KOBO: A Story of the Far East.
Pp. 370, coloured frontispiece, plus 6 black & white plates (including 2 maps), glossary; cr. 8vo; beige pictorial cloth, lettered in black and decorated in red & black, with the gilt crest of St. Thomas Grammar School stamped on upper board near bottom fore-corner, the boards a trifle soiled, spine slightly faded; school prize bookplate (dated 1925 and stamped with recipient's name) on upper free endpaper, hinges tender at a couple of points, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, 1922. New edition. *With publisher's publicity sheet (printed in red & black) loosely inserted. First published in 1905. Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of George Herbert Ely (1866-1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867-1947), staff members of Oxford University Press. Together they wrote and edited numerous stories for boys and (under the name 'Mrs. Herbert Strang') girls. Item #172653
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