[Item #46660] Boy Trapper Series: Buried Treasure. Harry CASTLEMON, pseud. Charles Austin Fosdick.

Boy Trapper Series: Buried Treasure

Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., [circa mid-1890s]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); deep green pictorial publisher's cloth, spine stamped in gilt; v,290+14, frontis.,2 plates. Spine cocked; mild wear and scratching to boards, spine extremities and hinges slightly bumped and rubbed; toning to text edges and margins; threads visible at signatures; ownership inscription ffep; second plate illustration sprung. 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. "Buried Treasure" (1877) is volume 1 in his Boy Trapper series, which also contains "Boy Trapper" (1878) and "The Mail Carrier" (1879). This edition contains fourteen pages of supplemental advertising material for other books available from the publisher, which date this reprint to at least 1896.

Price: $40.00

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