The island home, or, The young cast-aways

Date:

1853.

Author:

Bowman, James F.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH R761 I85 1853 LOCAL

Publisher:

Gould and Lincoln

Physical Description:

xviii, 461 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes:

Includes publisher's advertisements. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1853 Gould and Lincoln (Boston) imprint, c 1851; [the 'editor' is the author, and 'Christopher Romaunt ' is a pseudonym of James F. Bowman; spine repaired, spine titles, decoration and vignette stamped in gold on red cloth, front and back cover rulings, decoration and publisher logo blind-stamped

Subjects:

Survival Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks Juvenile fiction, Adventure stories, Adventure stories, Shipwrecks, Survival, and Travel

Genres/Forms:

Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, Juvenile works, and Action and adventure fiction. lcgft

Geographic Terms:

Tropics Description and travel Juvenile fiction and Tropics