Fosdick Charles (64 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!

0 Good. maderate shelfwear, po name.

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: 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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (1893) 403+pp. Original pale yellow cloth covers w/ a color pictorial paste-down on front cover. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; spine ends bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ a glossy b/w frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Castlemon, Harry (pseudonym of Charles Austin Fosdick, 1842-1915): THE BOY TRAPPER. Chicago: Donahue, n. d. [a gift inscription dated Christmas 1915 is probably close to the edition's year, of an 1878 title]. A bit worn but attractive pictorial binding depicting a Boy Scout. Evidence of a library card pocket having been removed but no other indications of it having been in any but a private library, but call it a near high end reading copy just in case. Besides the novel -- a wilderness hunting adventure plus hidden treasure -- there is also a short story at the rear, "The Perry Rubber Works," set in Iowa, which I doubt is by Castlemon, but it is a supernatural mystery. It replaces "A Balloon Hoax" which Donahue appended to their edition of The Boy Trapper in 1912.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (1892) 256 pp. Original blue pictorial cloth covers, lightly soiled. Spine and edges sunned; spine ends bumped. Light scattered foxing; faint dampstain at top edge of rear paste-down. Approx. 1/2" closed tear at top margin of page 65, not affecting text. Few leaves dog-eared; faint smudges to outer margins of several leaves. Illust. w/ 3 color plates.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Signed/Inscribed by editor on rear cover. No date stated.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. Reprint. 274 pp. + Excerpt: Mrs. Stone's Money Order. The Gunboat Series. Reprint (n.d.). Charles Austin Fosdick (1842-1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of children literature. 1/2" square chips or less with closed tear dj; light foxing and age toning to same. Pencilled inscription on ffep, else, Pristine with beautiful, extremely bright boards. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Pictorial boards: red background, blue, black and white landscape with figure of Frank sitting cross-legged on bank of river. Size: 8vo. Book.

Condition: Fair. First ed.; 422 p., immaculate and unmarked except for gift inscription on front end paper written in beautiful 19th c. penmanship; in back list of "Famous Castlemon Books (4 p.), "Famous Alger Books" (3 p.), "Popular Juvenile" (2 p.) by other authors; and poetry series. Fine b&w ill. by Geo. G. White, including frontis. with tissue guard; binding firm; tan pictorial boards showing struggle over red, white and blue flag by two young men dressed in blue; black and gilt lettering. This is one of a series of wildly popular adventure stories for boys that the author was famous for.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. W. H. Fry (illustrator). 294 pp. Original blue pictorial cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine darkened w/ light fraying to ends. Previous owner's name on front endpapers. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers; edges of leaves a bit age toned. Faint smudges to outer margins of several leaves. Illust. w/ 4 b/w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co.; Cincinnati: R.W. Carroll & Co., copyright 1876. 332 page, 4p publisher advertisement. 4 plates. 7.5 x 5", black and yellow stamped brown cloth. 'Geo. B. Smart Jr., Lawrence, Mass., 1900'. Cover trifle rubbed, soiled, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates; Cincinnati: R.W. Carroll & Co., copyright 1874. 277 pages, 8p publisher list. Frontispiece. 7 x 4.5", black and gold stamped brown cloth. 'Geo. B. Smart Jr., Lawrence, Mass., Sept. 8, 1891'. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket included. Castlemon, Harry (pseudonym of Charles Austin Fosdick, 1842-1915): FRANK ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. Chicago: Donahue, n. d. [1930s edition of this 1865 boys series title]. Very Good or better hardcover, in edge-torn dustwrapper depicting boys fishing. The "Frank" juvenile detective and travel-adventure series was a Victorian precursor to the Hardy Boys, and vastly superior to the Hardy Boys. Being set in the wake of the fall of Vicksburg adds tremendous flavor and American Civil War interest.

267 pp. Illustrated by George G. White. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" VG (light edgewear/rubs & some soiling to binding). Yellow publisher's binding with pictorial design of a boy loading a cannon on the upper panel. Decorated eps Later edition, ca late 19th C. / early 20th C.

Reprint. 254 + 2 pp adverts at rear. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8" VG (front hinge paper cracked/edgewear & light soiling). Green pictorial binding with red,black and gilt designs on spine & upper panel.

Ca early 20th C. 256 + 4 pp adverts. 12mo. VG (slt lean/Dinkytown bookseller ticket to rear pastedown/light discoloration at eps)/VG (some soiling & edgewear). Green decorative cloth. Dust jacket.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Reprint. Hard cover, 12mo, in pictorial green cloth with titles in black to front and spine, and cover design in white, gold and red, pictorial endpapers, 1 p. publisher's adverts, 413 pp., plus additional 2 pp. publisher's adverts. Condition: Very Good Minus : Some shelf-wear, darkening to boards, wear at head and tail of spine, pages moderately toned. Front hinge cracked but holding firmly. Small bookseller's label on rear pastedown.** This was the first title in Castlemon's three-book Forest and Stream series. A description from Publisher's Weekly dated Oct. 9, 1886: " A fly-rod begins relating his story. It tells how Joe Wayring first bought it, and obtained such rare sport through it, as to call it " Old durability." It then drops the first person, continues in an impersonal way Joe's life and adventures, the latter being mostly fishing exploits in New England lakes and rivers." (Blanck, p.67) Bibliographer Jacob Blanck (Harry Castlemon, 1941) p. 66 identifies this as a reprint, given arrangement of the advertising. Book.

Reprint, ca 1901. 293 + 11 pp adverts at rear. Illustrated by W.H. Fry. 12mo. VG (pos erased, leaving rubbed marks/spine slightly yellowed/faint discoloration at eps )/Abt VG (soiling/1 inch section missing from head of spine/chips & tears at extremities). Blue pictorial binding with red & black designs on spine & upper panel. White dust jacket with green lettering.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. KlappentextThe Mail Carrier is a novel written by Charles Austin Fosdick in 1879. The book tells the story of a young man named Jack, who works as a mail carrier in a rural area. Jack is a hardworking and honest young man who takes his j.