first edition Hardcover
1906 · New York
by Hopkins, William J.; Illustrated by Ruth M. Hallock. [Aviation Fiction]
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Ruth M. Hallock. 346pp. Octavo [21 cm] Bluish-gray cloth over boards with lettering and pictorial stamping on the backstrip and front board. Covers cocked. Front free endpaper absent. Contemporary owner's name and address on rear free endpaper. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. Old 1948 Bleiler (dropped). With a frontispiece and seven illustrated plates by Ruth M. Hallock. William John Hopkins (1863-1926) was an American author and scientist known for his sea stories for children. (Inventory #: 67422)
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