This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...of the wonderful powers of liquid air. Uncle Ike and the boy had been reading about the new discovery and the wonderful things it was going to do in revolutionizing the motive power of the world, that when it was announced that Prof. Tripler, the discoverer, was going to show all about it, the old man ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...of the wonderful powers of liquid air. Uncle Ike and the boy had been reading about the new discovery and the wonderful things it was going to do in revolutionizing the motive power of the world, that when it was announced that Prof. Tripler, the discoverer, was going to show all about it, the old man got two seats right up in front, and took the boy, with an opera glass, and for two hours they had sat and listened to the rambling remarks of the Professor, and seen the liquid air do things that didn't amount to anything, in a manner to cause people to look at each other and wonder what it was all about. And after the show they had gone home, where Uncle Ike could make up lost time in smoking his pipe, which he had sadly missed at the theater. They were going to talk it over before going to bed. "I think it is all a fake," said the boy, as he yawned and unlaced his shoes. "How does anybody know it was liquid air that he dipped out of the tank? It looked to me a good deal like a seidlitz powder." "Oh, don't talk that way about great inventions," said the old man, as he parted his coat-tails and stood with his back to the grate, to warm up his thoughts, as the heat went up his spine to his hair. "There were kickers when the telegraph was first discovered. When the telephone was invented lots of idiots wouldn't believe you could talk over a wire, and steam was considered a work of the devil. Before you are old enough to vote you will see our houses heated by liquid air, which will freeze the microbes and boil ice so it will be red hot. You will see the locomotives squirting liquid air into the fields as they go along, and freezing the cattle so they can be carried to market all...
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Add this copy of Peck's Red-Headed Boy (Vg 1901 Hc) to cart. $60.00, very good condition, Sold by Rivertown Fine Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Prairie du Chien, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1901 by Hurst.
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G. C. Widney. Very Good. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Pub by Hurst, 1901, NAP, presumed 1st Edition. NOT exlib. VG cond. hardcover now in archival grade Brodart, no dj. Blue-green cloth over bds w/ full size white, black & yellow pict illustration on front cover, & white & black dec & lettering on spine. Very light exterior wear. P/O's bookplate inside front cover. Binding lightly shaken but holding, o/w book is complete, intact & unmarked. Illus in b&w by G.C. Widney. 224pp. Square, straight, tight & clean except as noted, overall VG cond. We have quite a few of these Peck's Bad Boy titles in stock--some listed online, some not--& we'd be happy to discount for multiple purchase & to combine postage. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.