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Author: Van Dyke, Henry
Title:  Days Off and Other Digressions
Publication Information: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons MDCCCCVII
Call #: PS3117 .D3 1907  
Book Size: 19.5 cm (H); 13 cm (L); 3.5 cm (spine)
Cover: Navy blue cloth; front cover: embossed gold with light blue, green, and white (often blue showing through the white); note "M.A." (probably "Margaret Armstrong") on the bottom of the front cover). Floral design, referencing stained glass windows. Plain back cover. Spine: gold design cognate with cover. "Days Off" and author's full name on spine in gold; faded "Scribner's at the bottom of the spine
Inside Book Covers: plain paper
Paper Edges: top gilt; side and bottom plain
Illustrations: list of illustrations (eight total); frontispiece opposite title page (protective paper in between). "Our canoes go with the river, but no longer easily or lazily"; picture of canoes on river, rocks prominent in the foreground, stark tree.
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Days Off