Baggage & Boots; or, Smith's First Peep at America: An Instructive Tale of Travel and Adventure

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First edition ex-library ("Wilson College, London") hardcover, bound in brown cloth, with gilt and black lettering and illustration and decoration on front cover, and gilt lettering and decor on spine, is in G condition, having a slight bend to volume (see photo); slightly bumped and worn corners; light surface and edge wear to covers; on first fixed endpaper therre is a pasted-on award notification: "Prize Awarded to Percy Arthur, Archer Gooch for Diligence & Perserverance during the year 1883. William H. Head, A.C.P., Principal", and on the first free endpaper is a dark blue stamp that reads: "Wilson College, A High School for Boys, 2, Alkham Rd., Cazenove Rd."; some shaking to volume, and very light handling wear; section of publisher's other books listed in back. Illustrated with 39 engravings. The travels of an Englishman in the United States and Canada (Quebec) in the Nineteenth Century. Some cities and places covered: New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Louisville, the Mammoth Cave, St. Louis, Chicago, Niagara Falls, Hudson River, Boston, Durham Terrace. Travel. History. Observation. N° de ref. del artículo 1072

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