Once Upon a Time: The Boys Book of Adventures

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Religious Tract Society
Publication Year:	0
Publication Place:	London (56 Paternoster Row and St Paul's Churchyard)
Book ID:	000257
Catalogue(s):	Decorative and Pictorial Bindings ◇ Children's Books - Vintage

Not dated but likely c1905. 320pp. Mon chrome plate frontispiece & 14 further b/w plate illustrations. Orange cloth-covered pictorial boards, illustrated on front and spine; gilt titles. Both free endpapers missing, otherwise a neat and tight volume. Light spotting throughout. Slightly soiled boards rubbed at edges and rounded at corners; beginning to fray at head & heel of spine. Large 12mo. A collection of adventure stories for boys by various, unnamed authors, all of which had previously appeared in the magazine, Leisure Hour.

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