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• The fur-seal's tooth; a story of Alaskan adventure (Harper & brothers, 1894), by Kirk Munroe, W. A. Rogers, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romany rye (J.M. Dent & Co.;, 1907), by George Borrow (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marie : an episode in the life of the late Allan Quatermain (McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1912), by H. Rider Haggard and Maurice Greiffenhagen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The master of Ballantrae. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Wiley and Putnam ; London : John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1846., 1846), by Herman Melville, Thomas B. Smith, R. Craighead's Power Press, John Murray (Firm), and Wiley & Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bears and dacoits : and other stories (Blackie and Son, in the 1900s), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Munchausen. (Noyes, Platt & company, 1901), by John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell, Geo. H. Walker & Co, Riggs Printing & Publishing Company, and Platt & Company Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rover boys in the jungle. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1899), by Edward Stratemeyer and W. B. Bridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle tales of Tarzan (Grosset & Dunlap, 1919), by Edgar Rice Burroughs and J. Allen St. John (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lost on Umbagog. (Lothrop, 1894), by Willis Boyd Allen and Lothrop Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Gardiner. (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916), by Robert Allen and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allan and the holy flower (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915), by H. Rider Haggard, Maurice Greiffenhagen, Quinn & Boden Company, and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lysbeth : a tale of the Dutch (New York ; London ; and Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901., 1901), by H. Rider Haggard, G. P. Jacomb Hood, and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• War of the little hand (London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1888., 1888), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rung ho! (G. Scribner's Sons, 1914), by Talbot Mundy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Librería Europea de Baudry, 1835), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, A. A. Everat, Theophilus Barrois, Nicolas-Jacques Truchy, Pierre-Fleurus Amyot, L. Baudry, and José Mor de Fuentes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The winds of the world (McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1917), by Talbot Mundy and Joseph Clement Coll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Away in the wilderness (The Mershon Co., 1800), by R. M. Ballantyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Sawyer (Harper & Bros., 1903), by Mark Twain and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• At the earth's core (Grosset & Dunlap, 1922), by Edgar Rice Burroughs and J. Allen St. John (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tom Sawyer abroad, Tom Sawyer, detective : and other stories, etc., etc. (Harper & Brothers, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The red one (The Macmillan Company, 1918), by Jack London and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Omoo; a narrative of adventures in the South Seas (Constable and company, ltd., 1922), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tarzan the terrible. (A. C. McClurg, 1921), by Edgar Rice Burroughs and J. Allen St. John (page images at HathiTrust)
• The glimpse; an adventure of the soul (D. Appleton and company, 1909), by Arnold Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little by little; or, The cruise of the Flyaway : a story for young folks (Lee and Shepard ;, 1888), by Oliver Optic (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the queen's mercy (Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1897), by Mabel Fuller Blodgett, Hy. Sandham, and Henry Sandham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The green hand : adventures of a naval lieutenant : a sea story for boys (G. Routledge, 1879), by George Cupples (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry Ashton; a thrilling story and how the famous cooperative commonwealth was established in Zanland. (The author, 1915), by R. A. Dague (page images at HathiTrust)
• The white waterfall : an adventure story (W. R. Caldwell, 1912), by James Francis Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the Mississippi (Hurst ;, 1886), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ned on the river (H. T. Coates, 1884), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and Henry T. Coates & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Down the Mississippi. (Stitt publishing co., 1905), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and Stitt Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost trail (Hurst & company, 1911), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and Hurst & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contraband; a romance of the North Atlantic. (A.L. Burt, 1916), by Randall Parrish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Off to the geysers; or, The young yachters in Iceland. As recorded by "Wade" [pseud.] (J. R. Osgood and company, 1872), by C. A. Stephens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A campfire girl's chum (Saalfield Pub. Co., 1914), by Jane L. Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Antifer (R.F. Fenno, 1895), by Jules Verne and R.F. Fenno & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Footprints in the forest (John C. Winston Co., 1886), by Edward Sylvester Ellis and American Popular Literature Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• David Balfour : being memoirs of his adventures at home and abroad. The second part (C. Scribner's sons, 1900), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• ʻCaptains courageous' : a story of the Grand Banks (Macmilllan and Co. ;, 1897), by Rudyard Kipling, I. W. Taber, I W Taber, R. & R. Clark (Firm), and Macmillan & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prisoner of Zenda : being the history of three months in the life of an English gentleman (Henry Holt, 1894), by Anthony Hope and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los náufragos del Spitzberg (Saturnino Calleja Fernandez, in the 1880s), by Emilio Salgari and Antonio Jimenez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three musketeers. (Little, Brown & co., 1900), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• We and the world : a book for boys (Roberts Brothers, 1880), by Juliana Horatia Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mystery of the Laughing mask (Cupples and Leon company, 1940), by Mildred A. Wirt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The young naval captain, or, The war of all nations (Thompson & Thomas, 1902), by Ralph Bonehill and Thompson & Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boy land boomer (Saalfield Pub. Co., 1907), by Ralph Bonehill and William Thomas Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Secret of the island cave (Grosset & Dunlap, 1908), by Roy Rockwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les aventures d'un jeune colon (Saigon : Claude & Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs, 1902., 1902), by Petit-Gilles and F. Bélardy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Over there with the engineers at Cambrai (Chicago : M.A. Donohue & Company, [1920], 1920), by G. Harvey Ralphson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bosom friends : a seaside story (Thomas Nelson and Sons, in the 1910s), by Angela Brazil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Story of the Afghan War (T. Nelson, 1900), by William Johnston (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Peep at Polynesian life (New York : Harper & Brothers, Publishers ; London : John Murray, 1849., 1849), by Herman Melville, John Murray (Firm), and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• In our time : stories (J. Cape, 1926), by Ernest Hemingway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Typee, a narrative of the Marquesas Islands (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1921), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The wrecker (C. Scribner's Sons, 1891), by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daughter of the sun, a tale of adventure (Grosset & Dunlap, 1921), by Jackson Gregory and Grosset & Dunlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quả dưa đỏ : phiêu-lưu tiểu-thuyết (Hanoi : Nam Hùng, 1927., 1927), by Trọng Thuật Nguyẽ̂n (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The three musketeers. (Little, Brown and co., 1889), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ravenshoe (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894), by Henry Kingsley and Margaret Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The three musketeers (Little, Brown, 1900), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The march of the White guard (R. F. Fenno & company, 1902), by Gilbert Parker, William Edward Bloomfield Starkweather, and R.F. Fenno & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fortunat und seine Söhne. (Fischer & Franke, 1910), by Franz Stassen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• We and the world (Little, Brown, 1899), by Juliana Horatia Ewing and W. L. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Florida lads : and, For king or congress (Saalfield Pub. Co., 1903), by William Perry Brown and Saalfield Pub. Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe. (Houghton Mifflin, 1909), by Daniel Defoe and E. Boyd Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The riddle of Three-Way Creek, by Ridgwell Cullum (Gutenberg ebook)
• The further adventures of Zorro, by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Somewhere south in Sonora : A novel, by Will Levington Comfort (Gutenberg ebook)
• The adventures of Hatim Taï, a romance, ed. by William Rounseville Alger, trans. by Duncan Forbes (Gutenberg ebook)

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