ALGER JR. , HORATIO - The Odds Against Him Or, Carl Crawford's Experience

Philadelphia, PA: The Penn Publishing Company, 1890. Early printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is an early printing, but not a First Edition. The title page includes the date MCM. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking the 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 and rubbing. Both front and rear inner hinges have cracking. The text pages are clean and bright. "Alger thrived in the highly disciplined and regimented Harvard environment, winning scholastic and other prestigious awards. His genteel poverty and less-than-aristocratic heritage, however, barred him from membership in the Hasty Pudding Club and the Porcellian Club. In 1849 he became a professional writer when he sold two essays and a poem to the Pictorial National Library, a Boston magazine. He began reading Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and other modern writers of fiction and cultivated a lifelong love for Longfellow, whose verse he sometimes employed as a model for his own. He was chosen Class Odist and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa Society honors in 1852, eighth in a class of 88" (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

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