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Freaks of fortune / by Oliver Optic.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897, author.
- Series:
- Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897. Starry flag series ; II.
- Oliver Optic's Starry flag series ; II
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Young men--Juvenile literature.
- Young men.
- Young women--Juvenile literature.
- Young women.
- Money--Juvenile literature.
- Money.
- Theft--Juvenile literature.
- Theft.
- Boats and boating--Juvenile literature.
- Boats and boating.
- African Americans--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Abduction--Juvenile literature.
- Abduction.
- Courts--Juvenile literature.
- Courts.
- Voyages and travels.
- Shipwrecks--Juvenile literature.
- Shipwrecks.
- Uncles--Juvenile literature.
- Uncles.
- New England--Juvenile literature.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Lee & Shepard
- Notes:
- Title from added, engraved title page.
- "'Freaks of fortune' is the fourth of the serial stories published in 'Our boys and girls.' It was written in response to a great number of calls for a sequel to 'The starry flag.'"--Preface, p. 5, signed by William T. Adams, and dated at Harrison Square, Mass., July 27, 1868. The title "Freaks of fortune" was apparently later designated the second item in the series.
- By William Taylor Adams (i.e., "Oliver Optic").
- Issued with five other titles in a 19 x 17 x 13 cm. stiff-paper box. Box labels printed in red and blue ink. Box cover transcribed, "Oliver Optic's Starry flag series illustrated Lee & Shepard Boston. 1. The starry flag. 2. Freaks of fortune. 3. Breaking away. 4. Seek and find. 5. Make or break. 6. Down the river."
- Copyright 1868 by William T. Adams.
- "Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, no. 19 Spring Lane."--verso of title page.
- Last page blank.
- In terra-cotta cloth.
- Plates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by Samuel Smith Kilburn and "C." (i.e., W.L. Champney?).
- "The starry flag series"--series title, and numbered list, p. [4]. "Oliver Optic's starry flag series"--second leaf.
- Dated (preface, page 6): "July 27, 1868."
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162503543
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