Dick Haley: A thrilling story of poverty, heroism and suffering, dealing with real life and a vital problem of our Public Schools
by O. B. Whitaker, Oliver Barr Whitaker
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About This Item
Dayton, OH: Christian Publishing Association, 1910. First edition. 12mo,
Whitaker was the President of the Union Christian College, in Merom, Indiana. His first book, HERBERT BROWN (1905) went through 7 editions quickly. "Dick Haley" was the son of a miner who was killed in a saloon fight. This novel tells of the difficulties which ensued in his life. Dick's school days ended at the age of nine. Told with some Indiana dialect. "On that day when [the teacher] refused the flowers his innocent hands had gathered - on that day Dick Haley's teacher robbed her state of a true and useful citizen, and gave it, instead, a murderer." Illustrated with striking photogravures.
Whitaker was the President of the Union Christian College, in Merom, Indiana. His first book, HERBERT BROWN (1905) went through 7 editions quickly. "Dick Haley" was the son of a miner who was killed in a saloon fight. This novel tells of the difficulties which ensued in his life. Dick's school days ended at the age of nine. Told with some Indiana dialect. "On that day when [the teacher] refused the flowers his innocent hands had gathered - on that day Dick Haley's teacher robbed her state of a true and useful citizen, and gave it, instead, a murderer." Illustrated with striking photogravures.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6417
- Title
- Dick Haley
- Author
- O. B. Whitaker, Oliver Barr Whitaker
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Christian Publishing Association
- Place of Publication
- Dayton, OH
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- indiana author, Oliver Barr Whitaker, prohibition, anti-saloon movement, public schools, temperance,
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / General;
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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- First Edition
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- 12mo
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