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The Ferry House Girls: An Australian Story
by Bessie Marchant
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Blackie & Son, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: W. R. S. Scott. grey end-papers; bound in blue cloth with pictorial front cover & spine in black, white & brown; gilt titles front & spine; monochrome frontis. illustration by W. R. S. Scott with five more throughout; loosely inserted summary of the plot: "Vic and Lu were the motherless daughters of an Australian farmer, who kept the ferry at the Blue River ford. When their father was away, the girls ran off with the wool wagons, to save them from being fired by bushrangers; Vic also endeavouring to save a box containing her father's money, but taking by mistake a similar box, filled with valuable papers belonging to a friend who was under a cloud. Unfortunately, she lost the box, and, lacking his papers, her friend had to undergo much inconvenience and hardship - though the worst of the happenings fell to Vic, who needed all her courage to face the situations resulting from the disaster. In the end, however, through her bravery in saving the life of the only person who can clear her friend, everything comes right, the missing box turning up at an unexpected moment." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 283 pages. Some wear to top & bottom of spine and slight loss of brightness due to damp or splash of liquid. Previous owner's signature in ink inside front cover dated 1912. All edges blue. Moderate splash damage & staining to rear cover, contents unaffected. Illustrator: W. R. S. Scott. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Adventure Novels; Pictorial Bindings; Girls' Stories; Australia; 1900-1920; Fiction. Inventory No: 4051. .
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- Bookseller
- Bookbarrow
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4051
- Title
- The Ferry House Girls: An Australian Story
- Author
- Bessie Marchant
- Illustrator
- W. R. S. Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1912
- Keywords
- BZDB227 Children/Childrens/Fiction/Girls' Stories/Adventure Novels/Pictorial Bindings/Bessie Marchant Children; Adventure Novels; Pictorial Bindings; Girls' Stories; Australia; 1900-1920; Fiction. W. R. S. Scott Unbranded Bessie Marchant The Fer
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