From title page: St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks.  Volume XL.  Part I. Six Months - November, 1912 to April, 1913.  Six months of splendid reading bound in one volume.  Dark brown buckram (cloth) boards, dark brown leather spine and corners, gilt impressed spine titles, moderate shelf wear.   Thick, heavy stock coated pages, very good.  Antiquarian bookstore label inside back cover: "Loring, Short & Harmon, Booksellers & Stationers, Portland, ME".   Two labels inside cover for The Farmington Public Library.   Several frontispiece color plates by Arthur Rackham; also, several in b & w.  Bind good; hinges intact.  Light green endpapers.  Illustrated throughout with hundreds of high quality prints, decorations and imagery. 

Features great amount of material and reading enjoyment with great old children's stories and tales, articles, etc.  A selection of essays, articles include: A Rhyme of Hallowe'en; Aztec Indians; Teddy Bears; Paul Bransom - Animal Illustrations - several; "Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" by L. Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz author; Brownies by Palmer Cox; Christmas - several - Santa Claus; "What Woodrow Wilson Did For American Foot-Ball" by Parke Davis - College Football/President; Abraham Lincoln; Mother Goose - w/Arthur Rackham Illustrations; the Circus; and much more!    As shown.  576 pages.   Insured post.