$150.00
Stories of Americans at Work
compiled and edited by Roy Davis, Frederick G. Getchell
and H. Warren Foss
with illustrations by Harvey W. Kidder
Copyright 1941. First Edition. Ginn and Company.
Book was not circulated in a school or library setting. Cover
has light wear and soil, a small section on the back cover has a bit of
a rumple to material over the boards - it doesn't quite feel like cloth.
Previous owner's name is neatly written on the first endpage; small checkmark
near the binding. Pages are clean and in very good condition.
Stories in this book are:
A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
True Story of Garcia by Jared L. Manley
The Citizen by James Francis Dwyer
Lincoln, The Man of the People by Edwin Markham
Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
Rebirth of the Barefoot Boy by William F. McDermott
Mary White by William Allen White
Bud and the Bank Examiner by Edith O'Neil MacDonald
Try Living by William Moulton Marston
The First Job by Edward W. Bok
Work by Henry van Dyke
Husker Carlson by Lewis C. French
From Box Car to College Class Room by Stanley Watson
Don't Worry by Louise D. Rich
Blue Chap: A Dog That Knew by Vingie E. Roe
Take-Off by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The Trawler by James B. Connolly
The Spite Fence by Ernie Rydberg
Paths to Fame and Fortune by Charles F. Kettering
Doctor Carver by Dorothy Thompson
Opportunity by John James Ingalls
Country Doctor by Edith Barnard Delano
The Camp at Lockjaw by David McCord
Now There is Peace by Richard Sherman
Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell
Business is Business by Berton Braley
The Inspired Version by Everett W. Lord
Cowboys of the Skies by Ernest Poole
Skyscrapers by Charles Hanson Towne
A Return to Constancy by Mary Ellen Chase
Life's Duties by Everett L. Getchell
A College Boy on the State Police by Harold E. Searles
The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss
At the back of the book:
Outlines
Word Study
Subjects for Themes and Talks
General Reading List
371 pages. A very nice copy of this scarce, out-of-print book.
Intended for junior high students through adult.
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