Cheerful – Daring – Wonderful Ching-Ching [With:] The Wild Adventures of Jam Josser & Eddard Cutten at Home and Abroad.

[London: W. Lucas (?), ca. 1890].

Price: $400.00


About the item

Weekly penny parts. Illustrated. 531 [1, ad]; 368 pp., text in double columns. 2 vols. 8vo. Half maroon morocco, green morocco spine labels, lightly rubbed, paper brittle with some closed tears, penny part titles trimmed with some loss, vol. I ad leaf repaired, bookplate; very good. Ono 153, 180; James & Smith 91, 92, 122, 123.

Item #242224

A collection of Ching-Ching adventures from “the boys’ Charles Dickens,” Edward Burrage (1839-1916). Ching-Ching rivaled the popularity the Victorian-era boys’ adventure hero Jack Harkaway.