THE BOAT CLUB; Or, The Bunkers of Rippleton

by Oliver Optic, William Taylor Adams

$750 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Boston: Brown, Bazin, and Company, 1855. First edition of this tale for boys, a pioneering novel of juvenile adventure fiction. Good. Item #33777 THE BOAT CLUB was a wildly popular book that went through 60 editions and spawned 5 more books in the Boat Club Series, sparking a wider trend for boy books – home-grown American tales of adventure, best recognized today in Mark Twain's canonical ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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