A Jolly Summer [College Tramps].
by Stokes (Frederick Abbot) [published anonymously]
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
NY: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1883.. [258]pp. + 8pp. ads at rear. Light blue pictorial wrappers designed and lettered in red. Frontispiece, several plates and many vignette illustrations. Spine wrinkled, light wear to edges, but a very nice copy of a fragile book. First edition under this title; originally published by Carleton in 1880 as: "College Tramps. A Narrative of the Adventures of a Party of Yale Students during a Summer Vacation in Europe, with Knapsack and Alpenstock, and incidents of a voyage to Rotterdam and return, taken in steerage." This re-titled edition is scarce.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51023
- Title
- A Jolly Summer [College Tramps].
- Author
- Stokes (Frederick Abbot) [published anonymously]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- NY: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1883.
- Keywords
- fiction american
- Bookseller catalogs
- Litold;
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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