Desk and debit, or, The catastrophes of a clerk / by Oliver Optic (author of "Young America abroad," "The army and navy stories," "The Woodville stories," "The Boat-Club stories," "The starry flag series," "The lake-shore series," etc.).

Author/creator Optic, Oliver author.
Format Electronic
PublicationBoston : Lee and Shepard, publishers ; New York : Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872.
Copyright Date©1871
Description1 online resource (334 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
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Other author/creatorHerrick, Henry Walker, 1824-1906, illustrator.
Other author/creatorKilburn, Samuel Smith, illustrator.
Other author/creatorSayer, Reimunt, illustrator.
Other author/creatorRussell, Stephen S. C., approximately 1836- illustrator.
Other author/creatorRichardson, John F., 1833-1904, illustrator.
Portion of title Catastrophes of a clerk
SeriesUpward and onward series ; 3
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Upward and onward series ; 3. ^A667709
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General noteIn original publisher's binding: brown net-grain cloth with a border stamped in blind on boards; title, author, series title, and decoration stamped in gilt on spine. Publisher's advertisements on yellow endpapers.
General notePublisher's advertisements on 2 pages at end.
General note"'Desk and debit' is the third of the 'Upward and onward series,' in which Phil Farringford appears as a clerk. The principal events of the story are located in Chicago and on Lake Michigan" --Preface, p. [5], dated at Harrison Square, Boston, June 7, 1870.
General noteAttributed to William Taylor Adams (i.e., "Oliver Optic").
General noteCopyright 1871 by William T. Adams.
General note"Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, 19 Spring Lane."--verso of title page.
General noteIn purple cloth.
General notePlates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by Henry Walker Herrick and Samuel Smith Kilburn.
General note"The upward and onward series."--series title, transposed from head of title page. Numbered list, p. [4]. "Onward and upward series"--series plate.
General note"Lee and Shepard's new juvenile books"--advertisement, [2] p. at end, and yellow endpapers. Wood-engravings signed by Samuel Smith Kilburn, Reimunt Sayer, and "Russell-Richardson" (i.e., Stephen S.C. Russell and John F. Richardson).
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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