PERIL & HEROISM.
Pp. [148], coloured frontispiece and 2 plates, pictorial title page printed in reddish/brown & black, several black & white text illustrations (one full page); small cr. 4to; pictorial red papered boards, lettered and decorated in yellow, black & white, slightly soiled and foxed, edges lightly rubbed, tiny triangular surface chip near bottom fore-corner of upper board, the spine slightly faded; small cr. 4to; school prize bookplate (dated 1929) on the upper pastedown, the endpapers slightly offset, name pinpricked within 'This Book belongs to' section on first page, scattered foxing; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, 1917. Reprinted. *Includes 'The Black Sheep. A Tale of a Tasmanian Sheep Station' by Captain Charles Gilson. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and Charles James Lestrange (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 #172336
Price: $40.00