Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks
by Alger, Jr., Horatio
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 296 pages. 18 x 12 cm. This copy with ad leaf and Dick standing alone with his boot-blacking box: later issues have image of four street boys. Ad leaf here contains two titles in the "Ragged Dick Series," plus three in "Campaign Series." First edition is indicated by two titles only of the former with the second title described as available "In December" 1868. There are also three additional wood engraved illustrations. This story was first published serially in "Student and Schoolmate" [Boston], January - December, 1867, and then issued in book format, 1868. GROLIER AMERICAN HUNDRED 75. PETER PARLEY TO PENROD p.29. Interior contents fresh and clean with very minor scattered toning, mostly marginal. Modern quarter brown cloth and marbled boards. Fine.
Synopsis
Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. about a poor bootblack and his rise to middle-class comfort and respectability through good moral behavior, clean living, and determination. Ragged Dick was serialized in 1867 and published as a novel in 1868. Horatio Alger, Jr. formed an association with the Newsboys' Lodging House, a home for impoverished children in New York City, after resigning from the ministry in 1864.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19441
- Title
- Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life In New York With The Boot-Blacks
- Author
- Alger, Jr., Horatio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Loring, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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