150pp, colour plate frontispiece. Blue cloth-covered boards; blind embossed design on boards, gilt titles on spine. 24mo. Signature binding. Mottling to boards. Shelf wear. Sun-faded spine, bumping and fraying to spine ends; 3cm tear at spine head. Rounded and scuffed corners; minor fraying of cloth. Binding stretched and loose. Quite cocked. Text block edges tanned. Previous owner's name penned onto front free endpaper, soiled. Minor rippling at front and rear pastedowns. Light soiling to pages throughout.
Ruth Buck was the author of several light adventures for children between 1861 and 1900. Pleasant Paths for Little Feet was one of her earliest novels.
