Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1926
Seller: The Corner Bookshop, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good-. Memorial. Soiled and worn pictorial boards, backstrip mostly missing, edge worn, paper at front bottom corner is missing, paper browning, inner hinge cracking, else internally good. Illustrations and cover by Francis G. Attwood. Foreword by Edward S. Martin. Written by the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and appeared in its columns in 1879-1880.
Language: English
Published by Books for Libraries Press, 1970
ISBN 10: 083695517X ISBN 13: 9780836955170
Seller: Green Ink Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. No Jacket. - Minor shelfwear - foxing to edges of text block, endpapers and first few pages - Book ow/ solid, clean and content ow/ bright 251 pages.
Language: English
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1887
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Iii, 348 Pp. Green Cloth Stamped In Gilt And Brown. First Edition. Very Good, Light Rubbing, Thin Vertical Discoloration On Front Cover. Two Tiny Frays At Top Of Spine.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1926
Seller: Old Friends Used Books, Manchester, CT, U.S.A.
Francis G. Attwood (illustrator). First Thus. Good condition book. Boards are clean but there is a loss of two inches of paper to spine at top and bottom. [1805].
£ 13.90
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Published by LAMSON, WOLFFE AND CO., 1896
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop / Ruffolo Enterprises, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. wear to cover and spine. minor wear to endpapers. black ink writing to first endpage from a preivous owner, which states "Delorah Morris from Aunt Julia Xmas 1899". slight deckeling to edges. wear to some pages, otherwise pages are clean. black illustration before title page DATE PUBLISHED: 1896 EDITION: 162.
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1926
Seller: The Corner Bookshop, Bath, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Memorial. Hardcover has pictorial boards, lightly browned covers, very good in price clipped, torn, taped, chipped, tattered jacket--now in protective Brodart cover. Illustrations and cover by Francis G. Attwood. Foreword by Edward S. Martin. Written by the editors of the Harvard Lampoon and appeared in its columns in 1879-1880.
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Memorial edition. 8 x 10 in. Paper boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners bumped and chipped. spine chipped with small tears and loss to spine head. Covers very clean. Inner joint starting at the dedication pg and two pages partly detached. Child. Stax.
Published by Boston, Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1896
Seller: Martin Kaukas Books, Manchester, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Good plus condition, no dust jacket, owners bookplate on front fly paste down, spine lightly age darkened, Interior tight and clean. 8vo, blue hard cover, top edge gilt. Papyrus series. Illustrations by F. G. Attwood. 162 pgs. plus 7 pgs. of advertising.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926. Memorial edition. Externally fair to good, internally good to very good. 1926 facimile of 1895 edition, illustrated with engravings. Color illustrated hardcover, 28 pages. Covers a little age-browned with some chipping to the spine ends and a bit of finger soil, good hinges, sound binding, pages slightly age-yellowed but clean, name and date at top of front free endpaper, no other markings. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926
Seller: Structure, Verses, Agency Books, Spray, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Memorial Edition. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Moderately worn and mildly soiled covers, peeling of illustrated paper over boards at spine, cracking at paste-down. Published in 1926, Memorial Edition, 28 pp., another addition to the The Brimstone Stories, being a graduated series of Moral Works, including Rollo in a Billiard Room, Rollo Learning to Smoke, and so forth, one of a series of a dozen tales of child morality. Long protected in a heavy plastic sleeve.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
£ 26.02
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Published by Brentano's, New York, 1923
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Brown paper-covered boards; small 8vo. 130pp. With an introduction by Dorian Abbott. Eleven poems by Malcolm Cowley, published in the same year as his first book, six years before his first regularly published book Blue Juniata. Contributions from Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Jack Merten, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelwright. There had been a previous anthology published in 1917, with poems by Cummings and Dos Passos, hence the title. This copy is very good, spine thumbed, the name Evelyn Whitehouse with date on ffep; lacking the dustjacket.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1926
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 28p. A near fine copy, in a fair to good d.j. which has a quarter-size chip at the top of the front panel and a small chip and a three inch tear at the bottom of the back panel. A parody, first published in the Harvard Lampoon in 1879 and 1880, of Jacob Abbott's Rollo books, a popular children's series begun in 1834. Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall Reprint, First Published in 1879 & 1880. Book.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1926
Seller: Wild Hills Books, Largo, FL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Francis G. Attwood (illustrator). First Thus. 28 pages. With a Foreword by Edward S. Martin. A few little chips and tears to jacket otherwise complete and attractive. Gift inscription to front free endpaper.
Condition: New.
Memorial edition of an 1895 title, based on Harvard Lampoon columns during the years 1879 - 1880; small 4to., paper covered pictorial boards, illustrations by Francis G. Atwood; very good in heavily chipped dust jacket.
Condition: New.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1926
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Pencil name of a noted architect, modest erosion at the spine ends, fresh and very good with remants of the dustwrapper laid in, and in a partially perished glassine sleeve that we believe was probably original. A parody, first published in the Harvard Lampoon in 1879 and 1880, of Jacob Abbott's "Rollo Books.".
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston & New York, 1926
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
1st thus. "Memorial edition". [10], [7] - 28 pp. The illustrations & cover by Francis G. Attwood. Royal 8vo. 10-1/4" x 7-1/4" A reissuance of a parody of Jacob Abbott's ROLLO series, which initially appeared in the Havard Lampoon, 1879-1880. Laura Richard's copy, with her signature on the ffep. VG (pos to the ffep)/Abt VG (edgewear with triangular pc msg from the top edge of the front panel/people in front panel design have been 'colore' with violet high-lighter). Decorative paper-wrapped boards. Dust jacket, with design matching that of the boards.
Condition: New.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014627818 ISBN 13: 9781014627810
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC Dez 2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 1025244273 ISBN 13: 9781025244273
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A bad penny' by John T. Wheelwright invites readers into a classic tale of youthful adventure and family life set against the rich historical backdrop of 19th-century New England. This engaging juvenile fiction delves into the lives of boys navigating the complexities of their world, where the pull of the sea and the influence of seafaring relatives shape their destinies.
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
£ 14.60
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Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "A bad penny" by John T. Wheelwright invites readers into a classic tale of youthful adventure and family life set against the rich historical backdrop of 19th-century New England. This engaging juvenile fiction delves into the lives of boys navigating the complexities of their world, where the pull of the sea and the influence of seafaring relatives shape their destinies. The story masterfully blends elements of historical fiction with the universal themes of family and personal growth. Readers will encounter spirited young protagonists and the memorable presence of sailors and uncles, whose experiences ripple through the household. Wheelwright captures the essence of a bygone era, bringing to life the distinctive culture and challenges of New England in the 1800s. It's an absorbing narrative of boyhood, family bonds, and the thrill of action and adventure, offering a vivid portrait of a historical period through the eyes of its young characters. This enduring tale promises a compelling journey into the heart of a time-honored adventure.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2025
ISBN 10: 1025244273 ISBN 13: 9781025244273
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1926
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Second Edition. Stated second edition on title page. Covers soiled, edges worn, some loss to paper over spine, archival repair to ffe. Publisher's list on ffe and front fly. 28 pages, rear endpaper loose.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC Dez 2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 1025244281 ISBN 13: 9781025244280
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 'A bad penny' by John T. Wheelwright invites readers into a classic tale of youthful adventure and family life set against the rich historical backdrop of 19th-century New England. This engaging juvenile fiction delves into the lives of boys navigating the complexities of their world, where the pull of the sea and the influence of seafaring relatives shape their destinies.
Language: English
Published by Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2025
ISBN 10: 1025244273 ISBN 13: 9781025244273
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
£ 16.82
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