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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Two very smart, first edition short story anthologies, illustrated by Arthur Rackham and William H. C. Groome. Two first editions. Bound in the original publisher's red and green pictorial variant bindings. Brains & Bravery illustrated with a frontispiece and a further seven, monochrome plates by Arthur Rackham. Hazard and Heroism illustrated with a frontispiece and a further seven, monochrome plates by William Henry Charles Groome. With a fourty-eight pages of publisher's advertisements bound to the rear. Collated, complete. Each work is a collection of thrilling adventure tales. With nine tales overall contributed by adventure fiction author, George Alfred Henty. Others produced by Australian novelist Guy Boothby (1867-1905); L. T. Meade [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith]; John Arthur Barry (1850-1911); and Henry Anderson Bryden, among others. Brains with early illustrations by the Golden Age book illustrator, Arthur Rackham. Hazard and Heroism with artwork by British lanscape watercolourist, William Henry Charles Groome. Bound in the original publisher's variant bindings.Externally, very smart. With marginal bumping to extremities and joints with ever so slight loss to cloth. The odd marks to boards. Some rubbing to gilt. Mild darkening to extremities and back strip. Bookseller's embossed stamp to front free of Brains. A bookseller label to paste down of Hazard. Ink inscriptions to verso of Brains and half title of Hazard. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, if a touch age toned. The odd spot. Faint spotting and dusting to fore edge of Brains. Very Good. Arthur Rackham; William Henry Charles Groome (illustrator). book.…