Author: BONEHILL, Ralph
Title: Boys of the Fort or a Young Captain's Pluck
Description: New York, The Mershon Company, 1901. Hardcover. 12mo. Tan cloth with gilt, black and ivory lettering and black/red/ivory pictorial stamping. vi, 250pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good. Mild edgewear and faint rubbing; overly tight inner hinges; pencilled 1899 nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. A tight, quite nice first edition of this "Flag of Freedom Series" title, which issued the first three volumes in 1899 and three more up until 1902. Author/publisher Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930 -- Bonehill was one of his many pseudonyms) was an obscenely prolific scribbler of juvenile fiction. .

Keywords: Children's


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