Author: Hocking, Silas K. (1850-1935)
Title: POOR MIKE: the Story of a Waif
Description: London, Frederick Warne and Co. new edition 1882 according to British Library Frontis + text illustrations by F.A.F. . Small octavo (160x120mm) orange pictorial and decorated cloth gilt lettered to spine (tips rubbed, bit marked else bright and sound) 883pp + [8]pp publisher's catalogue. Illuminated & gilt prize Salvation Army label to pastedown dated Feb. 1902 & presented to Fred Dando. *Story of the destitution of a drunkard's family. A tear-jerker with the author's statement that its chief incidents are strictly true.
Keywords: temperance tale Victorian moral story poverty
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Title: POOR MIKE: the Story of a Waif
Description: London, Frederick Warne and Co. new edition 1882 according to British Library Frontis + text illustrations by F.A.F. . Small octavo (160x120mm) orange pictorial and decorated cloth gilt lettered to spine (tips rubbed, bit marked else bright and sound) 883pp + [8]pp publisher's catalogue. Illuminated & gilt prize Salvation Army label to pastedown dated Feb. 1902 & presented to Fred Dando. *Story of the destitution of a drunkard's family. A tear-jerker with the author's statement that its chief incidents are strictly true.
Keywords: temperance tale Victorian moral story poverty
Price: GBP 11.00 = appr. US$ 15.71 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: J74965
- Book number: J74965
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