Fosdick Charles (89 results)

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Condition: FAIR. Reprint. A title in the Field and Stream series. Frontispiece. 419 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Fair condition only in tan boards with a pasted on illustration on front cover (previous owner's name dated Dec 1913, several stamps, title page partially detached, rear hinge cracking, overall wear to covers, etc).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). no date given (circa 1870?) ; olive green pictorial c w/red titles; slight wear at tips; 281 pages+6 pages ads; moderate edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). tan pictorial c w/black titles & gilt on spine; 280 clean, unmarked pages+8 pages ads; lite wear at tips/spine; illustrated end papers.

Condition: GOOD. Later printing. Glossy illustrated title page plus 2 glossy internal plates. 254 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads. Good overall in green cloth with red, black and gold illustration on front cover and spine (gift inscription dated Christmas 1893).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). dark green pictorial c w/black titles; light wear at spine/tips; illustrated end papers; 418 clean, unmarked pages+ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 254 clean, unmarkd pages+ ads; gold pictorial c w/black titles; illustrated end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). 286 clean, unmarkd pages+ ads; gold pictorial c w/black titles.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. grey pictorial c; slight wear at tips; owner's name, in mylar protective wraps; 256 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George C. White (illustrator). brown pictorial c; lite wear at spine/tips; lite soil; in mylar protective wraps; 428 cln, unmarked pages.

Condition: GOOD. Reprint. Originally published in 1864, this was the first book in the first series by this prolific author of boy's adventure fiction - the most read author of boys in the post-Civil War era. It opens in Maine where young Frank is a high school student determined to do better than all of the other boys in the school, but when his health suffers and his mother determines that he needs to take a year off, he begins to spend more time in the outdoors. The title also describes this as a title in the "Frank and Archie Series." Glossy frontispiece. 253 pp. plus 2 pp publisher's ads. Very good minus in illustrated light tan cloth (fraying to cloth at top of spine, previous owner's name in pencil).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). tan/gold pictorial c; lite shelf rubbing; beautiful condition; illustrated end papers; 256 clean, unmarked pages.

0 Good. maderate shelfwear, po name.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 419, [1], 8 p.: frontispiece, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and black-stamped cover title. Spine and cover illustrations in red, grey, black, and gilt. Forest and Stream Series--at head of title page. Copyrighted in 1888 by Porter & Coates; imprint on title page is for Henry T. Coates & Co., which succeeded Porter & Coates in 1895. Color illustrated endpapers, the front with an illustration of boys going fishing and the back with an illustration of two boys reading. Verso of title page contains publisher's advertisement for other books by Harry Castlemon. Final 8 pages contain publisher's advertisements for various series by Harry Castlemon, Horatio Alger, Jr., Edward T. Ellis, C.A. Stephens, and J.T. Trowbridge. Former owner's name on back of frontispiece: Harry C. Weeks. In Good+ Condition: cocked; edges are rubbed; cover slightly soiled; front hinge weak and title page starting to separate; back hinge starting; pages and illustrations are otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). tan pictorial c w/black titles; llite wear at extremities; 245 clean, unmarked pages=catalogue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). olive green pictorial c w/black/green titles; slight wear at tips; spot on end papers from tape removal; ownr's plate; 296 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. tan/gold pictorial c; Lovely condition; 278 clean, unmarked pages+ads.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Text is clean. Frontis missing. Green cloth with color applique cover illustration. Ends of spine show wear. Outer text edge spotted. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. ; [Bloom, Who Should We Then Read? , pp. 68-70]; Boy Trapper; Vol. 2; 313 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tight and clean Hardcover. Pictorial cover with two cadets in blue raising US flag. Spine decorated with picture of cadet. Front end paper originally glued to cover at spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 16mo with frontis. [Cat. 54-128 & 65-143.] Front inner spine cracked; o/w Good no DJ.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Fair. 1874 pictorial hardcover. MAJOR wear and tear to covers. Spine cover may be torn. Some pages may be loose from the binding. Pages are tanned, but unmarked. Gift inscription written inside.

Reprint. Ca 1935. 248 pp. 12mo. VG (front hinge paper cracked/pencil pos & sticker atffep/pages browned, as usual)/VG (incomplete tear at top edge of rear panel/spine panel soiled). Red cloth binding with black lettering. Dust jacket.

Circa 1920. 256 pp. Frontis. 12mo. VG (offset at eps/light edgewear)/Gd+ (age-toning/triangular chucnk missing at bottom of front panel/other edgewear & chipping). Yellowish decorative cloth w/ black & brown illustration on upper panel. Dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. The first volume in the author's Rod and Gun Series. 352 p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, 3 leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; black-and-grey-stamped spine and cover illustrations. No dust jacket. Black endpapers. Front free endpaper bears small bookplate of Russel A. Stelle; first blank leaf following bears inscription from Christmas 1912: "Presented to C. Norman Detweiler by S.C. Stelle." Harry Castlemon was the pseudonym of Charles Austin Fosdick (1842-1915), the author of many 3-to-6-volume series for boys published following the Civil War. This volume presents the adventures of Don Gordon and his brother Hubert at Bridgeport Military Academy. In Very Good Condition: edges are rubbed; head of spine just starting to fray; cover slightly soiled; slightly shaken; otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1873 hardcover published without DJ. MAJOR wear and tear and staining to covers and edges. Binding is damaged. Small inscription stating Christmas 1873 inside. Pages are tanned and brittle. Cover may not match photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Frontis (illustrator). white pictorial c w/chipping, tears; blue pictorial c.; 256 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frontis (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/lite chipping, small pieces missing, in mylar; tan pictorial c w/black titles; 245 pages+11 pages ads; some lite edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frontis (illustrator). green pictorial c w/black titles & gilt on spine; 277 clean, unm,arked pages+9 pages ads; beautiful cover, nice white, tight pages.

Later edition. Octavo (20 cm); 305 pp.; frontispiece; illus. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in black, red, gilt and white; illustrated endpapers. Cloth is rubbed with minimal edgewear; owner's name in pencil to endpaper and blank flyleaf; tissue guard missing from frontis; hinges starting; smudging to title page. A Good+ or better copy of this volume of juvenilia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Text is clean. Pages tanning, cover shows obvious wear, beautiful color illustration to cover and spine blemished by a few paint drips. Cover shows wear, spine chipped. Previous owner name in pencil on front free endpaper and reverse of frontis. ; [Bloom, Who Should We Then Read? , pp. 68-70]; Castlemon's War Series; Vol. 4; 424 pages.