[8], 280 + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with 7 (of 8) plates from designs by T.M.R. Whitwell. Original red illustrated cloth. Reprint of the corrected edition (see below). The author's sixth book. The c. 1909 reprint which includes the 8 pp. ad supplement titled "Beautiful Books for Young People". "When this story was appearing serially in the Captain October 1904-March 1905, some anonymous idiot wrote to the edtiors pointing out certain errors in the camp chapters. I am obliged. If he reads these chapters now, he will observe—with a thrill of joy—that I have made the corrections he suggested." - Preface. McIlvaine A6a[3]. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1909, (year of reprint?).
[8], 280 + [8] ad pp. Illustrated with 7 (of 8) plates from designs by T.M.R. Whitwell. Original red illustrated cloth. Reprint of the corrected edition (see below). The author's sixth book. The c. 1909 reprint which includes the 8 pp. ad supplement titled "Beautiful Books for Young People". "When this story was appearing serially in the Captain October 1904-March 1905, some anonymous idiot wrote to the edtiors pointing out certain errors in the camp chapters. I am obliged. If he reads these chapters now, he will observe—with a thrill of joy—that I have made the corrections he suggested." - Preface. McIlvaine A6a[3]. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, dated 1909, (year of reprint?).
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