From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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8vo. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. [xii] + 242 + [2] pp. Bound in original pictorial red cloth with black titles. Light wear to extremities and some foxing largely confined to margins and edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 plates of drawings by Arthur Rackham, including frontispiece. A humorous novel of naval life by Major William Price Drury (1861-1949) who served in the Royal Marines, 1880-1902 and again during the First World War. A novelist and playwright, his works, mostly on a naval theme, were published, 1893-1939. His most famous play, The Flag Lieutenant was filmed several times and he coined the phrase, 'Tell it to the Marines', in an early work, The Tadpole of an Archangel in 1898. A scarce work, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. ART / LITERATURE RACKHAM LIT. FICTION NAVAL ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY ART / LITERATURE A New Bibliography of Arthur Rackham, p. 61. Seller Inventory # 24809
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE PERADVENTURES OF PRIVATE PAGETT. By ...
Publisher: Chapman and Hall, Ld., London
Publication Date: 1904
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