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London : Bickers & Son, [1918]. First edition : the London issue of the American sheets. Thirty-six tales of inspiring bravery, ancient and modern, grouped under the headings of "Facing Death to Avoid It", "The Treasure-Seekers", "Soldiers Who Knew No Fear", "Some Exploits of the Sea", and "Famous Deeds of Discipline", with individual chapter titles such as, "How an Artist Outwitted a Pope", "A Great Novelist among the Corsairs", etc. Post 8vo (197 x 129mm). xii,420pp. Sixteen plates. Bound in a handsome full prize tree calf, by Bickers & Son, banded and gilt, with the arms of Guy Henry Fisher-Rowe (1877-1946) of St. David's School, Reigate, on the upper cover; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; just a hint of rubbing, but a very good copy indeed. School prize-label dated 1930, signed by Fisher-Rowe, and made out to W. G. Peck of the Lower Third.
The Book Of Bravery: Being True Stories In An Ascending Scale Of Courage by Henry Wysham Lanier - 1918
by Henry Wysham Lanier
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The Book Of Bravery: Being True Stories In An Ascending Scale Of Courage
by Henry Wysham Lanier
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Bickers & Son Ltd, 1918. Hardback. Very Good. First UK edition hardback, 1918, with no jacket as issued. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - brown cloth boards, half bound in brown leather with gilt school crest to front, are clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears almost unopened - hinges sound. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - school prize plate to front pastedown dated 1930; toning to page-ends but text, marbled endpapers and illustrations bright and clear throughout. A particularly handsome copy. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
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