"Fighting The Battle; or, Dick And Daisy's City Life" by Adelaide Florence Samuels, illustrated, published by Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1872.
[Provenance: inscribed to the student by his teacher N.E. Pickett, 1875 on the front ep].

Hard boards, original cloth with decorated spine [soiling and wear: see photos]; 4" 6.1/8"; yellow endpapers [soiling], ink inscription dated '1875' on the front endpaper; frontispiece and extra engraved title page with a tissue guard; 109 pages + one plate, some soiling, a few page corner folds, good condition.

Newly orphaned, Dick and Daisy make their way to Boston, seeking a means to support themselves; there they are befriended by an elderly street musician called "Grandfather Milly"...

Adelaide Florence Samuels (Boston, 1845-?) was American teacher and author of children adventure books. Her first four volume series was Dick and Daisy, chronicle of the gradual rise of two orphaned siblings, Daisy and Dick Travers. It received a favorable review in Harper's Magazine. Samuels continued the characters' adventures in the next four books, Dick Travers Abroad series. A few years later, she published single volume "Daisy Travers; or, The Girls of Hive Hall" (1876). She also published several articles in juvenile periodicals, including at least two in St Nicholas in the late 1870s. In 1891, Adelaide Samuels married Orville Bassett in 1891. She published at least one work after her marriage, a collection of nursery rhymes titled "Father Gander's Melodies for Mother Goose's Grandchildren" (1894). According to "Woman's Who's Who of America from 1914-15," she was a member of the Civic Club and of the Guild and Grange.

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