THE BIG BOOK FOR BOYS.
Pp. [192], coloured frontispiece and 3plates, black & white pictorial title page and text illustrations (some full page), pictorial endpapers; small cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and silverfished, spine quite faded; faint signs of removal of small sticker from upper free endpaper, bookseller's stamp on recto of frontispiece, hinges starting at a couple of points, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, London, 1928. *Contributors include Richard Bird, E. Keble Chatterton, Walter Rhoades, a.o. Herbert Strang was the joint 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 #173512
Price: $45.00