OPENING THE OYSTER: A STORY OF ADVENTURE. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1889. Octavo, tipped in frontispiece and illustrated title leaf, other illustrations in the text, original decorated brown cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold. First edition. Account of a five-year trip around the world by two men who leave New York City on foot without money or valuables and with only the clothes on their backs, a single change of underclothes, a few specified toilet articles, a revolver and thirty cartridges, and a flute. The object is to visit forty major cities in the world and to send a hundred letters and two hundred drawings to a weekly illustrated paper describing their travels. Part of the story is set in California. Baird and Greenwood 1670. Wright (III) 3611. Just a touch of wear to spine ends and corner tips, a very good copy. (#133481).
Price: $85.00
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