THE SILVER SHIP or The Sea Scouts of Seventy-Six A Romance of Outlawing Ashore and Afloat
by Ingraham, Col. Prentiss
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Beadle and Adams. Good. 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Beadle's Dime Library, No. 1098; 27, (5) ads pages; Complete and unmarked in original pictorial wrappers with 5 pages of ads at rear. Wrappers detached, split along spine, chipped at edges; general edgewear, shallow chipping, edges toned. Printed in triple columns. "July 1905" OCLC 7202107 Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (1843 1904) was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a mercenary throughout the 1860s, and an adventure fiction writer. He had service with General Max Hoffmann's staff in the Battle of Sadowa, Austria, in 1866 was in Crete against the Turks, and in the Khedive's army in Egypt. During 1869 he went to London but soon came back to the United States and enlisted with the Cuban rebels against Spain, running the blockade in the Hornet several times before it was surrendered to the U. S. Navy. He was a Colonel in the Cuban army as well as a Captain in their navy, and was captured, tried as a filibuster and condemned to death by the Spaniards, but escaped. Ingraham relocated to the American West where he met Buffalo Bill Cody. Ingraham soon worked as an advance agent for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 42965
- Title
- THE SILVER SHIP or The Sea Scouts of Seventy-Six A Romance of Outlawing Ashore and Afloat
- Author
- Ingraham, Col. Prentiss
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Beadle and Adams
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dime Novels, Pirate Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana and American History; 19th Century;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...