ISLAND BORN: A TALE OF HAWAII (Prewar edition in dustwrapper)

Edité par Blackie & Son Limited, London, 1930

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Undated - circa 1930. The book was first published in 1921. With four black and white illustrations including frontispiece by Leo Bates. ***Very good in grey cloth-covered boards with black titles and illustrations to the spine and front board. The boards are clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Page block edges clean - just slightly foxed on the fore-edge. Slight reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good, with a contemporaneous owner's name and address in ink on the front free endpaper - 'Ida Brown, Rosederne 132 Melton Rd, West Bridgford, Nottingham.' Also, a period bookseller's label on the back pastedown: 'Sisson & Parker, Booksellers & Stationers, Nottingham'. Slight offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise pages clean - paper stock just slightly tanned. ***In a good original colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has quite a large area of loss at the head of the spine, with some loss of the lettering. A smaller area of loss to the tail of the spine. Scuff patch to the front panel. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Tiny nicks to bottom edge of the back panel, which is also a bit discoloured (being a white background). Colour illustrations to the spine and front board still bright. ***192mm x 132mm. 256 pages. ***'A girl braves an erupting volcano to prove that her deceased father was innocent of stealing bonds from his company.' ***'Bessie Marchant (1862-1941) was a prolific English writer of adventure novels featuring young female heroines. She published most of her work under the name Bessie Marchant, but occasionally published as Bessie Marchant Comfort or Mrs J.A. Comfort, and a few books for boys, published under the name John Comfort, are attributed to her. Despite never leaving England herself, she wrote close to 150 novels set in locations around the world.' (Wiki)***'A vast expanse of grey lava, wave upon wave, like petrified summer sea, stretched on all sides almost as far as eye could reach. This was pahoehoe, or satin rock. It was quite possible to travel over it, and later on, when years had passed, it would become so softened and changed by sun and rain and air that it might be a fruitful region once more, producing palms and bananas, with plantations of kalo and yams. Just now the only signs of vegetation to be seen were groups of ti-trees here and there where the lava had cracked, a carpeting of ferns along the courses of those same cracks, and the grim-looking sisal agave, which was something like an aloe, and seemed to flourish in those ungenial surroundings.' (Quote extract taken from page 42, Chapter IV: A Surprise). ***An early 1930s edition, hard to find complete in its original fragile, colour-illustrated dustwrapper and original colour illustrated boards. Of interest to collectors of Bessie Marchant and classic children's books. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.***.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
ISLAND BORN: A TALE OF HAWAII (Prewar edition in dustwrapper)
Auteur
Bessie Marchant
Éditeur
Blackie & Son Limited, London
Année de publication
1930
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Illustrateur
Leo Bates
Édition
5th or later Edition
Catalogues du vendeur
Children's Literature, Illustrated Books

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