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• Author/Creator:Hemyng, Bracebridge, 1841-1901, author.
  
• Title:Jack Harkaway in America / by Bracebridge Hemyng.
  
• Publication:London : Hogarth House, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C., [1885?]
  
• Physical Description:126, 6 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: 2016 +85
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: 2016 +86
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN 2016 +85: Original illustrated wrappers in color. Blindstamped on back cover: "Lindmark's Book Shop, Poughkeepsie, New York." Advertisement for the publisher's series, "The Hogarth House Penny Library" on the back cover includes numbers 1 through 103. From the library of Edward G. Levy.
  BEIN 2016 +86: Variant back cover, with the publisher's advertisement for the series, "The Hogarth House Penny Library" including numbers 1 through 52 (possibly an earlier printing).Original illustrated wrappers in color. Spine mutilated with loss of text. Penciled markings have been made next to some of the titles advertised on the covers; numbers are written in an unidentified manuscript in the outside margin on page 4, first count. From the library of Edward G. Levy.
  
• Notes:Title from cover.
  Estimated date of publication based on the fact that William Cate, who in 1881 took over control of Hogarth House, moved it to 32, Bouverie Street (the address on the cover and title page) in 1885.
  Printed in double columns.
  Printed sideways along the bound margins on many pages are statements about promotions and advertisements for other series published by Hogarth House.
  Originally issued in parts. The illustrated issue wrappers for each part are bound in.
  Pages 1-6, second count, are the first and second chapters from "Jack Harkaway out west among the Indians," reprinted to promote the new publication.
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Hogarth House Harkaway series
  Hogarth House Harkaway series.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Levy, Edward G., 1898-1990--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Dime novels.
  Juvenile literature.
  Publishers' advertisements.
  Booksellers' stamps (Provenance)
  
• Also listed under:Hogarth House, publisher.
  Lindmark's Book Shop, bookseller.
  England--London.