Author: TURNER, E.S.
Title: Boys Will Be Boys: The Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, Et. Al
Description: London, Michael Joseph, 1948. Hardcover. Introduction by Captain C.B. Fry. 8vo. Red cloth with silver spine lettering and decorations, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 269pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Front flyleaf ownership signature; jacket complete and attractive but edgeworn, with triangular paper loss at upper right of front panel. Tight and nice third printing of this survey of these colorful popular fictional characters from the Victorian-era dime novels or "penny dreadfuls." Of interest and relevance is a decorative-edged bookplate on half-title page boldly signed and inscribed in blue fineline by the modern scholar whose name is most closely associated with Horatio Alger, the prolific novelist famed for his rags-to-riches boys whose exploits filled many a dime novel and many a novel: "With all / best wishes / from / Ralph D Gardner." RALPH D. GARDNER (1923-2005) was a noted New York journalist, radio talk show host and advertising company founder best remembered for a popular 1964 biography and bibliography of Alger's works. .

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