TOM BURNABY: A story of Uganda and the great Congo Forest.
Pp. 368, coloured frontispiece, plus 7 black & white plates (including 3 plans); cr. 8vo; beige pictorial cloth, lettered in black and decorated in red & black, a trifle soiled, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised, spine lightly faded;
bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed, the endpapers slightly offset, outer leaves and edges foxed; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, 1922. New edition. *First published in 1904? 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 #172656
Price: $50.00