Only an Irish boy, or, Andy Burke's fortunes and misfortunes

Date:

©1894.

Author:

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A395 O5 1894 LOCAL

Publisher:

John C. Winston Co.

Abstract:

The selfish, snobbish wife of the town's wealthiest resident schemes to deprive a poor but honest Irish American boy of his rightful inheritance.

Physical Description:

iv, 324 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

Horatio Alger's books for boys and girls. and Horatio Alger's books for boys and girls.

Notes:

Includes publisher's advertisements. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

Winston, c 1894 by Porter & Coates, printed from Porter & Coates plates; 1st serialized in New York Weekly in 1874 and later in Good News in 1890; does not include the four plates of the original, except for a murky reproduction of the frontispiece; color illustration (newspaper boy) pasted on front cover, spine titles, and vignette (shoeshine boy) printed in black on tan cloth

Subjects:

Irish Americans Juvenile fiction, Inheritance and succession Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, Inheritance and succession, and Irish Americans

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works