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London: Frederick Warne & Co. Poor with no dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner's signatures. Front board detached. Text block almost detached into sections. Spine missing.Some staining and marking to boards. Two large words written on rear board. ; (54) pages. Illustrated card boards. Full-page colour illustrations. Page dimensions: 225mm x 330mm. Each text page with facing colour illustration. "There were Jack and Sambo and little San Toy,/ A Mate, a cook, and a cabin boy,/ Red or black they were, or yellow,/ In colour unlike, yet each a good fellow,/ Although so varied in form and hue,/ In everything else, good men and true." - the introductory poem. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
AMAZING ADVENTURES by BARING-GOULD, S
by BARING-GOULD, S
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AMAZING ADVENTURES
by BARING-GOULD, S
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NEILSON, HARRY B.. PICTURE BOOK. AMAZING ADVENTURES by S. Baring Gould. London Skeffington & Son, no date [1903]. Oblong 13 1/4 x 9 1/8", 53p., cloth backed pictorial boards, corners worn and rear cover soiled else remarkably clean, tight and VG+. This is the tale of 3 shipwrecked sailors: Sambo - a stereotypical Black; San Toy - a stereotypical Chinese; and Jack - a British tar. Each page of text faces a fine, bold full page chromolithograph done by HARRY B. NEILSON showing the dilemmas and adventures these three get into. Due to its size, very few copies of this book have survived intact. A super book. Rare.
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Amazing Adventures
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