Where Flies the Flag

London and Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1922. Circa 1922 edition. Rare material; out-of-print version featuring single color frontispiece. This later printing followed the 1904 Arthur Rackham illustrated edition. Measures 5 1/2" x 7 3/4". Red w/green and violet floral-like patterned cover and spine, black stamped cover and spine titles on green fields, some shelf wear, rub, discoloration. Brightly colored frontispiece painting features British expeditionary officer holding binoculars w/variety of soldiers in b.g.: "Outposts of Empire." Leaves generally good, varying toning. Aqua monochromatic endpapers of boy and girl gazing on scene of knight and dame on horse, native w/settler, and castle in hilly b.g. Light blue printed prize plate inside cover: "1922. st. Mark's Parish Sunday Schools. 1st Prize Presented to 'Willis Rose' For Good Attendance, 'Mr. C. J. Tyler,' Superintendant Mr. J. Shoemake, Secretary Rev. W. J. E. Jones, Vicar. Trerise, Printer, Swansea". String-bind good, intact. Solid example of this classic volume with unique frontis. 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. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.