Publication: Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1871
Edition: First Edition

Description: First Edition. Hardcover (brown). First printing of the first American edition, sixmo size, Very good.

DESCRIPTION: Bound in full reddish-brown cloth, the front board with the author and title stamped in gilt in the center surrounded by a decorative oval border, front and back boards with a double narrow blind-embossed border, gilt lettering and the decorative border also on the spine with decorative ruled borders at the head and tail, brown coated endpapers, black and white illustration serving as a frontispiece ("These were the boys...") with three additional illustrations throughout; sixmo size (6 5/8" by 4 7/8"), pagination: [i-iv, publisher's ads] [v-viii, preliminaries] [1] 2-376.

CONDITION: A solid very good copy overall; the cloth binding clean, the gilt lettering and decorations bright and unrubbed, the text block sturdy with solid hinges. The binding shows some wear mostly at the head and tail of the spine, a bit of rubbing to the corners, the text block is slightly cocked, small glue adhered to the front and back covers showing paper underneath. Hinges slightly frayed but tight. A very good copy of the first American printing.

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