Buy this book on-line AVERY, HAROLD: : THE MARLCOT MYSTERYLONDON.WARD,LOCK & CO.,LIMITED,1935. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,thick 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG+. FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Matt,colour pictorial artwork by Frank Marston,illustrated front panel - illustration repeated from an internal b/w illus,and ubiquitously darkened spine/ backstrip with colour illustration detail and red+black lettering to both,rear panel wih darkened white background with blue ink lettered publisher's advert for 'The TOWER SERIES' of copyright gift books; some negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing with fold-overs to some,to edges and corners.Some minimal creasing,3 of 4 corner tips rubbed with some miniscule loss,small closed splits at both head+foot of spine/backstrip's front gutter,some minimal cresing,chipping to head with small loss,top,rear and top front gutters each with small missing portions - no other major nicks,tears or splits,but still approx. 99% present.Top+fore-edges bright and fairly clean with very faint and very minimal sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean with very minimal foxing - majority of text body foxing-free,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original taupe cloth bds with bright,crisp,black ink illustration to front with black ink lettering,similar lettering to spine/ backstrip,rear board/cover plain and undecorated but with some light,but sporadic mottling to it's lower edge,plain white pastedowns immaculate,but verso+ recto of front+rear free endpapers respectively,each with a narrow band of off-set shadowing from dw/dj's inner flaps.UK,thick 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7- 255pp [paginated] includes contents list table,XXIII (23) chapters,4 b/w illustrations by Frank Marston - frntis included,interspersed throughout the text and the book - all called for and present, plus [unpaginated] blank,half-title,b/w illustrated frntis,and title page.
Harold Avery (1867–1943) was an English author of children's literature,who wrote school stories for both boys and girls.
Basil Severn and Dick Ferris,his school friend,bored in the holidays,receive permission to fish in the lake at Marlcot Hall,a deserted mansion in the neighbourhood.While fishing,they take it into their heads to look over the Hall,and find a curious steel spike which completely puzzles them.From then on they have no chance of being bore,for the holiday becomes filled to the brim with excitement and adventure.
Another uncommonly presentable item,this example has survived exceptionally well, particularly with the dw/dj's protection - particularly in respect to the book,and unusually,without the usual major discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a children's book of this age.
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