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Books in the American genre:

The Circus and All About It (1909)

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The circus in all its glory.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (1909)

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A satirical look at the afterlife. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Mark Twain
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering

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Mike Flannery on Duty and Off (1909)

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Three further adventures of the literal-minded manager of the Westcote express office. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Gustavus C. Widney

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The Prodigious Hickey (1909)

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The first of the boarding school stories set at Lawrenceville in the era after the end of caning, when “between masters and students there was an armed and exceedingly wary neutrality.” Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): May Wilson Preston
Henry Raleigh
Frederic Dorr Steele

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Robinson Crusoe (1909)

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The first of the desert island castaway adventures. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Susanna and Sue (1909)

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Susanna leaves her neglectful husband to stay with the Shakers, and manages to shake him up. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
Illustrator(s): Alice Barber Stephens
N. C. Wyeth

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Boy Scouts of America: Official Handbook (1910)

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The ‘Original” edition of the Boy Scouts of America Handbook was written by E. T. Seton, using some of the material from R. Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. Read for free online at the E. T. Seton Institute.... View More

Author(s): Robert Baden-Powell
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Robert Baden-Powell

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The Emerald City of Oz (1910)

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Aunt Em and Uncle Henry have joined Dorothy in Oz. While they are enjoying a tour of their new home, the evil Nome King is tunneling under the Deadly Desert in his scheme to conquer the Emerald City. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

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An Experiment in Gyro-Hats (1910)

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In which a new and original top hat helps the course of true love to run smooth. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Albert Levering

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The Farm Book: Bob and Betty Visit Uncle John (1910)

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Two children spend from plow time to first snow on a farm when everything was still done by hand and horse. Read online at BPL.

Author(s): E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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A Gentleman of Leisure (1910)

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A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true lo... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

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The Humming Bird (1910)

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A collection of stories, mainly about baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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The Intrusion of Jimmy (1910)

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A wealthy New York batchelor falls in love on an Atlantic crossing. While burgling a house to fulfill a bet, he meets the girl again. A year later their paths cross in England and he proposes, but as P.G. Wodehouse is in charge, the course of true lo... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): None

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L. Frank Baum’s Juvenile Speaker (1910)

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An anthology taken from previously published works.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Maginel Wright Enright
John R. Neill

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Last of the Mohicans (1910)

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In this second volume in the Leatherstocking Tales, we meet Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook as they rescue two young British women. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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The Last of the Mohicans (1910)

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This, the second book in the Leatherstocking Tales, is again set in New York during the French and Indian War. Uncas is the titular Mohican. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): James Fenimore Cooper
Illustrator(s): E. Boyd Smith

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Lost Endeavour (1910)

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Charles Harding is shanghaied and sold as an indentured servant in America, then escapes to the Carribbean. The frontispiece was used as the dust jacket illustration. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): Stephen Reid

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The Varmint (1910)

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Adventures at a boys’ boarding school - more football than baseball. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Owen Johnson
Illustrator(s): F. R. Gruger

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The Water Goats and Other Troubles (1910)

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Three stories including ‘The Water Goats,’ ‘Mr. Billing’s Pockets,’ and ‘Our First Burglar.’ Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): Harrison Cady
Irma Dérèmeaux
Gustavus C. Widney

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The Adventures of a Suburbanite (1911)

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A move to the country allows the narrator to garden to his heart's content -- and more. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Ellis Parker Butler
Illustrator(s): A. B. Phelan

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