THE BIG BOOK FOR BOYS.
Pp. [192], coloured frontispiece and 3 plates, black & white title page vignette and text illustrations, pictorial endpapers printed in brown; cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled, edges lightly worn; school prize bookplate (dated 1931) on upper free endpaper, the endpapers lightly offset, hinges starting at a few points, scattered foxing; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, 1926. *Contributors include Leslie Beresford, Richard Bird, Gunby Hadath, Walter Rhoades, a.o. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867-1947), who were both staff members of Oxford University Press. Together they wrote and edited numerous stories for boys and (under the name 'Mrs. Herbert Strang') girls. Item #172315
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