Alger: A Biography Without a Hero
by Mayes, Herbert R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GOOD+
- Seller
-
Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macy-Masius, 1928. (1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD+. Tight binding, light age soil to covers, slight sun fading to spine, unmarked text, square. No dust jacket. Map endpapers. Over a dozen full page, black and white glossy photos, mostly of drawings for Alger book covers. 6.25x9.25x1.25" Full list of books written by Horatio Alger, Jr. 241 pages. "His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty..."
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- Bookseller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0-9H002
- Title
- Alger: A Biography Without a Hero
- Author
- Mayes, Herbert R
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - GOOD+
- Edition
- (1st edition)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macy-Masius
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIO007000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures;
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Bethel, Connecticut
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....