
On a Lark to the Planets by Frances Trego Montgomery. Saalfield Publishing Co. 1915.
On a Lark to the Planets by Frances Trego Montgomery. Saalfield Publishing Co. 1915. 5 1/2" x 8" 180 page Hardcover with no dust jacket. 7 color plates including the color frontispiece. Bright silver decoration on front cover and spine. Some wear to top and bottom of the spine and cover tips. Light soiling inside front and back covers. Otherwise, no previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. IE14bFrances Trego Montgomery "(1858-1925) US author, mostly of books for children, best known for tales about Billy Whiskers, a goat. Her Electric Elephant sequence – The Wonderful Electric Elephant (1903) and On a Lark to the Planets: A Sequel to the "Wonderful Electric Elephant" (1904) – describes in a Dime-Novel manner the Edisonade of a young man who encounters an elephant in the Rockies and immediately tries to kill it, onl