Books with title The Bobbsey Twins In the Great West

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Hardcover; 244 pages; 1917; Grosset & Dunlap. The ninth book in the Bobbsey Twins series. Printed in the 1916-1925 G&D format. Cloth cover originally very light green with fine weave. Blank endpapers. Tipped-in frontispiece, plus 3 additional illustrations on glossy stock. Post-text ads include The Moving Picture Girls 1-7; the Bunny Brown Series 1-5; the Bobbsey Twins 1-8; The Moving Picture Boys 1-8; plus others. Possibly first edition; certainly an early edition.

Excerpt: ... a little later they were on their way to Battery Park in a Broadway street car, that ran on the ground. "We've ridden under the ground in the subway, over the ground in the elevated and now we're riding on the ground," said Nan. "New York is a funny place!" The Aquarium, as those of you know who have seen it, is in the round, brown stone building, on a point of land almost the very end of the island of Manhattan. It is where the North and East rivers come together to form New York Bay, and, years ago, this building was where the immigrants, or people who came to the United States from other countries, were kept for a while until they could be sent out West, or down South, or wherever they wanted to go. Now it is a place where many fish, big, little, ugly and beautiful, are shown in tanks of water so the boys and girls can see what strange things are in the ocean, rivers and lakes of this world. Led by Mr. Bobbsey, Bert and Nan, with Flossie and Freddie trailing on behind, walked around the big building, looking in the glass tanks wherein swam the fish. "What's over there?" asked Freddie, pointing to where a crowd of people were standing near some pools in the middle of the floor. "Oh, different big fish

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