Buy this book on-line MANNING**, OLIVIA: : THE SMUGGLERSLONDON.OUP,1962. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+ protected dw/dj,1st edn.
NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,no price- clip to protected dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated upper wrap,with b/w line illus+
publisher's advert to rear wrap.Though protected,there is some light creasing but no tears to rear bottom edge; negligible rubbing to top corners with head+foot of spine/backstrip showing some light creasing and bumping - but no tears.Top+ fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and clean with no internal foxing.
Original publisher's blue cloth boards with stamped silver gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and plain white endpapers with some offset foxing corresponding to dw/dj inner
flaps.UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn,1- 192pp includes b/w line illus half-title and frntis,b/w line illus chapter head- pieces and illus throughout the text,all by William Stobbs.
William Stobbs,b.1914 in South Shields, Co. Durham.Read History at Durham University.Head of design at the London College of Printing (1950-58).Principal of Maidstone College of Art (from 1958).He
has been a prolific illustrator since the early 1950's,and in much of his work combines striking decoration with convincing imagery.In 1959,he won the Kate Greenaway Medal with 'Kashtanka' - Anton Chekov and 'A Bundle of Ballads' - Ruth Manning-Sanders.He works in black and white (particularly in illustrations to children's novels) and full colour,and
has also made particularly effective use of restricted colour (e.g. red and black printing from half-tone plates) a development perhaps from the 1940's PUFFIN book tradition of two-colour lithographs. Whilst this title is the author's 6th novel,this is the second book of the author's,that he has illustrated.
The mystery begins on a foggy morning, one summer in the eighteenth century,when
the strange 'Roger Kappen' is thrown up on
the beach of a Cornish village,bound and gagged.There is something sinister about the newcomer; somehow he knows more than is safe about Squire Pellew's duck-pond; about the ponies galloping through the night with muffled hoofs; and,most ominous of all,he knows so much about the movements of the Excise-men that he might almost be in league with them.Strange things begin to happen,and Dick,who tells the story,begins to fear for the safety of the 'honest freetraders',and especially for his friend and hero,Zach Jewel,the bravest smuggler of them all.Then the secret raids of the Excise-men grow more frequent; two of the smugglers are thrown into prison;and three ships in succession are mysteriously wrecked.How Dick risks his life to solve the mystery and unmask the terrible identity of the villain makes
a fitting climax to this exciting story.
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