School Days At Rugby
Published by Ticknor And Fields, Boston, 1860
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 25.00
Quantity: 1 available
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12mo; viii, 405 pages plus publisher's ads dated September, 1860; shaken a bit, rear joint and spine torn. This has been better-known generically as TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. This version includes the Preface to the 6th English edition. This is the grandaddy of British school accounts, leading directly to Hogwarts. It introduced the character of Flashman, whose adventures as a adult were chronicled by George MacDonald Fraser.
Seller Inventory # 0007790
Bibliographic details
- Title
- School Days At Rugby
- Author
- Brown, Tom. Anonymous. By an Old Boy.
- Publisher
- Ticknor And Fields, Boston
- Publication year
- 1860
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, FICTION::Movie or Television Tie-In, JUVENILE FICTION::Classics, JUVENILE FICTION::School & Education, JUVENILE FICTION::Social Issues::Bullying
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
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| First item | US$ 7.00 | US$ 16.00 |
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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Payment may be by cheques, most credit or debit cards. All items are guaranteed to be as described. That is a lifetime guarantee - my lifetime, that is. TJJ
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