Author: OTIS, JAMES
Title: James Otis's Toby Tyler Or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Description: Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Illustrated by Elizabeth Tedder. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued thus without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing, edge wear, and scrapes. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "After his stern Uncle Daniel describes him as a "millstone" for neglecting his chores, ten year old Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus. There he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, a frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games. His employer Harry Tupper, the candy vendor, is dishonest and greedy. He convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back and hides their letters. Toby resigns himself to circus life, even scoring himself a much bigger role, when he replaces the uppity, self-centered boy bareback rider after an injury. When Toby discovers, with the help of Mr. Stubbs, that Harry lied to him about his aunt and uncle he departs the circus for home." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Title: James Otis's Toby Tyler Or Ten Weeks with a Circus
Description: Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1938. Hardcover. Illustrated by Elizabeth Tedder. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued thus without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing, edge wear, and scrapes. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. "After his stern Uncle Daniel describes him as a "millstone" for neglecting his chores, ten year old Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus. There he soon befriends Mr. Stubbs, a frisky chimpanzee. However, the circus isn't all fun and games. His employer Harry Tupper, the candy vendor, is dishonest and greedy. He convinces Toby that his Aunt Olive and Uncle Daniel don't love him or want him back and hides their letters. Toby resigns himself to circus life, even scoring himself a much bigger role, when he replaces the uppity, self-centered boy bareback rider after an injury. When Toby discovers, with the help of Mr. Stubbs, that Harry lied to him about his aunt and uncle he departs the circus for home." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Price: US$ 15.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 37489
- Book number: 37489
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