Author: CARTER, RUSSELL GORDON (VERSES BY)
Title: A Patriot Lad of Old Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1924. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have light bumping, rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends, corners and spine joints. There is a thin tear to the spine of the book by the title. The text pages are generally clean. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the reverse of the first free page. "After leaving the military in 1919, Carter took a job as a reader with the magazine The Youth's Companion in Boston, Massachusetts, for which he also wrote numerous stories. During this period he also wrote books such as the "Bob Hanson" series, for example Bob Hanson, Tenderfoot in 1921 (with R. H Bowles). In 1925, following the demise of the magazine, he became a full-time freelance writer. Carter received several awards for his writing. Three Points of Honor (1929) won a prize from Little, Brown and Company and Boys' Life Magazine for the "best story based on the Boy Scout Oath." Shaggy, the Horse from Wyoming (1939) was awarded a prize from the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation for "The Encouragement of Juvenile Literature in America." In addition to fiction, he was the author of a unit history in World War I: The 101st Field Artillery, written in 1940. This was rated as "one of the three best unit histories of the First World War" by the Infantry Journal. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .
Keywords: Young Adult Russell Gordon Carter Philadelphia, PA Revolutionary War
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Title: A Patriot Lad of Old Philadelphia
Description: Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1924. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have light bumping, rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends, corners and spine joints. There is a thin tear to the spine of the book by the title. The text pages are generally clean. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the reverse of the first free page. "After leaving the military in 1919, Carter took a job as a reader with the magazine The Youth's Companion in Boston, Massachusetts, for which he also wrote numerous stories. During this period he also wrote books such as the "Bob Hanson" series, for example Bob Hanson, Tenderfoot in 1921 (with R. H Bowles). In 1925, following the demise of the magazine, he became a full-time freelance writer. Carter received several awards for his writing. Three Points of Honor (1929) won a prize from Little, Brown and Company and Boys' Life Magazine for the "best story based on the Boy Scout Oath." Shaggy, the Horse from Wyoming (1939) was awarded a prize from the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation for "The Encouragement of Juvenile Literature in America." In addition to fiction, he was the author of a unit history in World War I: The 101st Field Artillery, written in 1940. This was rated as "one of the three best unit histories of the First World War" by the Infantry Journal. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .
Keywords: Young Adult Russell Gordon Carter Philadelphia, PA Revolutionary War
Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 41774
- Book number: 41774
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