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Desk and debit, or, The catastrophes of a clerk / by Oliver Optic (author of "Young America abroad," "The army and navy stories," "The Woodville stories," "The boat-club stories," "The starry flag series," "The Lake-Shore series," etc.).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897, author.
- Series:
- Upward and onward series ; v. 3.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Upward and onward series ; v. 3
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Temperance--Juvenile literature.
- Temperance.
- Railroads--Juvenile literature.
- Railroads.
- Bookkeeping--Juvenile literature.
- Bookkeeping.
- Boats and boating--Juvenile literature.
- Boats and boating.
- Money--Juvenile literature.
- Money.
- Young men--Juvenile literature.
- Young men.
- Young women--Juvenile literature.
- Young women.
- African Americans--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Juvenile literature.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Lee and Shepard, publishers ;
- Notes:
- "'Desk and debit' is the third of the 'Upward and onward series,' in which Phil Farringford appears as a clerk. The principal events of the story are located in Chicago and on Lake Michigan" --Preface, p. [5], dated at Harrison Square, Boston, June 7, 1870.
- Attributed to William Taylor Adams (i.e., "Oliver Optic").
- Copyright 1871 by William T. Adams.
- "Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 19 Spring Lane."--verso of title page.
- In green cloth.
- Plates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by Henry Walker Herrick and Samuel Smith Kilburn.
- "The upward and onward series."--series title, transposed from head of title page. Numbered list, p. [4]. "Onward and upward series"--series plate.
- "Lee & Shepard's juvenile publications."--advertisement, [2] p. at end.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162341078
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