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Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, clean. Tightly bound. r*30/10/2024. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923. 8vo, 279 pp. 8 color plates. Navy cloth with illustrated plate to upper board, gilt decoration and lettering to backstrip. A very good copy with light rubbing to the board corners. § Riverside Bookshelf series. First published in 1870, Aldrich's semi-autobiographical novel follows the mischievous adventures of Tom Bailey, a young boy growing up in a fictional New England town during the mid-1800s. The book was a pioneer in "bad boy" literature, which rejected the overly moralistic tone of its predecessors and attempted a more humorous and realistic portrayal of childhood. Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer followed.…