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Ben Bruce : scenes in the life of a Bowery newsboy
- Title
- Ben Bruce : scenes in the life of a Bowery newsboy / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; with illustrations by J. Watson Davis.
- Author
- Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899.
- Publication
- New York : A. L. Burt, c1901.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | NAS (Alger, H. Ben Bruce) | Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 |
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- Description
- iv, 313, 10 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- Fifteen-year-old Ben runs away from the farm home of his stepfather and heads to New York City, but he later returns to save his stepfather from a swindler.
- Subject
- Youth > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
- Stepfathers > Juvenile fiction
- Runaway teenagers > Juvenile fiction
- Farmers > Juvenile fiction
- Success > Juvenile fiction
- Diligence > Juvenile fiction
- Poets > Juvenile fiction
- Business > Juvenile fiction
- New York (N.Y.) > History > Juvenile fiction
- Genre/Form
- Publishers' catalogues – 1901.
- Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1901.
- Note
- Publisher's advertisements on 10 pages follow text.
- Binding (note)
- Copy in *KH bound in publisher's color pictorial blue cloth boards.
- Call Number
- NAS (Alger, H. Ben Bruce)
- OCLC
- 192021984
- Author
- Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899.
- Title
- Ben Bruce : scenes in the life of a Bowery newsboy / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; with illustrations by J. Watson Davis.
- Imprint
- New York : A. L. Burt, c1901.
- Binding
- Copy in *KH bound in publisher's color pictorial blue cloth boards.
- Added Author
- Burt, A. L. (Albert Levi), 1843-1913. PublisherDavis, J. Watson. EngraverA.L. Burt Company, publisher
- Research Call Number
- NAS (Alger, H. Ben Bruce)*KH 1901 Alger 15-1184