Binding: Original Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; 196, [2] pages
Publisher: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1894, New York
Illustrator: Illustrated by Florence K. Upton

[Book #19950]

An attractive, about Fine First Edition in gilt and black stamped white cloth, frontispiece with tissue gard present. In the rather elusive, about good, somewhat tattered and chipped dust-jacket. A beautiful representative of a children's book in an early dust-jacket;

Is it a true story? That is the question which will be almost sure to come to the lips of children who read about Carlino's strange adventures. This this I may answer both yes and no. I cannot say that everything has happened just as I have related it. On the other hand, facts are often stranger than fiction, and in this case the very incidents which seem the most unlikely are really true. -- from Beckman's dedication ; B & W Illustrations