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.
Other author Herrick, Henry Walker, 1824-1906, illustrator.
Other author Kilburn, Samuel Smith, illustrator.
Format Electronic
PublicationBoston : Lee and Shepard, publishers ; New York : Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1873.
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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Portion of title Catastrophes of a clerk
SeriesUpward and onward series ; v. 3
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Upward and onward series ; v. 3. ^A667709
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
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 green 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 & Shepard's juvenile publications."--advertisement, [2] p. at end.
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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