Tom the bootblack, or, A Western boy's success

Date:

1909.

Author:

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899, author.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A395 T57 1909 LOCAL

Publisher:

New York Book Co.

Abstract:

Tom is a fifteen year boy making a living in New York city as a bootblack.

Physical Description:

1 preliminary leaf, 168 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece ; 19 cm.

Series:

Famous Alger stories for boys and Famous Alger stories for boys.

Notes:

Contains publisher's advertisements. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1909 New York Book Co. reprint; orig pub. by Carleton with Street & Smith and American News Co. in 1878 as 'The Western Boy, or The Road to Success'; serialized in 1878 in New York Weekly; most often reprinted under the title 'Tom the Bootblack, or The Road to Success';frontispiece signed with monogram HWML; spine and cover titles and design printed in black on bluish gray cloth, front cover half-tone vignette (ice skaters) printed in red and black

Subjects:

Adventure stories, American Juvenile fiction, Shoe shiners Juvenile fiction, Uncles Juvenile fiction, Boardinghouses Juvenile fiction, Inheritance and succession Juvenile fiction, Success Juvenile fiction, Adventure stories, American, Boardinghouses, Inheritance and succession, Shoe shiners, Success, and Uncles

Genres/Forms:

Bildungsromans. lcgft, Publishers' pictorial bindings (Binding) 1909. rbbin, Publishers' advertisements 1909. rbgenr, Bildungsromans, Fiction, and Juvenile works

Geographic Terms:

New York (N.Y.) Juvenile fiction and New York (State) New York