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Ballantyne, Robert Michael (1825-1894) [info]. Snowflakes and sunbeams, or, The young fur traders: A tale of the far north. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1856.

Physical description: [2], 1 leaf, vi, 429 p., front., plates.; 18.5 cm.

Language: English

Ballantyne also provided the illustrations. Also published with this title, London: Ward, Lock, 1856 (vi, 429p.); London: Ward, Lock, 1856 (376p.); London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1857 (vi, 429p.); Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1859 ([2], 432p.); London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson, 1861 ([7], vi, 429p.); London: Nelson, 1863 (vi, 429p.); London: T. Nelson, 1865 (vi, 429p.); Toronto: Musson, s.d. (367p.); London: Ward, Lock, 1901 (376p.). Also published as The young fur-traders, or, snowflakes and sunbeams from the far north , Edinburgh: s.n., [1856?] (429p.); London & Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1856? (296p.); London & Toronto: T. Nelson, [1856?] (ix, 402p.); London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1856] (376p.); London: Ward, Lock, [1856?] (255p.); London: A. Dakers, [1856?] (187p.); illustrated by M. MacKinlay, London: Blackie & Son, [1856?] (280p.); Edinburgh: W.P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, [1856?] (367p.); London: Collins, [1856?] (316p.); [Canada?: s.n., 1856?] (429p.); London: W. & R. Chambers, [185-?] (397p.); London: Butterworth, [186-?] (367p.); London, Edinburgh, & New York: T. Nelson & Sons, 1861 ([7], vi, 429p.); London & Edinburgh: T. Nelson, 1881 (vi, 429p.); London: T. Nelson, 1886 (vi, 429p.); London: Walter Scott, [18--??] (367p.); London: W. & R. Chambers, [18--?] (397p.); London & Toronto: Ward, Lock, [189-?] (376p.); New York: E. Kaufmann, [189-?] (318p.); London: Nelson, 1890 (vi, 429p.); new edition, London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1893 ([6], 402p.); new edition, London: Nelson, 1894 (vi, 402p.); new edition, London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1896 (402p.); London: Nelson, 1897 (402p.); London: T. Nelson, 1899 (402p.); Toronto: Musson Book Co., [19--?] (xi, 367p.); illustrated by John E. Sutcliffe, London: Collin's Clear-Type Press, [19--?] (316p.); London: Nelson, 1901 (429p.); London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1901 (376p.); London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1901 (296p.); London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1901 (xi, 367p.); new edition, London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1905 (402p.); London: J.F. Shaw, [191-?] (319p.); London: T. Nelson, [192-?] (402p.); London: Oxford University Press, 1928 (254p.); London: H. Milford, 1930 (254p.); London: Humphrey-Milford, Oxford University Press, [1934] (254, [1]p.); London: Ward, Lock, [194-?] (255p.). Also published as Snowflakes and sunbeams from the far north, or, the young fur traders , London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1856 (vi, 429p.). Included in The coral island: The young fur traders , London: Octopus Books, 1979 (527p.). Chapters 1, 3, 6-9, and 31 from London: Nelson, 1905, are reprinted in Red River settlement , compiled by Helen Doherty, [Winnipeg: The Author, 1984] (xx, 505p.). This work is said to have been authorized as "supplementary English reading library selection" for Saskatchewan in grades 6 and up in 1922 and 1931 by the Saskatchewan Department of Education.

Subject headings:

• Children's literature
• Fiction

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