Slow and sure, or, From the street to the shop

Date:

©1872.

Author:

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A395 S6 LOCAL

Publisher:

John C. Winston Co.

Abstract:

Paul the Peddlar, a fifteen year-old boy, owns a tie store and financially supports his younger brother and his widowed mother.

Physical Description:

280, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

Tattered Tom series ; v. 4 and Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899. Tattered Tom series ; v. 4.

Notes:

Includes publisher's advertisements. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

cheap (bad paper) Winston edition, c 1872 by Loring, reprinted from original Loring plates but without illustrations except for crudely reproduced frontispiece; 4th volume of Tattered Tom series; 1st appeared as serial in Student and Schoolmate 1872; spine titles and vignette (shoeshine boy) printed in black on tan cloth, color illustration (boy and Brooklyn Bridge) pasted on front cover

Subjects:

Peddlers Juvenile fiction, Young men Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Friendship Juvenile fiction, Street life Juvenile fiction, Brothers Juvenile fiction, Honesty Juvenile fiction, Robbery Juvenile fiction, Brothers, Conduct of life, Friendship, Honesty, Peddlers, Robbery, Street life, and Young men Conduct of life

Genres/Forms:

Fiction, Juvenile works, and Publishers' advertisements 1872. rbgenr