Slow and Sure; or, From the Street to the Shop (Tattered Tom Series)

Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1872. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine toned, bookplate and ink name on front endpapers, hinges starting. 1872 Hard Cover. viii, 280, [2] pp. 8vo. Bennett 162. Original violet cloth, gilt spine titles, blind-stamped borders and decorations on boards, yellow endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, engraved series page precedes title page. One of many young adult 'rags to riches' stories written by the popular author during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author whose principal output was formulaic juvenile novels that followed the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class security and comfort. His novels were hugely popular in their day.