Lightning Express, or, The rival academies / by Oliver Optic (author of "Young America abroad," "The army and navy stories," "The Woodville stories," "The Boat-Club stories," "The starry flag series," etc.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897, author.

Contributor:

Sayer, Reimunt, illustrator.

Kilburn, Samuel Smith, illustrator.

Series:

Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897. Lake Shore series.

Lake shore series ; 2

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Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroad stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Lee and Shepard

Notes:

In original publisher's binding: green cloth with a border stamped in blind on boards; title, series title, author, and decoration stamped in gilt on spine.

Publisher's advertisements on 8 pages at end.

"Lightning express is the second volume of the Lake Shore series, and has been published in Oliver Optic's magazine, Our boys and girls"--Preface, p. 5, dated at Harrison Square, Mass., July 21, 1869.

Attributed by William Taylor Adams (i.e., "Oliver Optic").

Copyright 1869 by William T. Adams.

"Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, no. 19 Spring Land"--verso of title page.

In purple cloth.

Plates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by Reimunt Sayer and Samuel Smith Kilburn.

"The Lake Shore series"--series title, transposed from head of title page. Numbered list, p. [4].

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

OCLC:

1162591490