CASTLEMON, Harry (pseud. Charles Austin Fosdick)

Boy Trapper Series: The Mail Carrier

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., [circa mid-1890s]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); deep green pictorial publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt; v,326+8, frontis.,2 plates. Spine cocked; mild wear and scratching to boards, spine extremities slightly rubbed; toning to text edges and margins; threads visible at signatures; ownership inscription ffep; frontispiece tissue torn, mostly lost. Else Very Good.

Charles Austin Fosdick, under the pseudonym Harry Castlemon, was a prolific and popular author of boys' adventure books, from the 1860's to the early 1900s. "The Mail Carrier" (1879) is volume 3 in his Boy Trapper series, which also contains "The Buried Treasure" (1877) and "Boy Trapper" (1878). This edition contains eight pages of supplemental advertising material for other books available from the publisher, which date this reprint to at least 1896; supplement is possibly missing a final six pages, which are present in another volume in this series.

Price: $40.00

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