Jack Harkaway's Friends (Round the World Library Number 2)
by Hemyng, Bracebridge
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Bethel, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
NY, NY: Street & Smith, 1925. Paperback. UGLY READING COPY of 1925 DIME NOVEL. Serious chipping of cover and page edges. Creased spine. Age soiled and tanned. Cover separated but present. But, nothing interferes with it's readability. DIME NOVELS - Printed on the cheapest of paper, with lurid cover illustrations, dime novels (which found a name in their ten cent price tag)...were considered ephemeral, to be read, often in secret, passed on to friends, or discarded. Dime novels... targeted a youthful working class audience with their thrilling, stereotyped tales of Wild West adventures, master criminals, detective stories, historical romances, and working girls and boys in which virtue was rewarded and preserved. 5x7.25x.5" 240+ pages
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- Bookseller
- Rainy Day Paperback Exchange (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9-5T024
- Title
- Jack Harkaway's Friends (Round the World Library Number 2)
- Author
- Hemyng, Bracebridge
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Street & Smith
- Place of Publication
- NY, NY
- Date Published
- 1925
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- Reading Copy
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- Chipping
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- Spine
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