Description: "Miss Adelaide F. Samuels", as identified on the title page, wrote 4 "Dick Travers" travel story (fiction) books in the early 1870s: PALM LAND; or, Dick Travers in the Chagos Islands" (1872), THE LOST TAR; or, Dick Travers in Africa (1874); ON THE WAVE; or, Dick Travers Aboard the Happy Jack (1872), and this one - LITTLE CRICKET; or, Dick Travers in London (1872). All were published by Lee and Shepard, and in 1874, Lee and Shephard published, Dick Travers Abroad, which contains all of the four volumes. In "London..", the volume of this listing, "Dick is kidnapped and put to work by a wicked old ragman.". It is illustrated by John Andrews-Son. The copyright page states a date of 1872; the title page of this book has the date 1873. The book is in VERY GOOD CONDITION. Clean green cloth boards, clear gilt spine titling, some loss of the green color on the boards, light edge and corner wear. Yellow endpapers, not cracked. There is a bit of paper residue on the endpaper behind the front board, suggesting there may have been a bookplate affixed there at one time. 95 clean and solidly bound pages, 4 illustrations - two before the title page separated by tissue, and two in the book (three of these shown in listing photos). On the author found online: "... Samuels's first series, Dick and Daisy, chronicled the gradual rise of two orphaned siblings, Daisy and Dick Travers. It received a brief, but favorable, review in Harper's. (The reviewer felt it was "nearly if not quite as good" as Amanda Douglas's Kathie Stories.) Samuels continued the characters' adventures the following year in the four-volume Dick Travers Abroad, and, several years later, added a single volume Daisy Travers; or, The Girls of Hive Hall (1876). She also published several articles in juvenile periodicals, including at least two in St Nicholas in the late 1870s. In 1891, Adelaide Samuels married Orville Bassett in New Bedford, Mass. She published at least one work after her marriage, a collection of nursery rhymes titled Father Gander's Melodies for Mother Goose's Grandchildren (1894). Her entry in Woman's Who's Who of America from 1914-15 notes that she was a Presbyterian, a member of the Civic Club and of the Guild and Grange, that her recreational activities included "music [and] reading," and that she "Favors woman['s] suffrage." No information about her date of death has been located." B
Price: 35 USD
Location: Burtonsville, Maryland
End Time: 2024-09-14T18:36:30.000Z
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Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Adelaide Samuels
Publisher: Lee & Shepard
Topic: Literature
Subject: Exploration & Travel
Location: B7
