This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...the most important part of it. We dropped down by our hands very easily, and found ourselves on the rocky floor of the cavern, surrounded by the goodly piles of merchandise and wares, on which, as yet, however, we felt that we dared not lay a finger. The silence; the gloom, ending in darkness, of the remote chambers of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...the most important part of it. We dropped down by our hands very easily, and found ourselves on the rocky floor of the cavern, surrounded by the goodly piles of merchandise and wares, on which, as yet, however, we felt that we dared not lay a finger. The silence; the gloom, ending in darkness, of the remote chambers of the vault; the dusty mould that invested the chests; and the damp, earthy odour of the place, chilled our blood, and fixed us like 'statues to the spot. We spoke but in whispers; for, when one coughed, a responsive cough was returned, which again and again reverberated and died in hollow echoes. We were more than half inclined again to retreat, and leave these matters as we had found them; and some slight, though evaporating, doubts as to our right to meddle, together with an undefined dread of some one pouncing on us, if we touched the goods, kept us honest for a space; and many an anxious eye was turned the while to the superincumbent mass which arched the cave we stood in, and spanned the gulf beyond. Reader, what would you have done? Is there any harm in finding a lost treasure, and in using it, if the owners, and all who could partake of their original rights, are dead?--Certainly not. The thing is done every day; and there is not an estate in Britain that has not, in this way, at some time, been lost and found: no, nor a jewel, nor an ounce of gold and silver, that is not the result of some chance discovery; for nature, we know, was the first proprietor. So we may begin and help ourselves, may we not? We looked to Prout, whose eyes had been riveted On a chest before him. He gave a nod, leaped from the ground with a sudden impulse, and, striking his thighs with his hands, he said, "Come on, we may be gentlemen now, if we like. What'...
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Add this copy of The Young Islanders: Or, the School-Boy Crusoes; a Tale to cart. $16.33, good condition, Sold by Vashon Island Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vashon, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1878 by J. B. Lippincott.
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b/w Illustration. Good+ J No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" In original green cloth with gilt spine titling, 8vo, 320pp+ads. (shelfwear and rubbing to outer cloth, inner hinges cracking, browning to edges). A vintage tale.
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Very Good. Blindstamped red cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. 320 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Engraved first title page. Frontis and eight additional full page engravings. Generallyy very good, 1855 Christmas gilt inscription front free endpaper; slightly cocked and with heavy foxing to the first several and last several leaves, corner stain to the title page.
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