Smith, C[icely] Fox (1882-1954) illustrated by C. Walter Hodges
Title
THE SHIP AGROUND A tale of Adventure.
PlacePub
London
Publisher
Children's Book Club edition Oxford University Press
Date
1942
Illustrations
Fine text illustrations by C. Walter Hodges throughout the book, jacket illustartion of fearsome pirate and ship aground by M. Sims.
Description
Octavo cream cloth in torn and partly defective illustrated dust jacket (jacket neatly repaired, cloth darkened at edges by foxing and tanning) 221pp inc. half title, Title, contents leaf and illustration leaf. Former owner's name P.A. Thomson to fly leaf. *Neat tight boy's adventure story in rarely found wartime illustrated but defective dust jacket, which describes this book (on inner front flap) as follows: "The book derives its title from the name of a public house that stood on the riverside i9n Wapping a hundred and fifty years ago or thereabouts. That is where the hero spent his childhood, and that was his point of departure on a voyage in the best TREASURE ISLAND vein that carried him to the other side of the world and back".
Booknumber
J74796
Price
Price: GBP 14.00 or USD 17.00
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