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Author	Smith,W. Percy (illustrated by Paul Hardy)
Title	PEACOCKS or What Little Hands Can Do
PlacePub	London
Publisher	Blackie
Date	1899 by prize inscription & British Library)
Illustrations	Plates (2) by Paul Hardy.
Description	Octavo blue art nouveau cloth gilt titles (tips rubbed) 176pp +32p pictorial publisher's catalogue including long G.A. Henty list + other similar boy's adventure writers (Collingwood, Ascott Hope, Manville Fenn etc.) Honoris Causa Presentation inscription to Willie Brumby Xmas '99 on Front end paper. *Three Children who have to be sent away due to smallpox epidemic go to a farm where they endeavour to earn some money to help their brother. After difficulties there is success and they learn to work together. WITH THE VERY RARE onion skin advert flier for the the book giving a summary laid in.
Booknumber	J69135
Price	Price: GBP 10.00 or USD 12.00
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