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The Story of the Treasure Seekers: Being the adventures of the Bastable children in search of a fortune
by Nesbit, E
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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WARREN, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
With illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer.
First American edition [or early edition, copyright date of 1899 and no indications of later printings). Original gilt-lettered green cloth with pictorial design stamped in white on front cover of the children lined up along the bannister of a staircase and peering down. Small nick at right edge of front board, otherwise about fine.
Synopsis
From the book:This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we were not lazy about the looking. There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure-seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how beastly it is when a story begins, "'Alas!" said Hildegarde with a deep sigh, "we must look our last on this ancestral home"'- and then some one else says something - and you don't know for pages and pages where the home is, or who Hildegarde is, or anything about it. Our ancestral home is in the Lewisham Road. It is semi-detached and has a garden, not a large one. We are the Bastables. There are six of us besides Father. Our Mother is dead, and if you think we don't care because I don't tell you much about her you only show that you do not understand people at all. Dora is the eldest. Then Oswald - and then Dicky. Oswald won the Latin prize at his preparatory school - and Dicky is good at sums. Alice and Noel are twins: they are ten, and Horace Octavius is my youngest brother. It is one of us that tells this story - but I shall not tell you which: only at the very end perhaps I will. While the story is going on you may be trying to guess, only I bet you don't. It was Oswald who first thought of looking for treasure. Oswald often thinks of very interesting things. And directly he thought of it he did not keep it to himself, as some boys would have done, but he told the others, and said -
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- Bookseller
- archive book + snackery
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9780143039840
- Title
- The Story of the Treasure Seekers
- Author
- Nesbit, E
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick A. Stokes Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1899
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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