The Yankee enterprise, or the two millionaires; and other thrilling tales
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About This Item
Boston: Wentworth & Co, 1855. 8vo, pp. iv, [3], 26-334; steel-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown blindstamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gray; frontispiece foxed in the margins, spine ends chipped level with text block, corners worn; good and sound. A series of "articles treating on the beauties of nature, as seen on the tempest-tossed ocean, or sublimely viewed from the cloud-capped mountain." Included are: The Two Millionaires, by Sarah Fry; "I owe you nothing, Sir"; Notes of a Journey Across the Isthmus of Panama; The Two Passports; Australia and Van Diemen's Land; The Fairy Cup, by Alfred Crowquill; The White Swallow: an Indian Tale; Fowling in Faroe and Shetland; A Fuqueer's Curse; The deserts of Africa; Life in an Indiaman; The Dealer in Wisdom; and, The Key of the Street. The book was also published as The Mirror of the World, by Moulton Hampton [pseud.?]; and, Rovings on Land and Sea, by Henry E. Davenport.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
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- 54668
- Title
- The Yankee enterprise, or the two millionaires; and other thrilling tales
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wentworth & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1855
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....