THE BOYS AT MENHARDOC: A Story of Cornish Nets and Mines.
With six full-page illustrations by C. J. Staniland. Pp. 352+16 (publisher's catalogue), black & white frontispiece and 5 plates; cr. 8vo; pictorial red cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in pale green, blue, white & black, slightly flecked, edges a trifle rubbed; school prize bookplate (dated 1912) on upper free endpaper, faint name stamp at head of half-title page, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Blackie and Son Limited, London, 1911. New edition. *Originally published as Menhardoc in 1885. George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) was a prolific author, journalist and editor, whose last book was a biography of his famous peer, George Alfred Henty. Item #174812
Price: $45.00