Idle Hour Series
Published by D. Lothrop & Co.
| 1. Poor Papa | by Mary W. Porter | (Copyright 1879) |
| 2. Miss Priscilla Hunter | by Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden)/ Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humphrey | (Copyright 1879) |
| 3. Up and Down the Merrimack | by Pliny Steele Boyd | (Copyright 1879) |
| 4. How Two Girls Tried Farming | by Dorothea Alice Shepard (Ella Farman) | (Copyright 1879) |
| 5. My Daughter Susan | by Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden) | (Copyright 1879) |
| 6. What She Said: and What She Meant | by Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden)/ Illustrated by Robert Lewis | (Copyright 1880) |
| 7. People Who Haven't Time and Can't Afford It | by Pansy (Isabella Macdonald Alden)/ Illustrated by Robert Lewis | (Copyright 1880) |
Volumes #1-5 were all published first in 1879 and introduced as a series by D. Lothrop & Co. in 1879. Volumes #6 and 7 were added in 1880.
Illuminated Paper covers. 4 to.
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By 1881 these titles were also published in cloth.
Cloth. Green. Gold and silver gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and the cover. 7.25" x 5.25"
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