A Fancy of Hers; The Disagreeable Woman; Two Lost Novels for Adults by the Man Loved for His Rags-To-Riches Tales for Juveniles
by Alger, Horatio
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0442247168
- ISBN 13
- 9780442247164
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About This Item
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company [0-442-24716-8] 1981. (Hardcover) 179pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, index. "Those who have enjoyed his rags-to-riches juvenile stories - and those who have never read Alger before - can now enjoy two ADULT novels, published for the first time as a bound volume under his name... A Fancy of Hers follows the adventure of Mabel Frost Fairfax, an enchanting debutante who tired of the 'magic inner circle of metropolitan society.' Incognito, she seeks employment as a teach in New Hampshire... The Disagreeable Woman is a choice example of Horatio Alger's New York narratives....Center of attraction is the mysterious Disagreeable Woman, aloof, secretive, and sharp-tongued". Introduction by Ralph D. Gardner. (Fiction, Novels).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150077
- Title
- A Fancy of Hers; The Disagreeable Woman; Two Lost Novels for Adults by the Man Loved for His Rags-To-Riches Tales for Juveniles
- Author
- Alger, Horatio
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0442247168
- ISBN 13
- 9780442247164
- Publisher
- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Fiction, Novels
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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