First Edition. Tall octavo, original printed and illustrated wrappers, no. 5, volume III, seperate issue for November 1849. Contains Horatio Alger's third published work, a biography of the author Cervantes. This essay follows a poem and another essay on chivalry both published earlier in the same year by this short lived magazine. Also prints an obituary for Edgar Allan Poe who died in 1849. Very scarce Alger item. Very Good plus issue. Item #16877

First Edition. Complete run of 12 separate issues, #430 through #442, February 28 through May 23, 1891. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Extremely scarce serialized printing and true first appearance of Alger's young adult adventure novel published in The Argosy. Later published in book form in 1892 by Porter and Coates. This collection with #429 included which includes a short prospectus for Digging For Gold. A Very Good plus collection with only general minor soiling to most issues, edges crisp and wrappers generally clean, #442 with fore-edge bumped causing tiny chip to page edges, #436 small abrasion at top front wrap, #435 with inch closed tear to fore-edge of first 5 leaves and front wrap, spine creased. Item #10331

First Edition. Bound volume, XXIX, January to December 1869. contemporary 3/4 black leather, marbled boards, gilt at spine, raised bands. Contains the complete Alger story, Luck and Pluck; or John Oakley's Inheritance, in 12 parts. Very Good plus tight volume, moderate edge wear. Item #17151

First Edition. Complete run of 14 separate issues, #409 through #422, October 4, 1890 through January 3, 1891. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Extremely scarce serialized printing and true first appearance of Alger's young adult adventure novel published in The Argosy. Not published book form until 1897 by Henry T. Coates and Co. A Very Good to Near Fine attractive collection, with most issues in clean and crisp condition, some soiling at edges, #417 front wrapper with considerable soiling, #415 lacking wrappers, #411 with top corner of front wrapper with tanning. Item #10335

Early Printing, advertisement at front lists to fourth volume in the Luck and Pluck series, and to the fourth title in the Tattered Tom series. Octavo, original purple cloth over boards, blindstamped, stamped in gilt on spine, black and white plate half-title. A rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger, part of the Luck and Pluck series. Very Good, cocked, hinges sound, fading to spine, modest cloth wear, nicer copy than usually encountered. Item #250770