Search Results: the cruise of the dashaway by mannering may

Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1872. Hard Cover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fair-/No dust jacket; red cloth boards of inlaid design, gilt lettering, three pin-head holes on rear edge of binding, worn, rubbed, moderate soil, owner's name penciled on front endpaper, tack-sized hole on front endpaper, pen & ink etched frontispiece w/tissue guard, & decorated half-title , integrally sewn, mildly foxed endpapers, occasionally dog-earred throughout, basically clean & solid text, 221pp. Ads in rear of book. . Hardcover. F. 1872.

Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1868. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 221 pages plus 2 w/ads. Hardcover. "Helping Hand Series". Red cloth boards of inlaid design, gilt lettering. Pen & ink etched frontispiece w/tissue guard, & decorated half-title. In remarkable shape considering age, still a tight book. Edges and pages yellowed a bit with age. Record # 30463

Boston and New York: Lee & Shepard, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. pp 221 May Mannering's The Cruise Of The Dashaway in very good condition with a slight rubbing to both the top and bottom of the spine and light marks on the rear board.The book has an attractive patterned board and green cloth with a sand grain effect; adverts on the end papers. An attractive frontispiece illustration with a protective tissue guard. Very Good 1871

Boston:: Lee and Shepard Publishers,, 1868.. Hardcover -. Very good+ in tan cloth covers with a red illustration on the front cover and spine, gold title panel on the spine and a silver panel with Mayflower series on the front cover. A nice tight copy with only minor shelfwear to the edges of the boards, gift inscription in pencil on the front endpaper presenting this book to a pupil from his teacher.. Early printing. A story of a voyage by packet ship from New York to San Francisco in the early 1850's. Although life on shipboard, as told from the perspective of the two children of the captain, is much idealized, this is an still interesting and enjoyable book. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 2 plates by Thomas Nast, with the frontispiece being an amusing picture of the discovery of a little black girl, a stowaway, who calls herself 'Wooly Butts.' A title in the 'Mayflower Series for Girls.' 221 pages plus 6 pages of advertisements.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1868. [222]pp. plus one leaf of ads. Reddish-brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine designed and lettered in gilt. Pale yellow end papers. Frontispiece and extra illustrated title page, and two inserted plates. Issued as the third volume in the Helping Hand Series. Some wear to spine ends, clear tape repair to inner front hinge, and glue repairs to both inner hinges, a clean very good copy in general. The frontispiece and two inserted plates are by Thomas Nast; one is of Neptune, God of the Sea, another of a monkey swinging a cat by its tail! The frontispiece depicts the discovery of a stowaway, a young black girl who calls herself Wooly Butts. Ads on the final page are for Oliver Optic's Magazine, and for The Army and Navy Stories by Oliver Optic. This book was also issued in the Mayflower Series for Girls.