(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW. Group of 3 volumes.The Arkansaw Bear. A Tale of Fanciful Adventure. Half-title, frontispiece, text illustrations by Frank Ver Beck. 8vo, publisher's pictorial drab boards; a few scuffs affecting some letters on front cover, rebacked in tan buckram. Inscribed by the illustrator "To my friend Orson Lowell with kind regards of the Bear's Showman, Frank Ver Beck. Dec 21/98." 1898 * The Hollow Tree. Half-title, frontispiece, full-page text illustratons by J. M. Condé. 8vo, publisher's tan buckram and cream pictorial boards; soiled and rubbed, corners torn. 1898 * In the Deep Woods. Half-title, frontispiece, full-page text illustrations by J. M. Condé. 8vo, publisher's green 1/4 cloth and pictorial boards; extremities worn, some scuff marks and rubbing to covers; some light marginal soiling, ink edge stain at lower outer corner of a few leaves near the end, ownership signature. 1899. New York, R.H. Russell, vd
