Author: BONEHILL, Ralph
Title: When Santiago Fell; or, the War Adventures of Two Chums
Description: New York, The Mershon Company, 1899. Hardcover. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt, black and ivory lettering and black/red/ivory pictorial stamping. vi, 280pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Very good. Mild edgewear and some rubbing; rear inner hinge delicate but expertly, archivally mended, thus strong. Tight, attractive first edition of the first title in the "Flag of Freedom Series" title, which issued three volumes in 1899 and three more up until 1902. Author/publisher Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930 -- Bonehill was one of his many pseudonyms) was an obscenely prolific scribbler of juvenile fiction. .

Keywords: Children's


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