Item #51729 Mat and Sofie. Children's Book.

Mat and Sofie.

New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 580 Broadway, 1877.

Price: $50.00


About the item

Frontispiece by R.S. Bross. 108 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original green cloth, blocked in black, spine lettered and additionally decorated in gilt, some soiling and rubbing, some spotting and browning, mostly of endpapers. From the library of Louisa Nellie Grill, dated December 1881.

Item #51729

A young boy and his mother chose poverty to escape his gambling, drinking forger of a father. Sofie, a small girl was tricked and forced into the life of a thief. Mat and Sofie met and through various adventures were rescued from their low life by themselves and the help of a kind gentleman and their faith.