Search Results: the hoosier schoolboy by eggleston edward

Once popular novel, boards a little dirty, corners bumped, pages clean, slight browning due to age.

Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket; A little discoloration to spine cover otherwise . very nice.. 1882, 1904. Hardcover. 181 pages .

Scribner, 1898. Hardcover. Good. good decorated front cover and spine, and plain rear cover; slightly cocked private library label on inside cover and pencil gift inscription from 1900 on facing page; otherwise unmarked

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare First edition. Mustard color hardcover with schoolboy in black and red with brown endpapers and ads in back. End papers have tears and hinges cracked. Freying to edges and corners, and soiling to covers. Illustrations in very good condition and text bright and crisp. Binding tight. " Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, to Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. The author George Cary Eggleston was his brother. As a child, he was too ill to regularly attend school, so his education was primarily provided by his father. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1856. He wrote a number of tales, some of which, especially the "Hoosier" series, attracted much attention. Among these are The Hoosier Schoolmaster, The Hoosier Schoolboy, The End of the World, The Faith Doctor, and Queer Stories for Boys and Girls. Eggleston was elected a member of the American Antiquarian… Read More

New York and Paris: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Illustrations. Listed in Peter Parley to Penrod, the definitive bibliographical source of important early American children and juvenile books, and in BAL 5726. Original grey cloth with illustration of schoolboy in black and red, with brown endpapers and ads in back, and all other points of the first issue first state. Light rubbing to cover edges; small closed tear professionally repaired on front free endpaper. Else a whole, tight, bright and clean copy, rather well preserved. Extremely scarce.