Phil The Fiddler Horatio Alger Jr. 1903 Hurst and Company HC Young Street Musici

Phil The Fiddler Horatio Alger Jr. 1903 Hurst and Company HC Young Street Musician - Used with some wear and blemishes see pictures sold as is. Cover has stains (pen marks?) and wear. Inner cover and adjacent page have writing. Binding is coming loose. Stains throughout. Writing on page 15. Page 245 is scuffed. Pages are thick. Red cover (Image on cover and binding appears to have been used on several titles by this author) Book is Third volume in the Tattered Tom Series. Phil is an Italian boy enslaved by a padrone. 169 Pages published in 1903. 7.5" x 5" x 1" Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age.