some Remarks on Gulls," "Leviathan," "The Art of Leaving Off". Beautifully produced book written by American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman, Henry van Dyke (1852-1933).