The Schoolmate. An Illustrated Monthly for Boys and Girls. June 1869. With Rough and Ready, Life Among New York News-Boys
Boston: Joseph H. Allen, 1869. Wraps. Fair. Item #020356
Illustrated wraps, although MISSING rear wrapper. Pagination runs 247-294, plus a frontis portrait plate of Paul Revere. Single issue of this serial magazine for children, featuring chapter 11 of "Rough and Ready, Life Among New York News-Boys," a novel by Horatio Alger; an installment of the Chimney Elf series by Jane Austin, "Bab, and her Blue Ribbon," a portrait of the poet Sappho, etc. FAIR condition. MISSING rear wrapper. General toning to the front wrapper, with some soiling, heavy offsetting along the fore edge and minor spotting and staining. Extremities rather scuffed, chipped and torn. Faint dampstaining to the last several pages.
Price: $55.00