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HENTY**, G[eorge] A[lfred]: : ON THE IRRAWADDY: A STORY OF THE FIRST BURMESE WAR

LONDON.BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED,1897.

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UK,Crown 8vo HB,1st edn.[The practice by the British Museum of dating all books when first catalogued was most helpful.But the loss of records and and books in the 1941 London bombing air raids of WW2 (which also destroyed Blackie's "50 Old Bailey" so common on Henty title pages) was an irreparable misfortune and loss.] VG++.Well travelled example,as 2 diverse ownership names+locations: owner's name+ Geneve,25 Dec,1900 and 2nd owner's pressed ownership stamp: name+Medio Drive,Los Angeles,Calif.90049 to plain grey-green front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered - but with ubiquitous but miniscule rubbing - publisher's original colour+gilt decorated light blue/grey cloth covered boards.Front with decoration of a Burman with a knife and six other swimming men,with white sails sailing ship in background and bright,crisp,stamped gilt lettered title and author,title superimposed on ship's white sails.Bright,crisp,clean,spine/ backstrip decorated with gilt+coloured decoration group of Burmese men (4) in a gilt bordered panel; sailing ship at top, with bright,crisp,stamped gilt title superimposed across white sails and author's name ink printed to foot of spine /backstrip.The forward obliques,i.e. /,in the following title page description, are used to indicate a blank space or line between the preceding and following written words.Title page: On the Irrawaddy/A Story of/The First Burmese War/By/G. A. Henty/Author of (list of titles - 6)/line/With eight illusrations by W. H. Overend/line/publisher's device/ London/Blackie & Son,Limited,50 Old Bailey,E.C./Glasgow and Dublin/1897. Contents: 5 x 7.1/2 inches (Crown 8vo),Grey-green endpapers,half-title with Blackie's list of Henty titles to verso, b/w illustration frntis,title page (as above and already described,a preface, separate contents and illustrations lists/tables,vipp+12-352pp [paginated] comprising 18 chapters and 32pp [paginated] publisher's b/w illustrated catalogue at rear.All pages' edges burnished olivine.Contents generally though,bright,tight,clean,solid and sound; tight hinges,with minimal foxing/spotting in text body.Some minimal foxing/spotting to top edge of half-title page with,and to the list of Henty titles and the recto of frntis too. "Stanley Brook's pluck is even greater than his luck,and he is precisely the boy to hearten with emulation the boys who read his stirring story.' - Saturday Review. Since April 2013 and again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! Please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,Crown 8vo HB,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

HENTY, G.A : On the Irrawaddy. A Story of the First Burmese War

Blackie & Son

Early Printing. An undated early reprint of this late Henty title first published in 1897. The book bears a prize label inside front board, dated 1906. Very good indeed in the original dark grey pictorial cloth, light wear to extremities, the internal joints uncracked

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