Satan Sanderson by Hallie Erminie Rives 1907 and 12 similar items

Satan Sanderson Hallie Erminie Rives Satan Sanderson Hallie Erminie Rives New York: Grosset and Dunlap Copyright 1907 400 pages 2 color illustrations by A. B. Wenzell The front hinge is broken, otherwise the binding is in acceptable condition. The pages are tanned with some foxing and brown age spots and a name is written on the front end paper. The cover is rubbed and edge worn, the spine is faded, and there are scratches on the paste on cover picture. Acceptable. Hardcover. Chapter 1: "To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth." It was very quiet in the wide, richly furnished library. The May night was still, but a faint suspiration, heavy with the fragrance of jasmine flowers, stirred the Venetian blind before the open window and rustled the moon-silvered leaves of the aspens outside. As the incisive professional pronouncement of the judge cut through the lamp-lighted silence, the grim, furrowed face with its sunken eyes and gray military mustaches on the pillow of the wheel-chair set more grimly; a girl seated in the damask shadow of the fire-screen caught her breath; and from across the polished table the Reverend Henry Sanderson turned his handsome, clean-shaven face and looked at the old man.... (#0000851)