Language: English
Published by The Sunday Schook Union, London
Seller: C & J Read - Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Eighth Thousand. Not Dated (c.1880s) pp 191. Illustrated with 8 engravings. Patterned endpapers. Pictorial cloth with faint ring mark on rear board. Free endpapers browned with 25p written in top corner of front endpaper. Page edges and margins browned. A Good Tight Copy.
Hardcover. Condition: Good Reading Hardback. 200 pages- embossed & gilt decorated cover & spine. Front blank end page removed & presentation sticker inside front cover. Clean pages. 'A Story for Boys'.
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, London etc.
Seller: Stoneman Press, York, YK, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very nice, clean copy of this [1920] 'Blue Star Series' edition, first published in 1890. Charmingly illustrated boards in excellent clean condition with spotting to the page edges.The text block itself is free of foxing / discolouration. Normal 8vo novel size. Attractive Wesleyan Methodist presentation label to Philis Boyd. Four-colour illustrations. Clean throughout on soft white paper with no signs of use apart from slight movement to title-page inner edge; firm, square, tight binding. Scarce dust-jacket with what looks like an attempt at 3D printing on the front cover but may be just faulty register of blue/green. Clean and unclipped (2/6) the scarce wrapper is a little ragged with small tears to spine area top and tail. Hull bookseller label. "The spiritual life may and should go on steadily broadening and deepening like a river on its way from mountains to the sea. 30% price reduction applied.