LOCKE, John S[taples]

A Brave Struggle; or, The Orphan's Inheritance

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, [1886]. Edition unstated (see note below). Small quarto; publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth boards; floral endpapers; 256pp. Slight rubbing of gilt to front cover, else a tight, attractive copy, with text clean and unmarked, internal hinges uncharacteristically sound and un-stressed. Very Good or better. Illustrations by Herbert A. Bone, Charles Trevor Garland, and James Henry Moser. A quite attractive Victorian juvenile in pictorial publisher's cloth.

Undated, but presumably this McLoughlin edition is a ca. 1890s reprint. The title was originally published by Cassell (New York), per OCLC and Annual American Catalogue for 1887. Not noted in Baumgarten (2004); nor, curiously, are any other titles by Locke, who published at least three works for juvenile audiences between 1886 and 1895.

Price: $50.00

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