STAND BY THE UNION


Written by Oliver Optic (William Taylor Adams) and published by Lee and Shepard, Boston. Copyright 1891. There is no printing date, but the book was printed sometime between 1896 and 1897 as the book lists to On The Staff (1896) in the B & G on Land series and mentions other books in preparation—the next being At the Front (1897). It is the fourth story, of six, in Optic’s The Blue and Gray Afloat Series.

The book is complete with frontispiece and 5 illustration plates as called for.

From Wikipedia:

William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Adams first began to write at the age of 28, and his first book, Hatchie, the Guardian Slave (1853), was published under the pseudonym of Warren T. Ashton. It was only a modest success, but Adams was undaunted. In 1855 Adams produced his first real hit, the initial volume in the Boat Club series. Adams continued to write until he died in Dorchester, March 27, 1897. Among his best-known works were the two "Blue & Gray" series, which were set during the Civil War.

Adams wrote well over 100 books in total, most of them for a boy audience, and the majority of these in series of four to six volumes. He never wrote under his own name. Though "Oliver Optic" was the pseudonym he used most, his work also appeared under the bylines "Irving Brown," "Clingham Hunter, M.D.," and "Old Stager." Like many children's authors of his day, he was additionally an editor, and many of his works first appeared in Oliver Optic's Magazine.

DESCRIPTION:

367 pages

7 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches

hardcover

CONDITION:

This hard-cover book is in good+ condition. The cloth hardcover is clean and shows some wear at the corners and spine ends. The spine is darkened or faded. There is an old bookseller’s stamp in the upper corner of the front pastedown. The binding or front hinge is cracked just before the frontispiece and the frontispiece has a one inch tear in the outer edge and a 1/8 inch tear in the lower edge. The interior is otherwise nice with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is slightly toned with age. The binding is holding well with no loose or missing pages.

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