THE BEAUTY OF KINDNESS

Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1906.  Hard cover, 31 pages.  Decorative front board with gilt lettering, some corner and spine end wear, small tear to cloth on spine; top edge gilt.  Prior owner’s name and date on FEP with some tape residue from old label.  Black & white frontis with tissue guard intact; illustrated title and copyright pages.  Old tape repairs on copyright page and p. 3 with tape browned; last page and rear hinge cracked with both repaired with tape which has browned; neat inked notation on verso of p. 31; a few tiny ink/pencil ticks.  Black & white illustrations by Harold Copping.  ‘Nothing else we can do is more worth while than kindness.  There is nothing that the world needs more, and nothing else that leaves more real and far-reaching good in human lives.’ (from p. 3)