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Sink or swim; or, Harry Raymond's resolve
Author
Title
Sink or swim; or, Harry Raymond's resolve. / By Horatio Alger, Jr. Author of "Ragged Dick," "Fame and fortune," "Mark, the match boy, "Rough and Ready," "Ben, the luggage boy," "Rufus and Rose," "Campaign series," "Luck and pluck series," etc.
Published
[Boston] : Loring, publisher, 319 Washington Street, 35 School Street, Boston., [1870]
Physical Description
viii, 9-388 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Shirley 66: Green cloth binding.
BEIN Za AL35 870S: Purple cloth binding; autograph of George L. Wood.
Notes
Preface, p. vii-viii, dated at New York, November 1, 1870.
Copyright 1870 by A.K. Loring, in the office of the Librarian of Congress. According to R.D. Gardner, the first edition (issued in 1870), bears both addresses of 319 Washington Street and 35 School Street in the imprint statement. Publisher's advertisement, p. [2], matches Gardner's description.
"Rockwell & Churchill, printers, Boston."--verso of title page.
Wood-engraved plates signed by "R," and Samuel Smith Kilburn.
"Luck and pluck series."--series title and numbered list, p. [ii].
"Price, $1 .50 per volume."--p. [ii].
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Gardner, R.D. Alger (1971 ed.), p. 114
Gruber, F. Horatio Alger, p. 55
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Publishers' advertisements.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) - 1870.
Relief prints.
Also listed under
Rockwell and Churchill, printer.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
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