Number Seven Queer Street Etc Short Stories

Author : Edward Eggleston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331503002
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Queer Stories for Boys and Girls (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Eggleston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Covers in years past, but always to meet with disaster that was no fault of theirs. Two little books that contained a part of the stories herein reprinted were burned up - plates, cuts and all - in the Chicago fire of 1871. Another book, with some of these stories in it, was issued by a pub lisher in Boston, who almost immediately failed, leaving the plates in pawn. These fell into the hands of a man who issued a surreptitious edition, and then into the possession of another, to whom at length I was forced to pay a round sum for the plates, in order to extricate my unfortunate tales from the hands of freebooters. This is therefore the first fair and square issue in book form that these stories have had. For this they have been revised by the author, and printed from plates wholly new by the liber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.