![]() Buy this book on-line BRERETON**, LT.-COL, F[rederick] S[adleir]: : WITH ALLENBY IN PALESTINELONDON.BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,but diagonal price-clip to dw/dj, but publisher's black ink stamp 3/6 NET adjacent to clip of front inner,lower corner of dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy,colour pictorial artwork by Frank Gillet,with black lettering,to illustrated front panel and the ubiquitously sunned spine/backstrip,rear panel with slightly grubbed,rubbed white background with blue lettered publisher's advert for other Boys' and Girls' books,but still approx. 99% present.Top+fore-edges lightly toned with faint,sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean - light, sporadic foxing/spotting commensurate with book's age,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,virtually spotless and blemish free,publisher's original light green cloth boards/covers with darker green triple-lined edged border to front with similar coloured lettering and a foliage sprig decoration, similar coloured lettering to spine/ backstrip,rear board/cover plain and undecorated,corner tips minisculaly bumped as are both head and foot of spine/ backstrip.No nicks,tears of splits present and clean eps,both hinges solid and sound without any tears,splits or cracking.UK, 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,5+9-287pp [paginated] includes contents list/table, XX (20) chapters,4 b/w illus by Frank Gillet inludes frntis - all called for and present,plus [unpaginated] foxed verso+ recto to half-title,foxed verso of b/w illustrated frntis,foxed title page,and an illustrations list/table.
An uncommonly presentable item,this example has survived exceptionally well, particularly with dw/dj and unusually, without the usual major discolouration and other imperfections usually encountered or expected in a children's book of this age.
Frederick Sadleir Brereton,CBE,b. 5th August,1872 – d. 12th August,1957, was a decorated soldier and the author of boys' books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.Brereton was a prolific author,in his lifetime,he had written somer 40-odd books.
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