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Where Flies the Flag

Where Flies the Flag

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Where Flies the Flag

by Harbour, Henry

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London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1920. No date; circa 1920. Rare material; out-of-print version featuring single color frontispiece. This later printing followed the 1904 Arthur Rackham illustrated edition. Measures 4 3/4" x 6 7/8". Brick red ruled boards w/blindstamped borders, black stamped spine titles, moderate cover, corner wear. Front cover features blindstamped circular cameo of boy's diligent profile surrounded ruled borders. Classic antiquarian bookplate w/ornate borders and red stamp inside cover: "Wesleyen Methodist Sunday School, Prize Awarded to George Ingram, 100 Attendances during 1920". Frontispiece painting features boy shaking captain's hand: "He arrived in a much less exhausted condition than this friend". Pages near fine, moderate toning. String-bind good, intact. Near very good example of this classic volume. Chapter contents: "George Payne arrives at Montreal; Going A-Sugaring; At Teulon; Farming and Hunting; In which we are introduced to New People; Jokers and Sleepers; A Narrow Shave; A Start for the Klondike; Over the Chilcoot Pass; Getting the Gold; A regular Broncho Buster; With the Mounted Rifles; On to Pretoria; A Slim Trick; Old Friends, Good News, and a Camp Fire; In which the Story returns to Harold; A Man Overboard; Hunting and Hunted; The Stowaway; Harold and the Stowaway are Missing; A Battle for Life; Discovered by Good Samaritans; Mysterious Words; 'Forty Winks' and what they brought; The Bushranger's Prisoner; The Mutiny of the Mermaid; and, The Ends of the Threads." This title is part of a series Collins’ Clear Type Press published, which included biographies of ‘the Lives of Men and Women who have achieved fame by the services they have rendered to their country or to mankind’. Other series titles include ‘The Icy North’ by Henry Harbour with biographies of Arctic explorers Sir John Franklin and Fridtjof Nansen, ‘Peerless Women’ and ‘Old Sea Dogs’. Printed by William Collins, Sons, and Co., Ltd., London and Glasgow. 286 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
021274
Title
Where Flies the Flag
Author
Harbour, Henry
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Collins' Clear-Type Press
Place of Publication
London and Glasgow
Date Published
1920
Size
12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Weight
0.00 lbs

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